Just a quick note to let you know we have added an About The Authors page to our site. The page provides some basic background on us and may be a bit dry today. We’ll expand upon it soon.
Continue ReadingNew Blog – Salary Stories
I received a comment from Sonia Meisenheimer at PayScale yesterday regarding this post from last month on the Ask Dr. Salary blog. Sonia mentioned that the blog is actually run by PayScale and not CareerBuilder – my bad. PayScale has launched a new blog called Salary Stories which I checked out this morning. I enjoyed the blog and their excellent use of YouTube (should I call that GoogleTube now?). Their description of the blog: Salary Stories are true tales about working people who do what they love and love what they do. The videos are well done – I watched a couple of the interviews and they are quite compelling,… Read More
Continue ReadingMore Cover Emails
Ok, this is a different approach – asking yourself questions in the cover email: Why am I here you ask? I’m seeking a position where I can learn with room for advancement.What type of position am I looking for? I’m open to new experiences, but I would love to be in an office environment. I keep noticing these different approaches and laughing about them. But I do notice them and isn’t that the author’s intent?
Continue ReadingGet the Stress Out
From CareerJournal – The Top 14 Reasons We’re Stressed Out Here are the complete results to the survey’s question, “Have you experienced the following in the past month?” Respondents could point to any of the following 14 options. Rising prices, 74% Too many things to do, 56% Trouble sleeping, 53% Concerns about money for emergencies, 53% Concerns about health in general, 43% Illness of a family member, 36% Not enough money for basic necessities, 36% Too much information to process at one time, 33% Being lonely, 29% Problems with your work, boss or fellow workers, 24% Problems with aging parents, 21% Frequent or excessive noise, 20% Problems with my children,… Read More
Continue ReadingCandidate, Google Thyself
MarketingProfs.com puts out an always interesting enewsletter and this week’s edition is no exception. Have You Been Digitally Dissed? starts out as an article about googling yourself since hiring managers are googling you. …75% of recruiters google candidates, according to a survey by Execunet. We do. In fact, we posted about this topic back in June. The article states: The moral of the story: Google yourself. It’s called self-googling or ego-surfing and you should be doing it regularly. Here is the point I truly enjoyed – the author, William Arruda, employs this premise in the article: If you’re looking to advance in your career, you’ll want to proactively manage your… Read More
Continue ReadingBackground Checks
We’ve written about this topic before. It seems every year we encounter some issue involving background verifications with a candidate or employee. I was hopeful that 2006 was going to break this streak. This morning, I can sadly state, the streak is alive. We have a customer who has hired an employee for a position and ran the background check to find some misdemeanors in the employee’s background. The outcome of their employment is being determined right now, but it serves as a reminder – run background verifications before a candidate joins your company. If you are looking for referrals, may I suggest Verified Credentials? We have found them to… Read More
Continue ReadingIt’s All About the Questions
Here’s a Monday morning thought: There are many facets to successful selling, but none of greater importance than asking the right questions. Think about this, there is nothing prospects like to hear more than their own voice. They have good reason for this – they believe the salesperson is there to talk them into buying something. A fair assumption for sure. The best approach for a salesperson then is to ask the right questions and let the prospect talk. Two critical items underscore this approach. First, the person asking the questions is in control of the conversation. They can direct the topics which leads to the second critical item. The… Read More
Continue ReadingSaturday Morning Humor
This whole premise of this website is funny. (h/t Seth Godin)
Continue ReadingMore Fun With Resume Covers
I have a general weakness for the general resume cover emails. This one is great: Help! I am not an idiot! Ok-I am employed full time-but they think I am incapable of anything but answering the phone, making copies, and filing! I am so much smarter than that.
Continue ReadingSpotting Strong Salespeople
I’m in to analogies this week so I have had this one rattling around in my head for a while. Its Friday so let’s try it. If you are familiar with football and specifically the wide receiver position, you know that their primary purpose is to run fast, accurate routes and catch the football when it is thrown to them. On running plays, they may run hard downfield as a decoy or they may try to block a defensive player. These activities are simply secondary at best to their role. Suffice to say, wide receivers usually have the cleanest uniforms at the end of a game (sans the punter and… Read More
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