There is a raging debate on how much bad news we should share with those around us. My day usually begins with reading several newspapers keeping an eye on the business and careers sections because that is the way in which I can keep informed on things that apply to my work. Often my cut-and-paste mentality kicks into high gear and I share things that interest me with my colleagues. Private emails and follow-up phone… Read More »Optimism in Times of Trial
There is an often quoted saying that wisdom comes from the mouth of babes. Children don’t have a trained filtering mechanism in place and their wise sayings are sometimes the revelation of truths that grown-ups don’t see or don’t want to see. They also have the beginnings of a mechanism to reorganize the truths into something more understandable to their level of development which may be totally distorted. My son went to a nursery school… Read More »The Job Seeker’s Guide To The Galaxy And Other Places
Congratulations on surviving the interview. Unless yours is one of the rare cases where everything falls into place on the first try, this wasn’t your first interview and it may not be your last. Hopefully, thinking like a recruiter gave you an edge over those who remained in the rut of thinking only about their own agenda regardless of the consequences. But now you are faced with the age old question about how to build… Read More »Job Seekers: Think Like a Recruiter – Part 10
In the politically correct recruiting world, there are three subjects that are unmentionable. To break the taboo can result in replacing cooperation, professional courtesy and friendship with polarized rhetoric, unwavering bias and strife. Of course the forbidden trio of subjects are: religion, politics and the candidate experience. The reason that there is so much disagreement on the subject of the “candidate experience†is that those words mean different things to different people and most who… Read More »How To Become a Lightning Rod Recruiter
If you have done the homework on yourself and the company you have targeted, you are ready for a dialog with recruiters, hiring managers or peers. If you have felt some sort of discouragement at the length of the process to get you to this point, you are not alone and it is for good reason. From the recruiter perspective, think of this process as a funnel where large volumes of candidates enter at the… Read More »Job Seekers: Think Like a Recruiter – Part 9