Author: Skip Freeman

Skip Freeman is the author of “Headhunter” Hiring Secrets: The Rules of the Hiring Game Have Changed . . . Forever! and is the President and Chief Executive Officer of The HTW Group (Hire to Win), an Atlanta, GA, Metropolitan Area Executive Search Firm. Specializing in the placement of sales, engineering, manufacturing and R&D professionals, he has developed powerful techniques that help companies hire the best and help the best get hired.
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What ‘Angry Birds’ Can Teach You About Getting Hired

PART IV (Become the ‘Yellow Bird’!)

Author’s Note: This is the fourth in a series of blogs in which author of the best-selling “Headhunter” Hiring Secrets: The Rules of the Hiring Game Have Changed . . . Forever! and professional “headhunter” Skip Freeman draws an analogy between “Angry Birds,” the wildly popular online game, and …

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SIX Mis-Branding Mistakes That Ensure You Won’t Get Hired!

Part Two of Two Parts

In Part I of this two-part blog we looked at three of the six most common mis-branding mistakes that can effectively—and quickly!—eliminate you from the hiring game. In this, the second part of the blog, we’ll examine the other three most common mis-branding mistakes that can practically guarantee that you …

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SIX Mis-Branding Mistakes That Ensure You WON’T Get Hired!

Part one of two parts

As a professional “headhunter” who deals with candidates and hiring managers each and every business day, I see the same “mis-branding” mistakes being made over and over by candidates every single day. (You can be assured that other “headhunters,” hiring managers and Human Resources professional also see them, each and …

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What Can “Angry Birds” Teach You About Getting Hired?

Part 1 (the pig’s lair)

What in the world can “Angry Birds,” the ubiquitous, phenomenally popular game for hand held devices by Rovio Mobile, teach you about getting hired? You might be surprised to learn that the answer to this question is PLENTY!

“Angry Birds” just passed the 100 million downloads mark. If you have …

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How Do You Get Hired? First, Don’t Lose!

In the Amazon.com bestselling job hunting book “Headhunter” Hiring Secrets: The Rules of the Hiring Game Have Changed….Forever! we teach you how to approach getting hired using game theory. In other words:

Hiring is definitely a game It has rules (which have dramatically changed since 2009) And there are strategies

And when you approach going …

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2011 Job Market to Become Even More Competitive

If you thought last year’s job market was tough—and it certainly was!—then brace yourself for the 2011 job market because it could shape up to be a whole lot tougher! To effectively and successfully compete in the 2011 job market you’re really going to have to “up your game”!

Applicant-to-job ratio

You’re probably familiar with …