Are you seriously looking for a new job, but figure you can put aside your job search until after the holidays, because it's not a good time to land a job? You're wrong. The holidays are one of the BEST times to land a job, or make strides toward landing first thing in the New Year . . . …
Social Media & Social Networking
Social Recruiting: The Surprising Ways Executive Recruiters Assess Candidates on Social Media
We've all heard stories about how social recruiting can negatively impact executive job search success. Too many executive (and other) job seekers are too fast and easy with their social media posts, and undermine or completely destroy their job search. They let all kinds of damaging things …
Personal SEO in Executive Job Search: What’s in a Name?
Do you have an unusual or uncommon first and/or last name that you've always disliked or even hated, especially when you were younger and endlessly teased about it? These days you're in luck. In the digital age, because building an online presence is such an essential part of career and job …
6 Executive Job Search Email Content Blunders
The meat of your email message – what you include, and don’t include, in the actual content – requires careful consideration. Think of an email message in the same way you would a snail-mailed job search (or business) letter. Always put yourself in the shoes of the recipient. If you’re emailing …
How Your Social Media Use Can Sabotage Your Executive Job Search
How you use social media and your online presence in general matter in executive job search. Hiring decision makers and executive recruiters are "social recruiting". They use social media platforms to identify potential candidates and find information about them. In 2016, …
