A job search is full of obstacles, from unresponsive HR departments to those annoying blind ads that don’t even tell you who the employer is. On top of the roadblocks that a job search imposes on us, here is one more that we create for ourselves: a dry-as-dust, boilerplate resume that sounds exactly like everyone ... - Read full post
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How To Evaluate A Job & Career Recruiter
Liz Ryan brought up a good point last week – corporate recruiting doesn’t often work the way it should. Reactions to corporate recruiting tend to range from “amazingly bad” to a “soul-sucking, dehumanizing experience from hell.” Everyone agrees that things could be done a lot better. But you can make it better.
How to Tell the ‘Story of You’ in A Job Interview: Part 1
So, you have gotten the interview that you desired and you know that you are going to be asked once, twice, maybe five or six times, some question that is like, “so, tell me about you”. You then have five to seven minutes to tell your story. When I interview people I usually give them ... - Read full post
Ten Reasons To Run From A Job Opportunity
One of the worst things that can happen to a talented job seeker is to get caught in the Vortex — that swirling, chaotic place where the hiring-process movement gets to be so fast and furious that it’s hard to keep up with it.
Turned Down For A Job? Decide If It’s Time For ‘Fight or Flight’
We all want to be wanted. And no matter, how we brush it off, it hurts when someone turns us down. We are confident enough in our own abilities and experiences that we expect that we will be desired for the jobs we interview. In any situation, especially a job interview, there is an amount ... - Read full post
How Important Are Your Friends In Finding Your Next Job?
A very close friend or mine acknowledges that four of the six jobs in his career came from me referring him to recruiters who had called me on the position and I passed my buddy’s contact information to them. Once a year, around the anniversary date of another friend’s hire date, I get a note ... - Read full post
Corporate Garanimals: How to Determine If A Company Is Right For You
I so wish that there would have been Garanimals when I was growing up. I would have been so much better dressed and think of all the consternation and worry that would be gone. It’s just a brilliant idea. As they say on their website, “Garanimals was founded on a simple but unique concept: to ... - Read full post
The Resume/Profile/CV Tsunami – Hit by the Talent Wave
I am consulting with global companies designing talent sourcing, assessment and delivery flow efficiencies to fill specific executive corporate positions around the world. And because of our current economic backdrop and the shared – aggregated dispersal of a position posted, tweeted or discussed the flow of talent qualified and unqualified is overwhelming.
Background Checking Your Next Boss
The first thing you need to know about your next boss is how badly she was hurt by the financial downturn. A boss who is deeply underwater is likely to behave differently than one who is not under the same financial pressure. Someone whose debts vastly exceed their ability to pay is likely to either ... - Read full post
The Job-Seeker’s Secret Weapon: It’s Pointed
I was having lunch with my friend Jane, a plainspoken sort. She asked, “Have you always been a career advisor?” “Heck no,” I said. “I was a corporate HR VP for ten million years.”
