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 moreForbes: “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 [...]
read moreMashable – 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 [...]
read moreClueless 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 [...]
read moreForbes: “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 [...]
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 [...]
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