Help your recruiter remember youIs it your role, or your duty, to help a recruiter remember who you are? If they are good, shouldn’t they remember who you are?? Isn’t that THEIR JOB? It might be a part of their job, but if they aren’t doing that part of their job well, is it their FAULT? Some recruiters will [...] November 16th, 2011
Job Search Email MistakesA timely and important post from Brazen Careerist on email mistakes that people make. I’ve developed an entire video series on this subject. I’ve been emailing in a professional capacity for almost 15 years, and was an email administrator for a couple of years. Email is a powerful tool. Just like a knife, it can [...] November 9th, 2011
DO NOT Lie To Recruiters!What’s the worst that could happen if you lie to a recruiter? If you are a job seeker, you could essentially become blacklisted by the recruiter, his firm, and their contacts. Recruiters are networkers. They talk. If you lie, they can find out. If they find out, they will question everything else you’ve told them. [...] November 2nd, 2011
Job Search Tips from HRTechConf: Current Job Search TalkI’m going to keep this post really short because you need to spend time reading a long post from Chris Brabic titled What I learned in Vegas: #HRTechConf Wrap-Up This is from the HR Technology Conference, so it’s not totally about job search, but there was a lot of talent management talk, for sure. Chris [...] October 31st, 2011
Job Search Myths from a RecruiterGavin Redelman posted this on Recruiting Blogs: Five Myths About Job Searching His myths are: The smartest person always gets the job Direct experience is most important Dating a co-worker will lead to career doom Applying for jobs online is the only way to find a new job Writing a cover letter is a waste [...] October 27th, 2011
Alison Doyle: When Networking Isn’t WorkingAlison Doyle wrote a great post on the Job Search . About site about a topic that everyone talks about… but the flip side of the coin. Networking is supposedly how you are going to land your next gig. What if it just doesn’t work for you?? Read her post here. Her points include: Walk [...] October 24th, 2011
Why do people disappear after they find a job?In my last Career Resumes post I talked about your job search competition: other job seekers. Last month on my JibberJobber blog I wrote about “that guy,” the guy who is there and needy when he is in transition, but he disappears after he lands a job. In the comments, Marc Miller kind of defends [...] October 17th, 2011
Job Search: Who is your competition?A friend told me his company needed to hire someone with my skills. This was a good friend who cared about my employment, and was willing to help where he could. His brother was the hiring manager, and I knew I had the “in” I needed. During the interview I could tell the job was [...] October 13th, 2011
Job Search: High Value ActivitiesI’m getting ready to learn from “Growing Your Business” mentor Mark LeBlanc, in Salt Lake City. One of Mark’s messages has had a significant impact on how I run my business. It is deceptively simple, yet is really, really powerful. In a business, he says, we need to identify three “high value activities.” Those are [...] October 10th, 2011
How Picky Can You Be As A Job Seeker?Samantha Lacey, a recruiter, writes Do candidates expect too much? She talks about one job seeker (aka, candidate) who just about had a job until he declined the type of BMW the company was going to give him, instead asking for a different model. Then everything fell apart, and the recruiter looked really bad. Many [...] October 6th, 2011
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