Volunteering Your Way To A Job
It’s no secret the job market is tough. But whether you’ve been unemployed for two months or two years, you can still gain new skills, fill gaps in your resume and network, all the while giving back to your community through volunteering.
Long gone are the days when volunteering meant working in a soup kitchen …
Interview Beyond Your Reach To Achieve Your Best
You know in your heart that special job you want for your own to advance your career, but it is seemingly out of your league. Stop. Think again. Ask yourself, “Is it truly out of my capability, or, with a stretch and helping hand will I be able to pull it off to my delight?”…
Do I HAVE TO Take This Job?
A number of people have asked me if they should take the job offered them. Questions are lingering due to extenuating circumstances they each face. A down economy is a company’s preferred market to find the best employees. Therefore, once you receive a job offer that meets your criteria and offers possible career advancement, I …
Qualify the Remote Office Opportunity
Have you ever worked in a remote office where your opinion was considered remote, as in, “not valued”? My own experience has shown that the people at Headquarters enjoy the most exposure, freedom and reward from their careers.
On the other hand, benefits may be derived from being in a remote office. It is possible …
Sell the Gap On Your Resume
The first step is to approach the problem from a positive standpoint and leave your fear behind. Whenever you meet with clients or hiring managers, …
Truthfulness in Hiring Produces Loyalty
Three threads are interwoven in today’s article. It was the entrepreneurial spirit that significantly helped to develop the United States. Years later, Labor Day was established as a holiday in appreciation for the workforce. And through the years, returning Veterans from war were in need of finding work or establishing a business.
As the author …
Prepare NOW to be Downsized
Are YOU Prepared to be ‘Downsized?’
As this blog is being written, the sputtering economy—once again!—is slowing down. Notwithstanding a few recent glimmers of hope, unemployment remains stubbornly and intractably high. As a matter of fact, a recent news story claimed that chronic unemployment, i.e., unemployment among those who remain without a job for six …
Want To Be “Headhunted”? Here’s How!
Part 2 of the post series “Brand Yourself to be Headhunted”
EDITOR’S NOTE: In last week’s blog we examined what a “headhunter” does, as well as what he or she does NOT do. To briefly recap, a “headhunter’s” primary mission is to find the TOP-performing talent for a hiring company. These TOP performers will currently …
You Lost Me At Hello!
One of the most memorable lines from the 1996 classic movie “Jerry McGuire” comes at the very end.
“I love you. You . . . you complete me. And I just . . . ,” Jerry stammers to Dorothy.
“Shut up. Just shut up,” Dorothy, Jerry’s love interest, responds, “You had me at ‘hello.’”…
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 …