If you’ve recently decided to find your new executives and senior management through an executive search and selection agency, then here’s how to find and evaluate those agencies before you sign up.
There are thousands of recruitment agencies, big and small, but only a minority focus solely on recruiting for executive, senior manager and director-level […]
Recruiting a senior manager or director for your business can be expensive. Placing adverts in the right papers and journals is a huge expense in itself. If you’re recruiting at the top level in your business, it may be more cost-effective for you to use an executive search agency.
Did you know that, in some […]
The first step to determine if the offered opportunity is legitimate and realistic is to look whether the advertising style is overpromising: easy money immediately and without experience.
Stay away from these kind of offers. Go to Google and type in phrases you are interested in and start doing some background work. It will pay off […]
Marketing communications copywriter Charlie Trumpess takes a humorous look at how best to tackle that age old terror, the job interview.
Let’s face it, job interviews are about as much fun as a hot wax with no anaesthetic. After all, attempting to showcase your talents to a bunch of strangers, usually against the clock […]
Joel Cheeseman has a blog on online recruitment - http://cheesman.typepad.com/ - and has recently written an e-book called ‘ Battling Free’ - http://www.hrseo.com/battlingfree/ - on his contention that sites such as Craigslist - http://www.craigslist.org/ - and search engines like Google Jobs - http://www.google.com/jobs/ - and Yahoo! Hot Jobs - http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ - are ’spearheading an ongoing […]
Another morning of job hunting lies ahead of you. You pour a cup of coffee and open the paper to the employment section. With a mixture of anticipation and desperation you pick up a stub of pencil and prepare to target and identify some possible job opportunities.
There are less ads to circle this morning […]
Have you ever been in a job interview where you were asked what your weaknesses were?
Yeah, I know — the idea is to give a weakness that could also be viewed as a strength!
The truth is that weaknesses can be strengths and vice versa. And one of my weaknesses is being a perfectionist.
But I’m […]
A job interview is stressful. The person who hasn’t made a lot of changes isn’t practiced at what is involved (nor should they want to be), and the person who has made a lot of changes doesn’t have any idea as to what’s involved either, or they wouldn’t be making so many changes!
Preparing for […]
Creating a job search cover letter doesn’t need to be a laborious process. Effective cover letters are short, skimmable and easy to read (a good rule of thumb no matter WHERE your cover letter is going) - three to four paragraphs tops.
If you are answering an ad, address the requirements in the ad […]
1. A BLAND OR GENERIC OBJECTIVE: If your objective could be applied to a marketing resume as easily as a resume for an accounting position, then your objective says nothing and will get you nowhere. An objective is NOT some required paragraph at the top of the page that is an exercise in 5 lines […]