Corporate America: Your Hiring Processes Are Branded As ‘Broken’!
Look at it from almost any perspective and there is only one conclusion that can realistically be drawn about the hiring processes currently prevailing in Corporate America—they are sadly broken and essentially out of sync with the realities of the current labor market pool. What’s worse, most companies don’t even seem to have any genuine …
Most Important Job Interview Question Is Asked By YOU!
Throughout the job hunting process you will be asked many questions, from “Why do you want to work at our company?” to “Tell me about your current (or previous) boss,” as well as a multitude of similar “qualifying” questions. How you answer each of these questions is of course very important. There is, however, one …
Veterans Still Facing Unique Challenges in 2012 Job Market
Most people are certainly aware that the job market of the last several years has been brutal for millions of Americans. What most people probably are not aware of, however, is that it has been especially brutal for our military veterans, particularly our younger veterans. Unemployment among this group of young men and women is …
Unemployed? 7 ‘Resolutions’ You Need to Make for 2012
Part II of II
Editor’s Note: In Part I of this two-part series, international best-selling job hunting book author and professional “headhunter” Skip Freeman suggested the 7 New Year’s “resolutions” employed people should seriously consider making to land their “dream job” in the new year. In Part II, Skip offers 7 highly recommended New Year’s …
7 Vital Career ‘Resolutions’ You Should Make for 2012
Part I of II Parts
Editor’s Note: In this the first of a two-part series, international best-selling job hunting book author and professional “headhunter” Skip Freeman examines some key career moves employed job seekers should resolve to make in the upcoming year—if they want to land their dream job in 2012. In Part II, Skip …
‘Mirroring’ Helps Brand You as a Good Cultural Fit!
There is an old saying, a truism, in sales: People buy from people they like. This same concept also applies when it comes to landing a new job: People hire people they like. But, where the hiring process is concerned, there is an additional, unique twist to the saying: People hire people they like . …
Should You Consider ‘Reinventing’ Yourself Today For Tomorrow’s Jobs?
As we enter yet another very challenging year for the overall job market, with “official” unemployment still stubbornly hovering in the nine percent range and no real relief in sight, many job hunters—perhaps you included!—are seriously wondering if they should begin “reinventing” themselves today in preparation for the jobs of tomorrow.
Here is the short …
How Hanna Landed Her New Dream Job!
I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Chuck Dietrich, the CEO of SlideRocket® (www.sliderocket.com), a brand-new online presentation software site that has all the earmarks of quickly becoming a “must-have” tool for job hunters looking for a unique, creative way to break through all the “clutter” surrounding today’s hiring managers and brand themselves as …
How to Effectively Handle ‘Objections’ While Telephone Job Prospecting
Editor’s Note: This blog is an adaptation of the chapter entitled, “Never Rebut an Objection—Roll with it!,” in “‘Headhunter’ Hiring Secrets: The Rules of the Hiring Game Have Changed . . . Forever!, by Skip Freeman.
What is your first “gut” reaction when you encounter an “objection”—“We’re not hiring right now,” “You need to call …
Paterno’s Reaction to Being Fired Predictable, Quite Common One
Notwithstanding the significant moral and legal issues involved (which I will gladly leave to the legal system, the media pundits and Penn State University to sort out and further address), it was nonetheless sad to see the 48-year-long, glorious career of Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno come to such an inglorious—and sudden—end. Here …