Human Resources | Hiring Managers | Recruiters | Sourcers These people can be awfully judgey at times. Looking at all the expert resume and interview tips, most of them are just long lists of “Thou Shalt Nots” - or you will be banished to job hell. “Don’t do this, don’t wear that, say this, use […]
Category: Career Coaching
Recruiters Are Trying To Give You A Chance
Lately, I have been working with local companies on hiring for various positions and although I am an advocate for job seekers, I must say… you all have to do a better job as candidates. First, you aren’t reading the job descriptions anymore. Maybe you get a job alert on your phone and you just […]
Recruiters Can Be Lazy Too
Recruiters Can Be Lazy Too Unfortunately, some recruiters will read the title and get really upset with me, they may even troll me on social media or drag me through the comment section, but the truth is some recruiters ARE lazy. And the lazy ones will probably never see this article because they are too […]
90 Days to a New Job (New Year’s Resolution)
90 Days to a New You. I have noticed that it takes most job seekers about 63 days to get a new job. I have had several previous clients reach out to let me know that they secured new jobs within 2 months of working with me. In most of those cases, they originally gave […]
Keep Your Head on a Swivel (Stay Woke)
Keep Your Head on a Swivel (Stay Woke) It’s December, 2016. Normally, at this time of the year, I do not have very many clients and I adjust for that, however, as we all know by now, 2016 has been and is like no other year in recent memory. This December, I have a few […]
How to Prepare for a New Job Search in 2017
Well as you may know, in America, we have just elected a new President, who will be taking over January 20th 2017. No matter how you feel about the President-Elect and his future administration, one thing remains constant – you want more in 2017. Many of you plan to stick it out for 2016, until after the holidays […]
JOBS: Boomers & Gen-X Have Advantages Over Millennials
…in the job market. Hiring Boomers and Gen-X has Major Advantages Over Millennials We hear about Millennials all the time. There are more Millennials than any other generation. They make up half of the world’s population. So you know they are dominating the workforce. They have changed the way we communicate and do business forever […]
Career Sabotage
Career Sabotage If we know it or not many of us are shooting ourselves in the foot. Let me say before I got into HR, unbeknownst to me, I was doing things that did not help my own career. Then before becoming a resume writer, I had a functional style resume – which if you […]
All Due Respect, No One Is Going To Read Your ENTIRE Resume!
I know you are a big deal and have done some fantastic things but I can’t stress this point enough, no matter how important you are or think you are, no one is going to read your entire resume. Even the amazingly awesome resumes I create, I am sure that no one reads the entire […]
Take Control of Your Job Search
Last week I wrote an article about how to job hunt like an Executive. I gave 3 tips to search like an Executive (they know what they’re doing). I also gave some DIY advice for those of you who think you do not need professional help. Well, I left one thing off that is also very […]