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- Why Your Skills & Experience Don’t Matter To Recruiters
- Have You Fed Your Recruiter Today?
Ask A Recruiter Anything You Want To Know
As a recruiter for the last 30 years this September, I get asked questions daily. Sometimes about one’s career and other times job search questions. Most job search questions focus on the tools of a job search, the resume, cover letter, interviews, thank you letters, etc. Sometimes I also get questions about why recruiters do [...]
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Social Media Resume Tool
I stumbled across this tool the other day for job seekers. I was reading one of my favorite blogs on how-to blog, called Blogging Tips, and they featured this tool.
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It appears to enable putting together a "social media" resume. Try it and see if it's useful. I'd love to hear your comments.
I'm always in search of new tools, techniques, and advantages in job search. The landscape keeps changing rapidly on new services, tools, social media and social networking interactions.
As we emerge from this job market depression, the leverage of new tools should prove to be quite powerful as more and more jobs become available.
Barry
Effective Networking Step 3 – Stop Meeting People
So many candidates misunderstand effective networking. They really don’t even understand networking. Many think networking is all about meeting people. The more you meet, the better the network. This is one of those misguided themes that lead many people to frustration.
Effective networking isn’t about meeting people. It is about meeting the right people. I have [...]
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Building An Effective Network Step 2 – Online Social Media & LinkedIn Profile
Step one of effective networking focused on the offline networking process. It discussed why so many candidates receive such little value from networking that most just give up. I understand why this happens and hopefully the 4 steps started to change how most candidates approach networking.
Online networking is becoming more and more an effective way [...]
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Why Job Boards Are A Poor Job Search Strategy
Are you investing too much time responding to job ads on job boards? Are you depending too much on finding your next job through a job advertisement? The vast majority of jobs are not posted on job boards. This pool of available opportunities is called the [...]
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10 Reasons Why Candidates Fail At Networking
Studies show that over 80% of all jobs are within the “hidden job market”. Only 15%-20% of all jobs are filled through job board advertising or through recruiters. If all you’re doing as a candidate is applying for jobs posted on-line, your job search is doomed [...]
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Understanding Why Transition Often Happens Can Help Avoid Turnover
Understanding the Circle Of Transition
High turnover exists because most candidates accept positions they should never have accepted in the first place.
Candidates with high turnover need to understand why it happens and how to stop it. The first step in accomplishing this is understanding when you are in the Circle of Transition. If [...]
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Effective Networking Requires Planning – Step #1
The key word in the title is “effective.” Anyone can network ineffectively. The sad part is that most people I meet do ineffective networking. What is sadder is that they get frustrated or burned out and often give up.
The common belief I hear from candidates about networking is generally all about meeting as many people [...]
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How To Get Job Lead Referrals. 3 Simple Steps
I preach all the time how important it is in a job search to have a steady stream of job lead referrals coming from your network. Few disagree with this. Few also do much about it. Oh they go through the motions, they generate a lot of activity, they meet a [...]
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How to Answer Interview Questions
In a recent post on the About.com Job Searching Blog, Alison Doyle, offers interviewing questions from a few different job categories and offers a few links to tough or difficult questions. She offers good reminders to think some of the questions you could face on a typical interview.
Here a few other links from our Career and Job Search Blog that might help in understanding how to answer interview questions:
Don't Be A Box Checking Victim Radio Program
The Curious George Approach to Interviewing
Two Simple Questions I asked 10 Job Seekers and they failed
These are just a few of the many articles and podcasts available on our Career and Job Search Blog.
Barry Deutsch
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