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by Kurt Schmidt

NYT: “Out of Work, Out of Benefits…”

Annie Lowery’s  NYT story Out of work, out of  benefits, and running out of options about Abe Gorelick’s experience raises a lot of questions for me as a headhunter.  I wish she wrote more about what specifically Abe is doing to conduct his [...]

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Turning Interviews Into Conversations

In a recent LinkedIn “Influencer” Post, writer Jeff Haden excerpted an interview between management coach Rodger Dean Duncan and Jim Lehrer in which they discussed how to turn interviews into conversations.  The post, like the interview between Duncan and Lehrer, focused [...]

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Business Insider: “The 10 Most Common Jobs in America”

Not really a pretty picture.  The link I originally followed to get to Business Insider’s post was from Slate and had the tab headline:  “The 10 Most Popular Jobs in America.”  The Business Insider post also uses the word “popular” [...]

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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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Forbes: “The Happiest and Unhappiest Jobs…”

According to CareerBliss and Susan Adams at Forbes being an Executive Recruiter or Headhunter is the 3rd “happiest” job you can have.  I feel so lucky, though somehow being a headhunter is still ranked behind being a Data Base Administrator [...]

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Mashable – Daily Muse: “5 Job Search Tactics / Stop…”

Jenny Foss for the Daily Muse at Mashable hits the nail on the head with her post about 5 tactics that candidates shouldn’t do.  Like a lot of these types of posts, there’s some redundancy but overall, what she says [...]

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Clueless with a Keyboard: “How to Make Frenemies on LinkedIn”

I’m not going to be shy. I love LinkedIn.  It is has been a truly great asset for headhunting.  That is not to say that it didn’t take a little time and effort to both figure it out and put [...]

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Forbes: “22 Linked In Secrets…”

Forbes Contributor William Arruda’s list of “22 LinkedIn Secrets LinkedIn Won’t Tell You” is pretty helpful in terms of building a good LinkedIn profile and exploiting some of the networking opportunities available. LinkedIn is a great resource and but can [...]

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