Increasing Your Calls from Recruiters
As my friend Skip Freeman noted in his excellent post titled SECOND Most Used Website by Recruiters and Companies, it is important that job seekers work to improve their ability to be found and professional presentation on LinkedIn and Zoominfo. If you are actively looking for a new job or simply would like to have …
6 Tips for Writing Effective Job Descriptions
Writing an effective job description isn’t exactly rocket science, but there are some key things to keep in mind for maximum effectiveness. After all, your overarching goal is to attract high quality candidates and avoid those who need not apply. This can only happen if your job description is approached with the right attention and …
Keywords in Résumé Lead to Interviews
Eighty percent of all submitted résumés (and 100 percent of résumés sent to Fortune 1000 companies) get scanned by software commonly known as an applicant-tracking system (ATS), and such scanned résumés are stored on a server in a digitized format. Humans are seeing your résumé only if it resurfaces based on a query. That’s why …
Business Lessons Learned from Horrible Corporate Holiday Parties
Laughter is the best medicine for any occasion, and these stories should make you feel great! But underneath the funny recounting of circumstances, are excellent business lessons. As you read each of the stories and questions that follow, you will recognize a critical element for business development and sales that went missing. Having included those …
Why Should Companies Hire International Candidates?
Companies should hire international candidates because sometimes it is very difficult to find some of the skills that they are looking for among the domestic ones. Therefore, they should hire international candidates to fill that skills gap.
For example, statistics show that there aren’t many domestic computer science students studying programming in Java. Consequently, employers …
Kings of Content: Interview with the UR Business Network
Recently, I had the pleasure of sitting down with two of my mentors and close friends, Sergio Garcia and Rick Brutti. Sergio is a multimedia marketing expert, and has published several books in Latin America and a successful business magazine in the United States. Rick is a serial entrepreneur and the first ever CFO of …
This Interview Will Change Your Personal Brand Forever
As an active job seeker, you probably have a good idea of what a personal brand is. Even if you think you understand, you still might be struggling to define your personal brand. There’s a simple solution you may not have considered: interview yourself.
If you’re struggling to define your personal brand, you should put …
Interview: Where Do You See Yourself in 5 Years?
Among the silliest questions you get in a job interview, is the one that won’t die: “Where do you see yourself in five years?”
If you’ve written a business plan, you know your five-year forecast is the least reliable outcome you “predict.” Same thing when you ponder your investment portfolio, the height of your infant, …
Getting to the Table
Now that we have stuffed ourselves at Thanksgiving feasts with family and friends, I would like to share a story about growing up as one of the youngest members of my extended family. When I was a little kid, dinners at extended family gatherings were always broken into two groups, the adult and kid table. …
‘Tis the Season, But This One Doesn’t Offer Gifts
It’s here, again!
The season is back.
No, I’m not talking about the holiday season.
I’m talking about the Annual Performance Review Season, right?
Yes, ’tis the season everyone in the working world dreads, isn’t it?
More procrastination is engaged in during this time of the working year around the annual performance review than any …