LinkedIn Update: The “Friend Invitation”
Aren’t new features great? Well okay, not all the time…but this time I think so! You may not have noticed but LinkedIn recently made a very significant change to the categories used to validate invitations to connect with other members [...]
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Huff Post: “10 Reasons They Haven’t Contacted You After a Job Interview”
Huffington Post contributor Susan P. Joyce’s recent column “10 Reasons They Haven’t Contacted You After a Job Interview” is a good reminder of something I have to deal with myself and something I have to remind my candidates of regularly: [...]
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Ingratitude, Arrogance and Bad Karma
This is not a new story, most of it appeared to happen last summer (2013) but the fact that I found it suggests that it still resonates. As explained by Janet Cho from the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Kelly Blazek, the [...]
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Alex Malley: “You’re hired! The six characteristics…”
Alex Malley’s LinkedIn “Influencer” article “You’re hired! The six characteristics I look for in a job applicant” has some great insights about how he likes to get beyond the standard interview interrogation. In the book I write a lot [...]
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NYT: “Just Graduated, and Fumbling…”
Alina Tugend’s “Just Graduated, and Fumbling Through a First Job” is a well written article and has some helpful insights about first jobs. Better though, I am smiling because reading it made me think about my real first job out of [...]
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Lifehacker: “How Can I Build a Resume…”
Lifehacker’s “Dear Lifehacker” resume and reference advice from Alan Henry is not bad but falls short in a few key areas. Alan is right on target when he suggests making lists of your greatest professional, educational and personal accomplishments and, [...]
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Fast Company: “How Do I Get Noticed…”
Lolly Daskal’s Fast Company response to a job seeker who is struggling to get noticed contains some really good advice. While I’m not excited about everything in her first tip about which is designed to slip past automated software screenings, the [...]
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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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