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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Time to Resign NOT When Hiring Manager Offers Job!

Editor’s Note: This blog is a modified excerpt from professional “headhunter” and bestselling job-hunting book author Skip Freeman’s next book in the “Headhunter” Hiring Secrets series of job-hunting books, Career Stalled? Publication is scheduled for late fall.

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You finally get the call you’ve been waiting for! The hiring manager you just interviewed with last …

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How Do You Handle the ‘Low-Ball’ Salary Offer?

Editor’s Note: This blog is a modified excerpt from professional “headhunter” and bestselling job-hunting book author Skip Freeman’s next book in the “Headhunter” Hiring Secrets series of job-hunting books, Career Stalled? Publication is scheduled for late fall.

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You literally breezed through all the preliminary “screening” steps in your quest to land a GREAT new …

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Getting to Job ‘Finish Line’ Taking Longer Today

Editor’s Note: This blog is a modified excerpt from professional “headhunter” and bestselling job-hunting book author Skip Freeman’s next book in the “Headhunter” Hiring Secrets series of job-hunting books, Career Stalled? Publication is scheduled for late fall.

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You were a literal “shoo-in” during the initial job candidate telephone “screen.” You also sailed through the …

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Make ‘Next Steps’ Question Last Step in Job Interview

Editor’s Note: This blog is a modified excerpt from professional “headhunter” and bestselling job-hunting book author Skip Freeman’s next book in the “Headhunter” Hiring Secrets series of job-hunting books, Career Stalled? Publication is scheduled for late fall.

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In virtually every job interview you’ll ever have, after you have already been asked—and answered—numerous other questions, …

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Are YOU Laboring in ‘Stable Misery’?

Editor’s Note: This blog is a modified excerpt from professional “headhunter” and bestselling job-hunting book author Skip Freeman’s next book in the “Headhunter” Hiring Secrets series of job-hunting books, Career Stalled? Publication is scheduled for late fall.

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We human beings have an incredible capacity to tolerate and adapt to a very wide range of …

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How to Conduct a ‘Stealth’ Job Search

Editor’s Note: This blog is a modified excerpt from professional “headhunter” and bestselling job-hunting book author Skip Freeman’s next book in the “Headhunter” Hiring Secrets series of job-hunting books, Career Stalled? Publication is scheduled for late fall.

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How do you go about finding a new job when you already have one? Very, very carefully, …

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When it’s ‘Safe’ to Say, ‘Hey, Boss, I’m Looking!’

Editor’s Note: This blog is a modified excerpt from professional “headhunter” and bestselling job-hunting book author Skip Freeman’s next book in the “Headhunter” Hiring Secrets series of job-hunting books, Career Stalled? Publication is scheduled for late fall.

At what point during her new job search do you suppose Marissa Mayer, the new CEO of Yahoo, …

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‘Breaking Up’ IS Hard. ‘Making Up’ can be Worse!

Editor’s Note: This blog is a modified excerpt from professional “headhunter” and bestselling job-hunting book author Skip Freeman’s next book in the “Headhunter” Hiring Secrets series of job-hunting books, Career Stalled? Publication is scheduled for late fall.

Virtually all of us—or certainly most of us!—have experienced “break-ups” of one kind or another in our personal …