Everyday Career Advice: Find the Right Recruiter and Make Friends
Over the years I’ve read a lot of articles about both how to get a recruiter’s attention and how it is no fun to be ignored by recruiters. Most of the articles give some tips and tricks to get attention [...]
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The Truth About Resumes
Here’s the truth about resumes – there’s nothing in the world you can do to make me read your resume if your experience isn’t what I need right now. It is frustrating to see so many articles about how to [...]
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On Candidate Marketing: Lunch with Mike
I haven’t always been a recruiter. A couple of posts ago I wrote about my first jobs out of college, a short stint as a distribution manager at the local paper and a longer term selling insurance in rural Georgia. [...]
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“What Kind of Salary are you Seeking?”
“How much money are you looking for?” or “What kind of salary are you seeking?” If not the most dreaded question during an interview, this one, no matter how it is phrased has to be in the top three. And [...]
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How I Learned About Value
Excerpted from Modern Job Search / Chapter 1: Value is the beginning. It’s objective, measurable, communicable and transferable. Our society and economy operate on the exchange of value. The first time I really thought about value was during a job [...]
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What is your resume supposed to do?
Resumes are important but they are not the most important part of your job search. A resume on its own will not get you a job. However, ensuring that your resume keeps the process moving is critical. Typically people spend [...]
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What’s Your Value Proposition?
Why anyone does what they do at work, strategically, is their value within their organization. It’s more than a mission statement or a goal in that value is a precise term and has context. Extracting and understanding value is the [...]
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IMPORTANT: Never resign until you know for sure!
Susan Adam’s recent Forbes column, “How A Criminal Background Check Can Cost You The Job” is a necessary read for pretty much anyone who is looking for a job in today’s market. All of my large corporate clients do background checks and [...]
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What Signals Are You Sending? (Expanded from Inc.)
Are you doing everything you can to get the most out of your job interview experiences? Sure, you’ve prepared, done research on the company, read and re-read the job description, thought about key questions and answers, and generally read [...]
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“The First 90 Days” by Michael Watkins
A candidate I recently worked with told me she was reading Michael D. Watkins’ “The First 90 Days” ahead of starting at her new job. I haven’t read it yet myself, but based on the excerpts and reviews I read [...]
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