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Job Interview Tips – Making Best Use of Your Employment History
Looking for some job interview tips? Here’s some ideas on how to best use your employment history to win your interviewers over. Your employment history may consist of anything from a Saturday job at school to twenty or more years’ experience in practical, professional, technical or managerial work in your chosen field. Wherever you are [...]
Following Trends in Your Job Search
There is no denying the severity of the economic crisis; but it is equally important to accept the situation and start building your resources for the days ahead. Concentrating on conducting a job search is not easy – but with effort and perseverance, you should be able to tide over. According to an online report [...]
Traditional Resume Are Worthless
In almost 30 years as an executive recruiter, I have looked at at over 100,000 resumes and through our candidate university coached/instructed hundreds of candidates with their job search. One consistent theme in all of this is that candidates receive a lot of mixed messages on resumes. Too often candidates lose sight of the real [...]
Put Your Career Plan on Paper
There is a reason why all life and career coaches ask you to have things written down. Your ideas may sound great but putting them on paper make them real. If you are going to take responsibility for your career you have to start with a strategy to obtain your goal. Think of yourself as [...]
Job Interview Tips – Making Best Use of Your Employment History
Looking for some job interview tips? Here’s some ideas on how to best use your employment history to win your interviewers over. Your employment history may consist of anything from a Saturday job at school to twenty or more years’ experience in practical, professional, technical or managerial work in your chosen field. Wherever you are [...]
3 Tips on How to Find the Top Recession-Proof Career Opportunity
In today’s job market, it would seem that no career path is as straight as it used to be. But some careers do survive, and here are a few tips on how to find the top recession-proof career opportunity. Top Recession-Proof Career Opportunity Tip #1: Do your research, whether online or through community immersion. You [...]
Effective Employment Networking to Get a Job
Employment networking is the topic of the day. And, I must say it is one of my very favorites! You get to be in there, really getting some face time; a chance to talk one-on-one, in person. Nearly everyone understands what employment networking is, but few people do it well. Because it is a passion [...]
Seven Great Questions to Ask at a Job Interview
If you are going for an interview as a prospective employee then you should do some research. Read the job description and requirements carefully. Browse the web site to see how the organization presents itself. Search for news items and comments about the company on news sites and blogs. For the interview itself you should [...]
Top Headhunter's Resume Writing Secrets Revealed
First, a little background by way of a brief case study of how I improved how my candidates resumes were written. The year was 2005 and I was recruiting for a top 15 Fortune client who was very specific about the resumes they accepted, and they had every right to be just that picky. I’d [...]
Is a Paper Resume Still Needed?
These days everything has gone digital including resumes, which begs the question, is a paper resume still needed? There are many sites online now that you can go to and upload a digital version of your resume and more employers than ever before will have access to it. While the digital revolution is indeed a [...]


