What makes you choose your future career? Is it something personal, or for more professional reasons? This infographic by rasmussen.edu explains. Takeaways: Most 6 years old want to have a sports job, by age 8 that changes to a performing arts job. The most popular major is business management/marketing. The most common career in the US…
Social media is a very dangerous tool to have, especially at work. Here are the top social media fails to stop you doing the same! 1. The over-eager tweeter: Does this look familiar to you? Sometimes, you don’t even wait for the job offer – just the interview is enough to make you hit the…
With more than 225 million business individuals now on LinkedIn, there is a growing trend to ensure that a LinkedIn profile is not only created professionally, but can also be discovered by search engines such as Google. As a result of the public nature of the majority of users’ LinkedIn settings, an increasing number of…
What is a recruiting tragic? A recruiting tragic is a person who just can’t help bringing most things in life back to… recruiting. I admit to being guilty. I know others in the sad club. We don’t want to be like this. We are not proud of the affliction. It’s just in our DNA. Think you may have the ‘curse’? How many…
Is constructive criticism the same as feedback? I don’t think so – but others may beg to differ. I avoid using the word criticism as much as I can (except in a technical ‘literary criticism’ way) as it always feels as if it is negative. It is judgemental in its essence and unpleasant. Most people…
If your LinkedIn profile is written in the 3rd person, stop reading this blog and go change that description of yourself right now. I am dead serious. Nothing annoys me more than inflated egos (most employers think this way), and one simple technique for identifying inflated egos is the reference to the self in the…
LinkedIn is the most professional social network on the internet – but are you missing out on job opportunities? This infographic by LinkedIn in 30 Minutes and AvidCareerist shows you the top 5 reasons why recruiters may not click on your profile. Takeaways: Are you on LinkedIn? That would be a good start… Is your headline…
Did that catch your attention and prompt you to read on? I hope so. In my work, I continue to see people cringe when told that they MUST network if they want to conduct a successful job search. The rational reasons – unadvertised openings, hiring based on trust or simply being in the right spot…
Sourcing has evolved from people who wanted to find more people to an emerging trend, which is how do you fix candidate engagement? Because that piece of sourcing is differentiating people… – Johnny Campbell at SourceCon Building candidate engagement is where the battle is at. As technology gives us more and more access to great talent in the…