Recruiting Hell: Episode #51
Recruiting Hell? Well, here’s your get out of jail free card.
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Recruiting Hell: Episode #50
Recruiting Hell: Episode #50 Life is going great until one day you’re out of work. No matter how it happened. You need to find a new job pronto. The problem is, no one ever taught you how to navigate ever shifting and ever changing wasteland of applying for a job in the modern market. When …
The Big Job Search Question For 2022
A Job Search Question That’s Asked More Often Then You Think As a professional resume writer, here’s a question I’ve been asked at least twice a day for the past 10 years: “My job search isn’t working — what should I do?” I’ve had to answer that question 10,950 times since 1996 (do the math). …
5 Résumé Mistakes That Can Kill Your Career
As a professional recruiter with 35 years’ experience, I’ve seen the same mistakes time and again in résumés. Mistakes in your résumé can damage or even kill your career because a sub-standard résumé can prevent you from ever being called for a job interview. But don’t worry! If your résumé isn’t 100% perfect, you’re not …
How to Avoid Job Search Insanity in 2021
Avoiding Job Search Insanity Has your job search made you crazy? It may have, if you agree with this definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over, but expecting a different result. Many otherwise-intelligent people find themselves without work for 6, 12, 18 months or longer. Yet they continue to do the same …
3 More Job Search Secrets for Tough Times
Important Job Search Secrets In my ongoing search for the latest and best job-hunting tips, I interviewed a Silicon Valley recruiter and cracked open my client files this week. The employment methods we’ll explore here are highly effective, largely unknown, and all boil down to one word: people. Because it’s not just what you know …
7 Deadly Words When Writing A Resume
Words to Avoid When Writing A Resume To succeed in today’s job market, your résumé and cover letter must be concise and easy to read. Sounds obvious, right? But you’d be surprised how often a résumé or cover letter are ruined when the author utilizes a superabundance of polysyllabic terminology (uses too many big words). Here …
5 Resume Flaws to Avoid
The Most Common Resume Flaws to Avoid Are you sabotaging your job search? You may be — right now — if your resume contains serious flaws in design, the kind I see every day. Here are five of the most-common Resume Flaws to Avoid that I’ve found in the nearly all resumes people have sent …
3 Odd Ways To Find A Job
The Best and The Most Odd Ways To Find A Job In my never-ending quest to help you get hired fast, I uncovered three slightly offbeat ways to find a job this week. Let’s dive right in. 1) Turn Rejections Into Job Interviews Good old-fashioned persistence and quick thinking paid off big for one …
3 Ingredients of Effective Resumes
The Key to Writing Effective Resumes Writing a resume is like brewing beer — certain ingredients are essential, but there’s no one way to do it. Just as every good batch of beer needs water, malt, hops and yeast, there are certain ingredients that should go into every good resume. There are three of them, …