10 Tips to Write an Awful Cover Letter

There are plenty of books, blogs and websites that instruct job seekers how to write the perfect cover letter. Despite the glut of resources available, I still hear stories from hiring managers who share their accounts of horribly written and inappropriate cover letters that they receive daily from...

August 24th, 2010 | Featured, Resume, The Search, Video | Read More

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

Your Most Powerful & Memorable Differentiator: Your Stories

I was reminded today when I read a terrific post on the importance of storytelling in corporate branding at Beg To Differ of the crucial importance of storytelling to job seekers who desperately need to set themselves apart during the job search process. The importance of the personal story was perfectly...

July 29th, 2010 | Featured, Interviewing, Networking, Resume, The Search, Uncategorized | Read More

Top 5 Hiring Lessons From the Nation’s Best Execs

I’ve collected a number of articles and interviews with some of the country’s most innovative and successful executives to discern exactly how they attract highly talented and energized employees to their organizations that continually fuel their success. There was a lot of overlap and similarity...

July 28th, 2010 | Featured, Hiring, Management | Read More

Could Creativity Save the Economy

In a recent interview on NPR, Washington Post business columnist Steven Pearlstein spoke about how big nonbanking companies have been sitting on huge cash reserves, rather than making capital investments. Pearlstein says CEOs love to blame regulation, but there are a host of reasons companies are...

July 16th, 2010 | Featured, Leadership, Management | Read More

Manufacturing Skills in Short Supply

A recent article in the New York Times captured the current employment turmoil that defines our domestic manufacturing sector. Although a number of companies do have staff openings, they’re discovering it’s very difficult to find candidates with the advanced technical skills that the company...

July 7th, 2010 | Featured, Hiring, Management, Strategy, Training | Read More

7 Tips to Ace Your Telephone Interview

Most first job interviews are conducted via telephone. Once your resume has caught the hiring manager’s attention, and they believe that your qualifications match their needs, they will typically call you to determine quickly if you have the potential to fit into their organization. It’s...

June 29th, 2010 | Featured, Interviewing, The Search | Read More

6 Tips For A Great Prezi (The PPT Alternative)

The idea behind Prezi is simple: let’s build an alternative to PPT that isn’t difficult to use, looks great, and is sharable. Prezi has definitely accomplished a lot and you should give it serious consideration for your next presentation for the ‘Wow’ factor alone. You can...

June 14th, 2010 | Featured, Technology, Workplace | 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

E-Mail Rules to Live By

Despite the proliferation of assorted social media platforms and text messaging, the majority of our business communications still takes place using email. Email has the potential to dominate our time and attention if managed improperly, so here are a few email rules to live by that will help make all...

May 6th, 2010 | Communications, Featured, Management | Read More

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