Your head tells you, “No one is hiring.” I am here to tell you that it is not true. This is actually the time we get to have fun with this process!
The holidays can present many leads to pursue and an abundance of opportunities to expand your network.
Whether you are an introvert or an extrovert, here are practices you can do to make job searching and holiday networking easier for you during this season:...
Holiday season is upon us which means you’ll likely be attending a lot of events.
Not just your family events, but events at your job and any associations you may be a part of.
While advancing your career may not be the point of these events, they do present the perfect opportunity to get a little networking in. Simply put, no one is expecting you to vie for a job at a holiday party like you would in a more prof...
People are often offended by the questions they are asked on an interview.
Stupid questions. Ridiculous questions. “Questions that should not be asked, but god help us all, they are still asked” questions.
You know… Questions like:
“What was your salary in your last position?” (It’s illegal in one state to ask this question, but everywhere else, still legal to ask.)
“Wh...
“Show your resume to 50 people and get 75 opinions”
~Lisa Rangel
Everyone has an opinion about your resume.
Yet all resume advice is not created equal.
Here are some points to use when evaluating solicited or unsolicited feedback on your resume. You will be surprised that some of the well-intentioned people you will ask, should not be offering advice:
THIRD PARTY RECRUITERS: Third party recruiters g...
I once was feeling sorry for myself…
I was on Facebook one day and saw all of these pictures of people at parties where I wasn’t invited.
So I was feeling a little sorry for myself, and I told friend of mine about how I was feeling…
And she said to me…
“So when was the last time you had a party and invited people over?”
Me: “Well, um….never.”
My Fri...
I had a year-long Triber ask me what I thought of an article about discrimination towards the unemployed.
He is a skilled, experienced tech person who has been unemployed for a year and curious as to what I thought about President Obama’s efforts to make the unemployed a protected class (which was successful in some capacity in some states in the US).
My answer?
I don’t pay attention to it and I think f...
The LinkedIn Profile and Usage trends for 2015 are still in effect, as it is still important to make your profile app friendly, capitalize on the multimedia features, start publishing on LinkedIn’s Pulse, and make your profile resume-like with personality. However, with the multitude of LinkedIn’s changes this year, it has cultivated a new crop of trends that will enable executive job seekers to get the most from their Link...
Executive phone interviews are very different from an in-person or video interview and pose special challenges. When the job position you want is on the line, you need to know how to make the right impression.Employment interviews take place in person, via webcam, and on the telephone. The big difference for a telephone interview is the lack of your ability to see, or telegraph, important nonverbal cues.To some, a telephone...
LinkedIn announced the rollout of LinkedIn Referrals this week. LinkedIn Referrals, which is being called the next generation of LinkedIn Recruiter, is where recruiters use profiles of their superstar managers and employees to find other applicants with similar traits and expertise to add to the rock star employee roster. So instead of trying to write a candidate profile or job description to capture the essence of that top...
Do you fear being asked about the rocky performance you had in your last or current job on the next interview?Did you have a less-than-favorable relationship with your CEO recently and you are dreading the interviewer asking the “tell me about how well you worked with your boss” question?Unsure how to handle the skeletons in your closet?I say take it out of the closet and make it dance….What?It’s a term from George Bernard...