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16 Ways To Make Your Online Profile Stand Out On Career Platforms
What is one way to make your online profile stand out on a career-related platform? To help your online profile stand out, we asked social media managers and business leaders this question for their best advice. From using a unique background color in your headshot to...
Get Clear On Your Long-Term Career Vision with 9 Tips
What is one tip to define your purpose and get clear on a long-term career vision? To help you define your purpose and get clear on your long-term career vision, we asked business professionals and leaders this question for their insights. From establishing...
How to Reject a Job Offer: 13 Candidates Share How to Politely Decline
How can a candidate politely reject a job offer after a lengthy interview process? To help you decline a job offer with grace, we asked HR specialists, recruiting professionals, and business leaders this question for their best insights. From being empathetic to...
“Tell me about yourself.”
The most standard of interview questions, “tell me about yourself.” The more often than not answer that trip so many people up. You either are making a great first impression or the hiring manager is wondering how quickly can the interview be finished. Do you answer...
What Makes You a Good Candidate for This Position? 11 Sample Answers
What is one way a candidate can effectively answer the interview question, "what makes you a good candidate for this position?" To help job seekers answer this interview question, we asked HR experts and business leaders this question for their best advice. From...
What Makes You a Good Candidate for This Position? 11 Sample Answers
What is one way a candidate can effectively answer the interview question, "what makes you a good candidate for this position?" To help job seekers answer this interview question, we asked HR experts and business leaders this question for their best advice. From...
Recruiters
8 Cost-Effective Recruiting Strategies for Small Business
In light of the current pandemic, many small businesses are adjusting their budgets weekly. They can cut out frivolities, but companies are looking for creative ways to stretch their money. Eight business leaders explain how their business is executing a cost-effective recruiting strategy.
Ten Tips to Identify the Right Recruiter for You.
Finding the right recruiter can be like looking for a needle in a haystack. Here are a few clues to help you identify a recruiter that will assist you with a new career opportunity.
10 Daily Habits to Improve Your Outlook & Outcomes.
Spend the next 30-days embracing these 10 New Daily Habits and let them become part of a positive personal change that you enjoy for years to come. Read here.
5 Things Recruiters Should Be Doing Today to Build Their Businesses for Tomorrow.
The more time and energy you can spend dedicated to the five tactics in this blog, the better off you’ll be. The economy will recover, and competition will continue to be fierce for great talent and new clients. Those who take advantage of building their brand and pipeline will most certainly land on top.
Chew Up the Meat and Spit Out the Bone – Part III
So, here’s the third part of a three-part story that’s all about managing and listening to criticism at work or as part of a job search process. Part I talked about being able to listen to criticism to help you in your job or job search process.
Go Ahead: Thank Your Worst, Most Terrible Boss.
No one wants to make mistakes – they can be humiliating, frightening and even paralyzing. How we respond to our mistakes, and the reactions from others can be the difference between “waking up” and learning and “shutting down” and carrying a burden for a long time.
Employers
Candidate interview questions hiring managers should ask
In order to ensure that you are hiring the right candidate, you need to do an excellent job recruiting, vetting candidates and of course, conducting in-depth interviews. In fact, some companies are known for putting their candidates through rigorous interviews with several employees to make sure they are the perfect fit for the position.
Survivor’s Guilt
Survivor’s Guilt pertains to how an employee may feel after a massive layoff has occurred. With all of the transitioning that has been caused by the pandemic, I wanted to provide a few scenarios and tips of how to help those move forward after colleagues have been left behind.
12 Tips for Combating Cognitive Overload at Work
Sometimes, there is simply too much information to process at once. Whether it be customer data, inventory, revenue or even keeping up with the constantly changing economy, handling everything is a feat for business owners and employees alike.
In Living Color
Being that we live in “real time,” social media and virtual interviewing has sped up the process of interacting with potential hiring managers like never before. It’s perplexing why candidates opt to use outdated photos of themselves on LinkedIn and other sites that require an image.
13 Great Personal Development Goals for Work
It can be difficult to think beyond the bounds of your everyday duties on the job, but there is a huge benefit to setting and executing personal development goals with regard to work. The more you invest in yourself as a professional, the greater your chances of advancing your career through your newfound skills or knowledge.
Diversity Series Part 1: What’s Your Favorite Food?
With everything that has happened over the last few weeks, I thought about the above concept, as colleagues and media outlets contacted me to gain perspective on the diversity conversation. They wanted to know how hiring practices would be affected as we move forward from the ash and rumble of the riots.
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