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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 [...]

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Business 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 [...]

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Available 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 [...]

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Fast 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 [...]

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Where 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 [...]

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Welcome 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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