#CareerAdvice : Which Of These #JobSearch Mistakes Are You Making? #Recruiters Reveal What Makes Candidates Stand Out.
As a recruiter for over 20 years, I have my own opinions on what makes candidates stand out for good and for bad. However, I also like to collect feedback from my recruiting colleagues, across a range of industries, and you can see earlier interviews with recruiters from financial services, management consulting, advertising, tech, education, and non-profit. Some of the pet […]
#Leadership : The Best Thing To Do When You Mess Up. A Two(2) Min #MustRead !
As leaders, we’ve all been there: that awful moment of clarity when we realize we’ve screwed up. Our hearts and minds race, our palms sweat and our mouths dry up. We consider our options and what to do next: Hope no one notices the flub? Hide out until it blows over? Pretend it never happened? But hope […]
#CareerAdvice : #YourCareer – These are the 5 Things you Should be Doing while Building your #Career . Great REad for All!
Career-building in today’s world can be overwhelming. Once upon a time, all you needed was a job offer from an established company and you’d basically be set up for life. But today job-hopping is the norm for people of all ages—and across all industries. A LinkedIn study showed that millennials are likely to jump jobs four […]
#BestofFSCBlog : #JobSearch -Confessions Of A Former Corporate #Recruiter . A #MustRead for All!
If you’re a #JobSeeker Reading This and Finding Yourself Appalled and Offended, You Should Be. It’s Not You, it’s the Hiring Process. It’s Broken.
#BestofFSCBlog – Over 30K REads! Complete #SalaryNegotiations Toolkit – How to Negotiate Your Salary. Best One Stop Read!
Everything You Need to Get the Salary You Deserve Negotiating a better salary is something that everyone should be focused on. No matter when the last time you negotiated for a better salary was, the time will come again when the value of work you do is not reflected in the compensation you receive for that work. When […]
#CareerAdvice : #AgeDiscrimination – Overqualified Job Seekers Are Discriminated Against: Here’s How To Combat The Built-In Bias
On Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal unveiled the tough challenges confronted by overqualified job seekers. The article builds upon a study conducted by university professors at Carnegie Mellon, Stanford and Johns Hopkins. Their research concludes, “The managers perceive highly capable candidates to have lower commitment to the organization than less capable, but adequate candidates and, as a result, penalize high-capability candidates […]
#CareerAdvice : Why Being Nice isn’t Always Good for #YourCareer . Interesting REad!
Being considered nice is, well, nice, but it can come with a cost at work. Prioritizing niceness often means not being honest or critical, and sometimes that can hurt the company or your career in the long run. If you’re concerned with being nice, however, you’re not alone. In a study of 1,000 full-time employees across the […]
#CareerAdvice : This is What to Say (and What Not to Say) during Any #SalaryNegotiation . A Two(2) Min #MustRead !
No one ever taught me about negotiating, and for the first several years of my career, I was so happy to get any job offer. When the hiring manager stated the salary, I simply said, “Okay, thank you.” The idea that I could ask for a higher number, and that my skills and talent were […]
#CareerAdvice : 21 #MotivationalQuotes For Your #JobSearch Or #CareerChange . A #MustRead !
Feeling depressed, defeated and down about your job search or career change is not uncommon. We’ve all likely experienced some form of unhappiness at work. Shawn Anchor delivers one of the most popular TED talks on the subject of happiness. As a positive psychology expert, he’s found that success at work is partly due to a positive […]
#CareerAdvice : #JobSearch -How to Respond to a Recruiter’s InMail on #LinkedIn . #MustRead !
With a healthy labor market, record low unemployment and steady wage growth, U.S. job seekers are in the driver’s seat of their careers. Employers are eager to show you more than the basic job description. They are beefing up their employer branding, benefits, perks and insights into their company culture to attract you to their open jobs. And one […]