Interviewing Do’s and Don’ts – Radio Show

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Changing a few basic interviewing techniques can dramatically change your interviewing success rate. Whether with a recruiter, HR or hiring manager these few Do’s and Don’ts will prove to impact your job search. We discuss the three or four most common mistakes candidates often make, what you can specifically do to fix them and provide [...] Related posts:
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Job Search Stalled? Do What the Pros Do.

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I was reading a golf magazine recently and a particular article caught my attention. It was about what one of the top pros on the PGA tour does when he gets stalled or in a slump. He simply goes back to basics. He goes back to when he first started playing golf to review if [...] Related posts:
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Does Your Career Flounder and Flop Around Like a Fish out of Water?

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When was the last time you thought about your career? NOT your job – your long-term career. Is your career a series of flopping around from job to job, floundering like a fish out of water – or is there a coherent, obvious, planned approach to moving your career forward? In 5 – 10 –15 years [...] Related posts:
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The Hot Potato Method of Applying to a Job Opening

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I touched on this idea the other day in a blog article when I mentioned the idea that you should have a plan for how to attack or blitz a job opening. Let’s explore this idea a little further. Most candidates treat responding to job advertisements like they are a hot potato – touch and get [...] Related posts:
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Cover Letter + Great Resume = Interview

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This is the winning formula for getting interviews. There are exceptions for personal referrals and networking contacts, but often even with these they will first ask for a resume. It has been my experience recently that many candidates “know” this formula intellectually but few convert from the knowing to “doing.” And that after all is the [...] Related posts:
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Are You Responding To Job Descriptions Masquerading as Job Advertisements?

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Over 90% of companies post their entire job description or some modified version of it as a job advertisement. Why? Is it because they don’t want to take the time to write a real advertisement? Is it because they’re taking the easy way out – posting something that was downloaded off the internet in 1999? Is it [...] Related posts:
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I Can Do Your Job Better Than You and I’m Just A Recruiter

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It really doesn’t matter if you have 20+ years of experience in your profession, or that it has taken you 20+ years of learning from your mistakes, or that over that 20+ years you have taken on-going educational classes to perfect your talents. I can still do your job, if not better, at least as well [...] Related posts:
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Resume Tweaking May Be Better Than An Overhaul

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I was meeting with a candidate today, we will call him Andy, who recently landed. He had been on the market for about 5 months. He did all the right things, went to the networking meetings, drank more coffee than he should have, reworked his resume over and over, all for nothing. He would get [...] Related posts:
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Is Your Job Search Saw Sharp or Dull?

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One of my favorite books is The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Steven Covey. Over the past two decades I have constantly referred to this book for insight and personal growth. Covey describes one of the habits effective people embrace as “Sharpening the Saw’”. Sharpening the Saw is the process of becoming better, learning more, [...] Related posts:
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Resume Do’s and Don’ts

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Every person that has put together a resume knows the basics, no spelling errors, limit to two pages, chronological format, use keywords and so on, but there are other basic issues that candidates do and don’t do that  have a big impact on getting their resume noticed. By getting noticed I mean read and ultimately [...] Related posts:
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