Posts in Job Change Etiquette
Do Your Homework Before that Executive Job Interview!

The bottom line is that it is so easy nowadays to find a wealth of information about a company you are considering or one that you are scheduled to interview with that there is just no good excuse not to do so! Shame on the candidate who shows up at the interview without substantial knowledge about the company whose representative is sitting on the other side of the desk!

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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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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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Does Your Cover Letter Come Across as Pompous?

The fact that many job seekers compose cover letters (and resumes, for that matter) that come across as pretentious and verbose is something that I witness every single day. Certainly a cover letter for an executive will have a more sophisticated tone than one for an entry level worker, but neither should be flowery or seem to be obviously trying to impress the reader with multi-syllable words where simple ones will do just fine.

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Holding the Salary Card Close to the Vest

Career and compensation experts en masse advise against revealing your salary requirements too early in the game, despite veiled (or not so veiled) threats that candidates will be disqualified from consideration if they do not comply.

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