Archive for June, 2007

Minority workers still fighting job recruiters’ misconceptions

Posted on 30. Jun, 2007 by Bill.

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Minority workers still fighting job recruiters’ misconceptions
Ken Arroyo Roldan says that there is little diversity at the senior levels in American companies today, and executive search firms share much of the blame for that fact.
By the way, Roldan works for an executive recruiting company.
“We are the perpetuators,” he says. “We control a lot of the [...]

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Mistakes That People Make When Working With A Recruiter

Posted on 29. Jun, 2007 by Bill.

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Mistakes That People Make When Working With A Recruiter By Carl Mueller
I began working as a recruiter in 2000 around the time that the dot com bubble started bursting and shortly after companies had exceeded their Y2K budgets and had no money to hire new staff. It wasnt the best time to be looking [...]

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Balance is the key to a successful job search

Posted on 27. Jun, 2007 by Bill.

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Balance is the key to a successful job search
Once in a while, job searching is easy. In the morning you contact a company, and by afternoon you receive a phone call to schedule a meeting. Thirty minutes into the interview, they offer a position on the spot.
Other times, it takes a bit longer. You spend [...]

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Acing the Informational Interview

Posted on 27. Jun, 2007 by Bill.

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Acing the Informational Interview
Baby boomers pursuing environmental or personal interests after retirement, executives fleeing downsizing companies, and restless upstarts pushing for higher pay all have one thing in common: They are part of a trend of professionals starting second careers, a trend that recruiters and coaches now call “recareering.”
As companies struggle to retain talent and [...]

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How to Use a Networking Site

Posted on 26. Jun, 2007 by Bill.

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How to Use a Networking Site
Amid all the chatter about user-generated content and Web 2.0, another class of Web services has been quietly gaining momentum. Call it the “professional Web”: online services designed explicitly to help you manage your career and do your job better. LinkedIn, for one, has been adding 120,000-plus members a week [...]

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How to handle a telephone job interview

Posted on 26. Jun, 2007 by Bill.

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How to handle a telephone job interview
Telephone interviews are an increasingly popular – and time-efficient – way of pre-screening job applicants to narrow the candidate field before a face-to-face interview.
And, sooner or later, if you are determined about your career progression it is an audition you will have to get through, so it makes sense [...]

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Unleashing Your Many Identities

Posted on 25. Jun, 2007 by Bill.

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Unleashing Your Many Identities – From Business Week
Marci Alboher is a lawyer-turned-journalist/speaker/writing coach who knows that she introduces herself with an abundance of labels and punctuation. She does it on purpose, because she’s hell-bent on spreading the message that people should be unleashing their many identities. For her new book, One Person/Multiple Careers, she interviewed [...]

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Resume should highlight skills, not duties

Posted on 24. Jun, 2007 by Bill.

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Resume should highlight skills, not duties
John Grobe has seen a lot of resumes in his career, and that means he’s seen a lot of mistakes.
Grobe is president of a company called Federal Career Experts, based in the Chicago area, which provides career advice for people who are working in the federal government, or would like [...]

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Surprising Six-Figure Jobs

Posted on 24. Jun, 2007 by Bill.

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Surprising Six-Figure Jobs
It’s always been true that if you want to earn more money, you should think about going back to school.
But how many people realize that so many teaching posts could carry six-figure salaries?
According to the latest statistics from the U.S. Department of Labor showing average salaries for a range of occupations, six categories [...]

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After a Successful Interview, It’s Your Turn to Ask Questions

Posted on 23. Jun, 2007 by Bill.

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After a Successful Interview, It’s Your Turn to Ask Questions
It’s especially nice to feel wanted after you’ve gone through the often-daunting exercise of looking for a job. All those hours of tinkering with your résumé and driving all over town for interviews can make you ready to accept anything that meets your minimum salary needs, [...]

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Boomers find second career in midlife

Posted on 19. Jun, 2007 by Bill.

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Boomers find second career in midlife
Data from a recent government study show that baby boomers are expecting to spend more of their lives working, possibly reversing a century-long trend toward earlier retirement.
In addition to being able to work longer, baby boomers – usually defined as those born from 1946 to 1964 – are also staying [...]

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Top Tips For Incorporating Your Personal Brand In Your Job Search

Posted on 18. Jun, 2007 by Bill.

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Top Tips For Incorporating Your Personal Brand In Your Job Search from Distinctive Career Services, LLC
When you think about your next career move, how would things be different for you if you were HUNTED rather than being the HUNTER? Personal branding (the process of clarifying and communicating what makes you and your unique value proposition [...]

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Secrets of working with a recruiter

Posted on 18. Jun, 2007 by Bill.

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Secrets of working with a recruiter
Q. I’m thinking of working with a headhunter to expand my job search. Is this worthwhile?
A. If you’ve never worked with a recruiter before, beware of anyone who asks for money up front. I’ve heard too many sad stories of people who paid thousands of dollars for empty promises. Unless [...]

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