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Career Goals: Does Your Resume Reflect the Future?

December 5, 2019

By Kristen Harris Resumes are tricky documents! It seems so simple–just drop in all of your past jobs and skills, make it look good, and you’re done–right? Not exactly. A great resume includes the past, present, and future of your career, highlights your top skills, shares professional affiliations, touts past successes, and clearly shows why you’d be great for the job. Also, you have about six seconds to catch the reader’s attention before they move on. Phew! There’s a lot of advice available about how to best capture and present

How To Love A Job Search

February 26, 2019

By Catherine Lang-Cline I know what you are thinking, is it even possible to love a job search? I’m here to say that it can be. That is because with every change there comes opportunity, so if you look at it with those glasses on you will see the possibilities. Let’s get really real for a moment. If you are laid off or if you are fired you can feel a bit scared or hopeless. You might also feel very relieved. Regardless of what brought you here, you need to

The Black Hole: You Aren’t Alone

July 10, 2018

By Derik Abbott One of the most common pain points we hear from candidates that come into our office is their inability to get responses to their resume submittals for openings online. While this might seem like something that is only affecting you, rest assured, it’s an epidemic that plagues all job searches out there. We, as recruiters, actually see this happen with a lot of hiring managers we work directly with (most we’ve met in person and have some level of relationship with). It’s something that everyone from job

Your Career: Five Common Job Search Mistakes

August 14, 2017

By Kristen Harris Looking for work might seem like a fairly straightforward process but, in fact, it’s quite complex. There are several steps, a series of interactions, and multiple people involved in your search. Each stage of the process is filled with nuance and details. One false move can take you out of the running, and you may not even know it. The job search process is challenging and stressful enough without putting barriers in your own way. Check yourself…are you making any of these five common job search mistakes?

Your Resumé: Is It Time for a Digital Upgrade?

June 29, 2017

First of all, let’s put to rest the rumor that resumés are dead. Passé. Outdated. Sorry, but they’re not. While the demise of the resumé has been predicted for years, currently they are still a standard requirement for most companies. Yes, you can direct people to your website or LinkedIn profile, and they may check you out on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and lots of other places online, but all of that is secondary information. The reality is that, once you get into the hiring process, most companies will expect you

You’re Hired: Five Tips to Prepare for a Great Interview

April 26, 2017

By Kristen Harris You have an interview! Maybe you’re a little nervous. It probably feels like there are a thousand things to remember. Whether it’s your first interview, or you haven’t interviewed in twenty years, being prepared can help tilt the outcome in your favor. There are two sides to every interview, the person interviewing you and YOU. While it may seem like the interviewer holds all the cards, you have total control over one half of that equation. Keep in mind that you both want the same thing— for

3 Great Reasons To Always Be Updating Your Resume

September 2, 2016

By Catherine Lang-Cline When you lose your job, or choose to find another job, it is the natural first step to update your resume. But waiting to update it after 3, 5, or 10 or more years can work against you. Here are 3 great reasons to always be updating your resume. It is difficult to remember all of your accomplishments. Unless you are taking notes as you go, I am sure that you have achieved a lot more then you can remember on your job. It is much more

What are employers really looking for? Part 2

April 30, 2009

In Part 1 we talked about how important performance and behavioral skills are to our clients, based on the results of a recent survey. In a nutshell, very important.

Clients ranked “performance skills–soft skills like communication, team player, flexible, etc” an entire point higher than anything else, an average of 4.0 out of 5.0 points. This was significantly higher than technical skills, experience level, work samples or work history, all at 2.6-2.9 out of 5.0. Of those four items “work samples, examples of the

Want to learn more about playing up your strengths?

October 10, 2008

Tom Rath’s Strengths Finder 2.0 is a book for anyone who is looking to play up their strengths in their current position or when job hunting. This short book is designed to go with a website where you take a couple of short quizzes to determine your five main strengths, i.e. organization or creativity. Once you have your results you can read about them in the book. The book also focuses on how to play up these strengths when working in a team to be more

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