Slate: “What Mistakes do Graduates Make…”
This is a thoughtful Q&A on mistakes graduates make in their first jobs with answers by Jason Ewing and Carson Tang from Quora and re-posted by Slate. I think I made a couple of these myself way back when. One [...]
read moreBusiness Insider: “How to Get Job Recruiters to Come to You”
I guess “5” is a magic number because so many of these lists have five items – though usually, one or two are redundant. Business Insider’s Jacquelyn Smith’s article “How to Get Job Recruiters to Come to You” contains a [...]
read moreAvailable Now: Modern Job Search on Kindle
For a limited time, Modern Job Search is available on Kindle at an introductory price of $2.99 (50% off the regular price). A little background: I’ve been a corporate headhunter for about 15 years. I’ve always focused on supply chain management and [...]
read moreFast Company: “Five Common Mistakes…”
Fast Company’s Drake Baer compiles a list of 5 common resume mistakes that includes some of what I have in chapter 3 of my book, Modern Job Search. Not a bad quick list. Of course, your resume and work leading [...]
read moreWhere to Begin…
So you’ve just been laid off from your job. You haven’t updated your resume in ages and you can’t remember the last time you went on a job interview. However, now, without much warning and with a real sense of [...]
read moreWelcome to Modern Job Search!
Have you ever wondered what you would do if you were forced to start looking for a job today? Wait, let me re-phrase that. Have you ever wondered what you will do when you have to find a new job? [...]
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