Mastering the Behavioral Interview

Most employers don’t get much practice interviewing potential hires and rely on the historical standby questions that are detailed in every job interview book ever written. However, those managers who are more adept and skilled at interviewing candidates will likely adopt behavioral interviewing to...

August 13th, 2010 | Featured, Hiring, Interviewing, Social Media | Read More

The Most Ingenious Way to Land a Job Ever. For Less Than $6.

Alec Brownstein decided he wanted a job with one of NYC’s top creative directors, and wasn’t going to wait around for a job opening to apply. In a bold and impossibly creative move, he spent six dollars and came up with this: Alec’s approach was so simple and so direct, that it will undoubtedly...

May 14th, 2010 | Featured, Interviewing, Networking, Social Media, The Search | Read More

Job Search Experiment Episode 8: Raising Your Profile

In our ongoing real-life, real-time job search experiment with Cleveland sales executive Tim Krenn, we shift our focus to raising Tim’s personal profile online. In earlier episodes, Tim was guided through the process of creating his online persona on assorted social media platforms, crafting his...

March 19th, 2010 | Interviewing, Job Search Experiment, Networking, Social Media, The Search, Video | Read More

Job Search Experiment Episode 7: Your Bio

As we continue our real-life, real-time job search experiment with Cleveland sales executive Tim Krenn, we focus on one of the essential, yet often overlook elements of the job search that may prove even more important than your resume: your online bio. As the job search process shifts even more to the...

March 15th, 2010 | Featured, Interviewing, Job Search Experiment, Networking, Social Media, The Search, Video | Read More

Job Search Experiment Episode 4: Personal Branding Statement

Day 4 of our real-life, real-time job search with Cleveland sales executive Tim Krenn. For those of you just tuning in, we’re documenting the real-life job strategies and efforts of a Cleveland-based sales executive whose looking for a new job. So far, we’ve had Tim create his social media identities...

March 5th, 2010 | Featured, Interviewing, Job Search Experiment, Networking, Social Media, The Search | Read More

Job Search Experiment Episode 3: Creating a Personal Brand

Day 3 of our real-life, real-time job search with Cleveland sales executive Tim Krenn continues with a focus on how to create and market your personal brand. Over the course of our first couple of days, we instructed Tim how to create his social media identities, how to create a blog focusing on his...

March 4th, 2010 | Interviewing, Job Search Experiment, Networking, Social Media, The Search, Video | Read More

Real-life, Real-time Job Search Experiment: Episode 1

This week starts a new real-life real-time experiment detailing the job search efforts of Tim Krenn, a Cleveland sales executive who like millions of Americans recently found himself out of work and in need of a new job. Tim approached me a couple of weeks ago asking for advice on how to refine his...

March 1st, 2010 | Featured, Interviewing, Job Search Experiment, Networking, Resume, Social Media, The Search, Video | Read More

The Social Media Blacklist

The Wall Street Journal published an article yesterday that described how many major search firms actually keep a blacklist of candidates that they would never consider for any job opening. Typically, these firms add candidates to their blacklist who have exaggerated their qualifications, pitted recruiting...

February 3rd, 2010 | Featured, Interviewing, Networking, Social Media, The Search, Video | Read More

5 Ways Social Media Can Cause You to Lose Your Job

Recent studies confirm that over half of employers check their job candidates’ social media profiles and activities before making a hiring decision. As participation across social media platforms increases it’s certain that even more employers will take the time to investigate the online...

January 25th, 2010 | Featured, Interviewing, Social Media, The Search | Read More

How to Increase Your Hiring Value 30x

In a recent series of eBay auctions, consumers paid more than $3600 for previously owned, everyday objects that were purchased from garage sales for $129. These were objects that should never have fetched more than a few dollars but generated bids that amounted to nearly 30x their original cost. So,...

January 18th, 2010 | Featured, Interviewing, Networking, Social Media, The Search | Read More

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