When it comes to motivating a hiring manager or internal recruiter to move on your submittal, remember the catchy saying….â€Time kills all dealsâ€.
One of the most frustrating things to a recruiter is the lag time between finding and submitting a good candidate and getting meaningful feedback through the screening process. Think about it: how often [...]
I was listening to one of my favorite talk radio show hosts yesterday on XM radio - Larry Elder. Since anyone who is heavily bent to either side of the political dial will probably know who that is, I may have just lost 50% of my audience, that’s OK. The 50% who stay around to [...]
Today I launch into a new series - Top 10 Ways to Blow Getting the Job. Now it’s been a little while since I’ve done a series and I hope that many of my readers will find this one particularly useful. The topic I am going to cover should be near and dear to anyone [...]
If you haven’t done so already, head over to JibberJobber and get your Ultra Platinum Lifetime Upgrade for only $99. I just did it a couple of minutes ago. If you don’t see the link for the Ultra Platinum Lifetime Upgrade on the site, don’t worry, there isn’t one. So [...]
My friend Jason Alba [don't worry there will be the usual eye candy at the end of my posting] is running a special on the incredibly powerful career management toolset, JibberJobber. The details are listed below. If you know what’s good for you, you’ll get your butts over there and sign up. There is also [...]
Today’s lesson isn’t a long one. I was watching Doobie play with Zaiden, who is the son of a great friend of mine. They were playing while I was taking some pictures to send to the Benkiser’s so they could see how Doobie is doing. The first picture is one of Doobie and Zaiden just [...]
As a quick addition to the post that I prepared for Jason Alba’sResume Experiment, I thought that I would include an blind resume from a real candidate so that you could see how the principles that I outlined in my first post come together in the real world.
This particular resume was used to great effect [...]
Just wanted to post some follow-up information regarding the new member of our family. Jules an I have been expecting the arrival on a new Rottweiler puppy from a breeder that we contracted with who is in Tennessee. The puppy (Roscoe who was whelped on Jan 4th) was scheduled to arrive the 3rd or 4th [...]
My friend Jason Alba of JibberJobber (see the end of the article) has asked a number of recruiters and professional resume writers and coaches to participate in critiquing a resume. I was asked to do it from a recruiter’s perspective and agreed at first to just be a judge of the final [...]
I got an idea from my good friend Dave "El Dave" Mendoza. He has a post where he invites people to connect to him on LinkedIn. I’ve been doing some things to update and strengthen my network in the past few weeks so I decided that it might make sense for me to run the [...]
