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 movi…
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The Hot Potato Method of Applying to a Job Opening
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 li…
Are You Responding To Job Descriptions Masquerading as Job Advertisements?
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 – po…
Resume Tweaking May Be Better Than An Overhaul
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 ove…
Is Your Job Search Saw Sharp or Dull?
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
Why Most Interviews Are Box-Checking
The traditional process of interviewing is typically an exercise in box-checking.
Hiring Managers and Executives use the traditional job description to check off whether you meet the criteria for the job. As we described in a previous blog posting, the…
STOP Interviewing With Your Eyes Closed
If you’re not asking a version of the question “What are top 3 things I’ve got to do in this position to be successful” in the first 5 minutes of the interview – you might as well shut your eyes and put your hands over your ears – the effec…
Hope and Luck are NOT Job Search Strategies
Why do so many candidates rely passively on hope and luck to end their job search?
This is not like spinning the roulette wheel in Atlantic City or Las Vegas. Our life is passively dictated by what number comes up.
You cannot afford to be passive in yo…
How to Fail at Interviewing Before You Start
You might ask “How can you fail at interviewing before you start?”
The vast majority of candidates never get an opportunity to interview in a face-to-face meeting with the hiring manager or executive because they BLOW the phone interview.
These can…
I’m Perfect For The Position, So Why Did I Get Screened Out?
Great question. Probably an obvious answer.
The easy answer is, you probably aren’t perfect for the job, at least from the recruiter’s or hiring manager’s perspective. Now that doesn’t mean you aren’t perfect. It may mean …
