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Ask Your Own Questions When a Recruiter Calls

Whether you are looking or not, it is awesome to get a call from a recruiter. This means someone in your network recommended you or that the recruiter found your online brand impressive to take the ti

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Secure? Are You Sure?

A recent study from Gallop reveals that while 58 percent of U.S. full- and part- time workers are completely satisfied with their job security – the question remains, what is wrong with the other two

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The Idea of Connectivity

Recently, I heeded the advice of so many to start your day off by being inspired by someone you know or want to know better. I met for an early, pre-dawn coffee with fellow HR professional and consult

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Are Your Employees Satisfied or Happy? 

More and more employers are looking past achieving employee “satisfaction” and “engagement” and aiming for employee “happiness.” A recent article on the SHRM website got me thinking about the differe

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What To Look For On a Resume

As hiring professionals, we can be guilty of taking a resume too seriously. We can treat it as a be all, end all document that we line up next to the job description and if we cannot check off a majo

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Approach Interviewing as a Conversation, Not an Interrogation

Interviews can be uncomfortable – and not just for the candidate. That’s because far too often an interview becomes a one-way conversation. You throwing question after question at a candidate while

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The Entrepreneurial Interviewer

Whether you are one, have worked for one, or simply know one, you are probably well aware of the entrepreneur’s mentality. And if not, seek one out because one great way to succeed in the job search

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Make Your Resume Count (to Six)

Count to six. One-one-thousand, two-one-thousand… and when you get to six, that’s it. Six seconds is how long, on average, a recruiter will look at your resume. This is not according to some sort of

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Use Your Hand to Land the Maximum Job Offer

Congratulations – you’ve sent your resume, achieved a first, second, and maybe even third interview and you’ve gotten a job offer.

So the tables are turned – to quote George Costanza, you now have “h

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Are You a “Crazy” Great Leader?

I am not sure how I got on this topic with our marketing guy, but we were talking about what he would consider the most effective marketing campaigns in our lifetime.  His favorite was Apple’s “Think

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