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Are You STILL Focused on Finding the Perfect Candidate?!
As a hiring manager, are you looking for ways to screen people out instead of looking for ways to find the good in candidates? For example, if you notice a typo on a resume, do you automatically throw it into the proverbial “round file”? What about gaps in work...
When You Chose the Wrong Career
It happens: we spend four – or more! – years studying for a certain type of career or profession and then two or three years after working within it, we come to the conclusion that it’s simply the wrong career. For us. If this is you, don’t panic. Read below to find...
Congratulations on Graduating! Now Get to Work!
Graduation was mere weeks ago. Congratulations on your accomplishments and – if you’ve found one – starting your new “real job.” Your campus’ career center and/or family and friends may have given you lots of great advice and guidance when it came to finding that job,...
Job Search Strategies for Over-50 Job Seekers
It’s sad and, unfortunately, true: even in this hot, hot, hot candidates’ market, it can still take people 40- and 50-plus a long time to find work, especially if they’ve been laid off or out of the workforce for a few years going back to school, raising a family or...
A To-Do List for Extending Job Offers
Have you ever extended an offer of employment to a job candidate only to find that the candidate then goes back to his employer and accepts a counter offer? We’ve all been there. But if we’d followed a pre-job-offer-extension checklist, the scenario above might not...
3 Ways New Grads Can Advance Their Job Search
Many new college – and even high school – graduates haven’t yet lined up “real” jobs and, if this is you, you may have started to panic, especially if several of your friends already have jobs lined up. (“Everyone is telling me it’s a great job market out there, so...
How to Really Stand Out in a Sea of New Graduates
High schools and colleges soon will be holding Commencement exercise for the Class of 2018 and thousands upon thousands of graduating seniors will be looking for work. If you will be one of them, here’s a question: with so many graduates flooding the market at the...
How to Use EI When Interviewing
As a recruiter or hiring manager, interviewing job candidates is a critical part of your job. If you’re a hiring manager interviewing potential employees for work in your department, your department’s success – as well as your own – relies on you choosing the right...
Why Preparation is 80 Percent of Career Success
You’ve no doubt heard the saying that 80 percent of your accomplishments comes from 20 percent of your efforts. This is known as the Pareto Principle (which actually states that 80 percent of effects come from 20 percent of causes). (You also may have noticed that 20...