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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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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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