You’ve got 30 seconds The terrifying reality regarding your resume is that for all the many hours you put into fine-tuning, you’ve got 30 seconds to make an impression on me. Maybe less. It’s unfair, it’s imprecise, and there’s a good chance that I make horrible mistakes, but there’s a lot more of you than
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Top 10 Reasons for failing interviews. How well do you think you do in an interview? You can read book after book on how to interview well but the truth is in the telling, and on the day it’s about how the interviewer sees YOU. Not your skills, not your knowledge, not your education or
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Networking, Personal Contacts Best Way to Find a Job ICraiglist, Monster and CareerBuilder are fine but if you’re really serious about finding a job, personal contacts and off-line networking are still the best methods. A new Hudson survey finds that networking was the most common way workers (28 percent) and managers (33 percent) alike secured
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15 Things You Can Do Right Now To Help Your Career Most career advice you receive focuses on the big picture: how to get ahead, how to “win,†and such things that are on a much larger scale than the daily grind that most of us face. In fact, it is that day to day
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Smart way to say: I quit IT IS a fantasy every employee has had at least once in their working life. Walking into the boss’s office and telling him what to do with your job. But there is a right way and a wrong way to resign. The wrong way can lead to bad feelings
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Thinking about a career makeover? As he climbed the corporate ladder through a series of advertising and marketing jobs, Brian Sprinkle could never let go of the idea that what he really wanted to do was coach youth sports. A former college soccer goaltender at Longwood College, now Longwood University, in Farmville, Va., Sprinkle coached
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You’re Older? So Sell Your Wisdom Ageism is real, but you can beat it by emphasizing your skills and building relationships Age discrimination is against the law, but highly qualified people in their 50s and 60s still get passed over for jobs they might have landed easily if they were 20 years younger. Jeannette Woodward,
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Finding your way to a new job If you don’t enjoy your career, life is too short not to look elsewhere. The trick is figuring out where to look. The decision to leave a job isn’t easy. How do you know when dreading the upcoming workday becomes more than just fatigue? If you quit, will
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Market yourself: Build a better profile It’s tempting to think that all you need to do to find work is upload your resume and wait for recruiters to knock down your door…but don’t. I’ve worked with a lot of new consultants over the years and without a doubt, the thing they have the most trouble
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Did You Lie On Your Resume? Say you spent two years “finding yourself,” living at home, watching a lot of daytime television and letting your mother do your laundry. Now it’s time to get a job. But how do you explain those two missing years? Fake it, says former headhunter Derek Johnson. On his free
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Informational Interviews…should you ask for one? External candidates contact me pretty frequently to ask for informational interviews. I understand why they do it and I try to help them understand why I can’t grant informational interviews. It could potentially turn into a full-time job for me. Recruiters at large companies will get a high volume
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What to Do After the Interview to Increase Your Chance of Getting the Job I’ve been a recruiter since 1997 and have interviewed hundreds of applicants. I’ve previewed and/or screened a few thousand more. Here’s a little inside secret – recruiters and employers want you to be the perfect fit for the job. Why? Because
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Know the rules of employee recruiters There’s just one thing between you and that great new job: a middleman, also known as a search firm or recruiting agency. You could find yourself working closely with a recruiter before you ever land an interview with the company you want to work for. It’s the job of
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New challenges and opportunities inspire boomers to explore options What are you doing the rest of your life? It’s a question baby boomers like Arlene and Dan faced as they abandoned their 9-to-5′s. Two successful professionals, they planned their perfect vision of retirement, which included moving to a beautiful spot in France they had visited
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Five cover letters that can land you a job In a fast-paced, Internet-laced world of job searching, a seemingly archaic yet extremely effective tool is often forgotten: the cover letter. You know — that actual piece of paper on which you brag a little, kiss up a little and lay out as un-desperately as possible
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