5 Tips for Protecting Your Personal Brand on LinkedIn
LinkedIn has become arguably today’s most valuable job searching tool, providing it’s users with endless possibilities for networking, connecting with colleagues from the past, and promoting and developing their businesses. But did you ever stop and think that the way in which you use LinkedIn could actually hurt your job search prospects? Well it can! …
Why Job-Seekers Should NOT Use Letters of Recommendation
Attention spans are extremely short and time is very limited in today’s fast-paced, digital society.
Don’t force a hiring manager to read through a 5-paragraph letter of recommendation (of which only a few sentences really enhance your perceived value anyway). Here are two better ways to use references and referrals as self-marketing tools during your …
Mind Your Manners: 6 Tips for Writing Thank You Notes
If your parents are anything like mine, you’ve learned to say “thank you” when people give you things. Whether it be a gift, a ride, or a compliment most of us would offer a hearty “thanks” in return for someone else’s generosity. The interview process is no different. As someone who interviews for a living, …
Expect the Unexpected: Good Interviewers Ask Follow Up Questions
As an interviewer, it always amazes me how often I trip people up by asking follow up questions. It seems all of these interview prep books and websites like to just list out questions and canned answers but they don’t prepare job seekers for the possibility that the person conducting the interview is going to …
Geysers, Grizzlies, an Active Volcano—and Job hunting!
Yellowstone National Park . . . what image, what brand, immediately comes to mind when you hear these words? For most people it’s the geyser “Old Faithful.” A few others will think of bears and bison, the Great Outdoors, still largely unspoiled by modernity. That’s the image, the brand, of Yellowstone National Park. That’s what …
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 …
SECOND Most Used Website By Recruiters And Companies
Chances are, many if not most of you reading this blog already have your professional profile posted on LinkedIn, the Number One site used today by both recruiters and companies to locate highly qualified people for their open positions. Another site you certainly won’t want to overlook, however, is ZoomInfo (www.zoominfo.com), the SECOND most used …
What ‘Angry Birds’ Can Teach You About Getting Hired
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 …
SIX Mis-Branding Mistakes That Ensure You WON’T Get Hired!
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 …
What Angry Birds can Teach you About Getting Hired
Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of blogs where 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 …