Want to optimize your profile? Learn these LinkedIn profile tips 95% of recruiters and hiring managers use LinkedIn to identify best fit passive or active candidates for their job openings. Ninety-five percent. So you need to take these LinkedIn profile tips into account if you want to be found. Why are you on LinkedIn, anyway?…
The U.S. unemployment rate came in at 3.8 percent in March 2019, unchanged from the previous month’s figure, which is good news for most job candidates. But low unemployment doesn’t mean that you can ignore these job search strategies! You still need to market yourself effectively, and articulate your value proposition for employers. 3 Job…
Wonder Why You Can’t Get Hired? Recently, a client retained me to hire three individuals to perform office administrative responsibilities for his small, but rapidly growing company. The position offered excellent professional growth potential as well as a great incentive compensation plan not typically offered to administrative hires. The core competency we were looking for…
If you want to find a job, let employers find you, and the way that’s done in 2019 is through social media. Finding a job was once a matter of scanning job boards like Monster or Careerbuilder – or even the classified ads in print media, back in the day! Data shows in order to…
Time and again, when clients show me their old resumes, I see skills that are completely outdated or irrelevant. Not only does listing these skills take you out of the running, but it really ages you as well. To avoid this career faux-pas, here are the most in demand skills employers look for in 2019.…
When you’re unemployed, or just really, really need to quit your current job, you may wonder if it makes sense to take a lower level job – either in terms of salary, responsibilities, title, or all three. The answer – as with so much in life – is that it depends. And what it depends…
Part of my process as a resume writer is to ask clients to send me 2-3 job postings that they are interested in applying for; reviewing them gives me a good idea of how to position the client’s value proposition for his or her target employer. That leads most people to ask me, “which are…
Temp to Perm is a great way to get hired, especially if you don’t have the exact background an employer is looking for.By signing up with a company like HireArt that provides employers and job seekers the opportunity to try each other out for a specified time, or temp to perm, as it’s called in…