Posts in Career Management
Unless You’re a Purple Squirrel, Update Your Online Resume!

“Purple squirrel” is recruiter-speak for a candidate whose qualifications are rare and for which a recruiter can charge a higher fee to the company due to the difficulty of the search. When sourcing candidates, recruiters will look first at resumes posted in the last 1 to 2 weeks and will generally not look at older resumes, unless they are searching for that elusive purple squirrel.

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How to Sabotage Your Job Search with Your Resume

An article entitled “25 Things You Should Never Include on a Resume” published a few days ago over on HR World’s blog made me chuckle. Not because most of the items on the list seemed so unbelievably obvious and stupid for a job candidate to include in a resume, but because of the fact that I have actually seen most of them at one time or another in the thousands of executive resumes I have reviewed over the years.

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Beware of “Career Marketing” Predators

They all have the exact same tactic. Fear. They build fear about the career situation, tell you the resume is horrible and then they have the answer. It’s important to realize that these firms are NOT recruiters. They are retail outtplacement or direct mail firms.

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Free Career Networking E-Book

CareerHub, a group careers blog I co-author, has released a series of free eBooks featuring advice from some of the country’s top career experts. The latest is on networking–which is a valuable skill whether you are currently in the job market or happily employed. As one of several co-authors of this eBook, I know that it contains valuable information from the first page to the last.

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Is the Online Networking Craze All It’s Cracked Up to Be?

Is online networking something that you as an executive need to be involved in as part of your career management strategy? All the statistics seem to show that career transition and advancement for the executive is most likely going to occur through networking or referral, …

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Many Employers CANNOT View Your Windows Vista or Word 2007 Resume!

Be aware that any documents you may be forwarding in connection with an employment opportunity (executive resume, cover letter, etc.) that were created on Word 2007 software (which is the version bundled with Windows Vista Operating Systems) CANNOT be opened on another computer that does not have Word 2007.

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Scammers, Spammers, Spoofers, and Phishers: Dangers in the Online Job Search Jungle

Online job search has truly revolutionized career transition in many ways, and I have personally witnessed many success stories of those who have leveraged job sites to identify leads, win interviews, and land great positions.

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How Recruiters Treat the Resume You Send

Wondering what happens to your resume when you e-mail it to an executive recruiter as part of a job search campaign? Contrary to long-standing conventional wisdom, many recruiters are actually more receptive to receiving unsolicited resumes than used to be the case, and they do generate some good responses.

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Don’t Expect an Executive Recruiter to “Market” You

One of the most misunderstood aspects of executive job search among executive candidates seems to be the nature of recruiting firms and how they operate. I have addressed this topic on several occasions, but the fact that I continue to encounter clients who have major misconceptions regarding the recruiter community tells me that this is a message worth repeating: “Do not expect an executive recruiter to ‘market’ you!”

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A New Resource for Company Research

According to Weddles, there is a new and free online resource that can be of help in researching companies during your job search. Of course, traditional resources such as Vault, Brint, and Hoover’s offer a great deal of valuable information, some of it free, but much of it fee-based. The new resource is ZoomInfo.

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