Recruiter Insight: Top Ten Interview BlundersRecruiters. Whether you love them or hate them (if you hate them, you might not understand what their role is in your job search), you have to admit, they know a ton about job search interviews. July 28th, 2011
Job Search Questions on LinkedInHere are some recent questions you can find on Peter’s LinkedIn Profile. His first degree contacts get these in email (sometimes) – but you can find them just by going to his Profile and then looking for this box on the right column: Here are some questions he’s asked recently – check them out… the answers [...] June 29th, 2011
Is Your Recruiter Thinking About Firing You?Another excellent article by a recruiter at Recruiting Blogs, titled 10 warning signals to drop a candidate. June 3rd, 2011
What HR Thinks About Job Interviews (Readers Digest Version)This is the third, and final of the Readers Digest thoughts. This time it’s on their post What HR People Won’t Tell You About The Job Interview. April 11th, 2011
Career Thoughts: How Recruiters Think About *Their* Careers!On Recruiter.com there is a great post that has 10 questions for recruiters to ask themselves about their own careers. The questions are below but you must read the original post to walk through the thought process. This is really a great “where am I at” exercise to see how you might be perceived and [...] March 10th, 2011
Target Companies: How to do Company Research for a Job InterviewI am a huge fan of having a list of target companies. I just read a post on JobMob (guest written buy Nisa Chitakasem) on how to research a company before the big interview. Nisa is writing from the UK, so some of the stuff she says might not apply, but in general it’s good [...] February 17th, 2011
Job Search ScamsDave Opton, of Execunet, wrote a much-needed post about job search scams titled The Scam All-Star List. Go read it and please, don’t get scammed during this part of your life. It’s already demoralizing enough to be in an extended job search, much less get taken to the cleaners by unethical people. November 12th, 2010
Ask The Headhunter: Must-Read NewsletterI’ve been on Nick Corcodilos’ newsletter for over a year and I have to tell you, this is a must-read newsletter. (Subscribe at this page, towards the top, in the middle there is a Subscribe now link) October 5th, 2010
Email Subject Lines & Effective CommunicationTom Clifford wrote an invaluable post titled Why Precise Email Subject Lines Are Like Diamonds. I’ve been doing a lot of corporate communication lately so I thought I’d read the first part to see what he had to say … I devoured the entire post. I especially like the end, where he gives examples of [...] June 23rd, 2010
How to Survive a LayoffManny Otiko is a PR professional who wrote a great post called Tips on Surviving a Layoff. You’ll have to read his post to get the explanations of all of his points, which are: Be Patient. Based on today’s economy he argues that it takes considerably longer to land a job – not our fault but [...] February 25th, 2010
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