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Why You Didn’t Get the Job
It’s always tough to find out you didn’t land the job you were interviewing for. You put energy into it, took time off, started to get more excited about it, only to be rejected. Most people want to know why, and specifically why at that. For the candidates we work
Why Utilize a Recruiting Firm
From time to time we are asked why a company should utilize a recruiting firm. Reading the headlines, you’d think there’s so many people in the job market looking, that hiring is easy. It’s not, there’s a large number of competing jobs open–Linkedin alone has over 34,000 job postings for
Effective Job Hunting Techniques
When you suddenly find yourself in the job market, your company unexpectedly shuttered or cancelled programs, downsized, it’s understandable to be rattled and emotionally crushed. Take a few days to regroup, then get your game on to land a new role. You’ll need to be organized, deploying your very best
Putting Tech Layoffs into Perspective
Yesterday I sat down with 4 Wall Street Journals from the week, catching up. The take away was confusing–several articles about tight talent market, several more on tech layoffs, a couple on productivity, workers not putting in the hours they used to, that sort of thing. NYU’s Scott Galloway did
Playing to Win in the Talent Game
The war for talent is here. And it’s not going away anytime soon. In fact, according to Fortune the talent market will remain highly competitive until 2031 – nearly another decade! The reasons have been known to us all. The Great Resignation is on-going with nearly 4 million quits this past December
Employee Engagement Is More Critical Than Ever
For a while now, we’ve known that candidates who joined their employer in 2020 or later are more likely to take our recruiting calls and explore options. They may never have met their team in person, perhaps never had a lunch or went out for drinks after work, didn’t experience
There’s a Lot of Candidates in the Market, Why Haven’t You Landed the Right Person?
by Bill Firing CEOs and their hiring organizations have quickly learned that talent acquisition in the COVID-19 era has been more challenging than expected. And those that have adapted their hiring practices to the sensitivities of the candidate market have been more successful in landing top-tier talent. First, the realizations
Keeping your Career Ontrack in the Covid Era
We're in the next phase of the pandemic, it's time to think about your job, advancement or simply keeping it when you are working from home.
Your Offspring is Entering the Workforce
When spring approaches, we will undoubtedly get numerous requests from parents to help their son or daughter entered the workforce. After spending all that money on a college education, of course parents want their child to succeed. We offer in depth coaching for new college graduates where we review resumes,
Tell Me About Yourself…
Almost every interview probably starts with “Tell me about yourself”. And surprisingly most interviewees botch that question. Most start way back in time, maybe college or sigh, earlier, and tell a very boring tale of how they got a bachelors degree, where they went to work, where they went from
