Although the number of job postings coming out of Silicon Valley has trended downward since 2015, this tech mecca is still seen as a desirable place to work. Despite the rarefied reputation of this locale, techniques for landing a job…
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Before You Accept That Job Offer: Learn as Much as You Can about the Prospective Employer’s Organizational Culture
You’ve received an excellent and tempting job offer. You want to accept. All the terms look promising. But you don’t know as much as you want to about what it’s like to work for this employer. How to research? To…
Navigating a Job Search When You’re Employed
Especially for executives, job search while employed is tricky. First, at the executive level, “passive” candidates, those NOT looking for a job, are far more valued than “active” candidates. And unfair as it is, the thinking goes that if you…
6 Tips for Successfully Responding to Brainteaser Interview Questions
Brainteaser questions require you to answer an unusual or abstract question and develop a suitable answer based on logic, analysis and hypothesis. They are used to assess your capability to solve a complex problem. In many cases, you are not…
Criteria to Consider in Choosing Recruiters
The final step before beginning to contact recruiters is to think through just what kind of recruiter is best suited for your position search. Here are some criteria to consider: Retained vs. contingency. As a general rule, you will get…
Contacting and Following Up With Recruiters
Once you select your target recruiters, you must build a campaign to contact them. No one right way exists to contact recruiters; each is different, and each situation is different. Having the right materials, using the right methods, having the…
How Do Recruiters Want To Deal With You?
The unique business model of the recruiting industry is that the client firm is the customer, and you, the candidate, are the product. The recruiter has a choice of “inventory” models regarding how to manage you as the product. A…
3 Ways to Tap into a Pipeline Job
Now that you have the skinny on the unpublicized job market, let’s look at how you can break into it. When job-seekers search for new jobs, one of the most important elements of a successful search is developing job leads.…
Nabbing a Job While It’s Still in the Pipeline
Have you ever conducted a job-search and thought to yourself that there must be more job openings than those found through online job searches? Guess what? You’re right! If you are simply searching online, you are missing out on as…
Pre-Employment Screenings and Assessments are Ubiquitous but Need Not be Stress-Inducing
Employers are increasingly using pre-screening and assessment techniques early in the interviewing process, typically after one or more initial phone screenings and before the first face-to-face interview or between the first and second interview. Sometimes they are used only when…
The executive job market is fiercely competitive and requires a multi-channel marketing approach. Landing an Executive Position is filled with strategies and resources to help the senior-level executive land the next position quickly.
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