Helping You Reach Your Job Search and Career Goals
I read a post today entitled “Why Are We So Obsessed With Finding ‘Passive’ Job Candidates?” My first thought was, “Still?” I mean, honestly — why would companies stigmatize a person simply because s/he was a victim of the terrible economy we’ve been having for the past few years? Shouldn’t the focus be on the [...]
Living in Wisconsin, I am one of many who follow the Green Bay Packers. And this season has been a pretty amazing one. Until Sunday night, that is. Not only did they lose the game, they were trounced. I’m guessing that not many people thought that the highest seeded team would go out in their [...]
I came across an interesting article on the benefits of smiling. It listed 15 reasons why smiling is good for you. Here’s a few of them that apply to job hunting: “Smiling makes us attractive.” Put yourself in the shoes of an interviewer for a moment. What would you think about a candidate who did [...]
While on Twitter last week, an interesting tweet by recruiter and social media strategist Steve Levy caught my eye: The first part of his tweet makes perfect sense and is something that I have talked about here, but the second part — the “unsolicited call” — intrigued me. So I asked Steve if he would [...]
In my last post, I talked about the importance of using numbers on a résumé or cover letter. Now does that mean that you should always be looking for accomplishments that have big numbers attached to them? Not at all. Sometimes, achievements with small numbers have just as much (if not more) of an impact. [...]
