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 …
Frustrated By ‘Post and Hope’ Job Hunting? Try This!
Job hunting going into 2012 continues to be the most brutal and challenging it has been since the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it certainly doesn’t look as though it’s going to get any easier anytime soon, either. Believe me, as the title of my book (“Headhunter” Hiring Secrets: The Rules of the Hiring …
Hiring Secrets from a ‘Lazy’ ‘Headhunter’
Still Job Hunting Online, Never Hearing Back? Try This!
If you are the typical job hunter in today’s job market, I strongly suspect that you are among the legions of those who are doing the same things over and over and still expecting different results. (Isn’t that the true definition of “insanity”?!) What I’m referring to here concerns going to the job boards to …
How to Answer the Dreaded ‘Salary Question’
It’s a question that you can expect to be asked sooner rather than later during a job interview. It’s a question that seems to be a “loaded” one in every sense of the word, and usually that’s in fact what it is. It’s a “trick” question too. It’s designed to quickly and efficiently eliminate as …
Job Hunting Frustrations? Consider Becoming ‘The Rag Man’
As a job hunter today you can expect to encounter many frustrations during the job search. Perhaps one of the more frustrating situations concerns the question of why you never get any kind of response from a company or hiring manager you have so diligently pursued using a number of key contact methods in a …
Seal (or Lose!) the Deal Over the Interview Meal
The phone interview accomplished its mission, i.e., you’ve been invited to the next round. You are now at corporate headquarters for a series of face-to-face interviews. They seem to have been going well when the interviewer says, “Let’s go to lunch (dinner).”
At the end of the process, you are not offered the job! What …
Warning! The Telephone Job Interview Can be a ‘Trap’!
Great news! All your job search activities have paid off and you’ve landed a telephone interview with a prospective employer. This is an opportunity, correct? Well, yes and no. You have made it all the way to “round one,” and that’s certainly something positive, something to celebrate. But wait! You still have to go into …
9 Fatal Mistakes Most Employed People Make Today
You are employed. You are extremely busy. In fact, you are harried, frazzled, and oftentimes, any semblance of a good work/life balance seems a very distant, almost quaint memory.
Additionally, you have seen your colleagues downsized. You have either gone without pay raises or the ones you have received have been less than hoped for. …
Beware the ‘Tell me about your boss’ Question!
Imagine for a moment that an exceptional job candidate is about thirty minutes into an important job interview. The candidate, whom we’ll call Joe, and the hiring manager seemed to have hit it off almost from the start. Joe has nailed every job-related question the hiring manager has thus far asked him. Because the hiring …