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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...
How to Keep Learning When You Have No Time for an Education
Your life is….busy! Really busy: you work 40-plus hours a week, you have a spouse who also works full-time, you have two school-aged children (or maybe their teens and so you want to keep a close eye on them). You want to eat right and exercise. You’d like some...
Thinking of Becoming a Recruiter? Tips to Help You Thrive (and Survive)
If you’ve ever thought of becoming a recruiter – particularly in the staffing industry – you’ve picked a great time in the history of the industry to do so: Staffing Industry Analysts projects that the staffing market will grow by three percent in 2018, with revenue...
Why Bragging Can Be a Very Good Thing for Your Career
Many of us – especially the many of us that are women – are told that bragging is rude and self-centered. It’s. Not. Something. Polite. People. Do. But if you want to get ahead in your career, your business, even your personal life, “strategic” braggadocio can be a...