Why Hiring Stalls And Recruiters Don’t Communicate With You
About a month ago I was asked by the CEO of a company I work with to find a front end developer. That is someone who specializes in making a …
Recruiters
All things recruiters – for and from job seekers.
A Recruiter Is a Broker Not an Agent
I searched “broker” on google and got this (supposedly from wikipedia and LinkedIn): A broker is a person or firm who arranges transactions between a buyer and a seller for …
Understanding Headhunter Ethics #AskTheHeadhunter
When I was in my 2006 job search I thought that recruiters, headhunters, etc. would be my best friends. I thought I would get on their radar, they would be …
When you rely on recruiters for your next job…
You are setting yourself up for a longer, depressing, hard job search. This is absolutely not bashing on recruiters. Ask many of them and they’ll tell you the same thing. …
Job Search and Recruiter Scams: YUCK!
It’s hard enough being a job seeker without having to deal with this junk. Nick Corcodilos calls out a certain scam in this post: Job applications are the biggest recruiting …
Open Letter to Job Seekers from a Recruiter (my response)
Last week I read Mary Faulkner’s post, An Open Letter to Job Seekers. I thought it was going to be a scathing response telling job seekers to not whine so …
Why Recruiters Don’t Call Back
“Network with recruiters,” they said. I did. About 30 of them. It was an exercise in ME reaching out to THEM and rarely hearing anything back from them. I didn’t …
How to make job postings 1,000 times more valuable
I don’t know when this changed, but when it did, it made a job posting lose most of it’s value: Compensation: Commensurate with experience Are you kidding? Based on the …
The Resume Black Hole: Disappointing Proof from CareerXroads
In a Wall Street Journal blog post (For Job Seekers, the Black Hole Persists), there’s disappointing and perhaps disgusting proof that the resume black hole is there. Like anyone in …
6 Secrets of The New Interview + JibberJobber and Job Search Organizing
Nick Corcodilos, Ask the Headhunter, shared 6 Secrets of the New Interview from his book, The New Interview (an instruction book), on this blog post. Here are his six, with …