Last year I had the chance to speak with FM WRHU in New York. The station is affiliated with Hofstra University, so as you can imagine the topics centered on recent college graduates and their ability to find work in their field of study. I carefully monitor the Bureau of Labor Statistics’
I’m currently an executive recruiter—haven’t always been and might not always be. For the last decade of my 26-year career, however, it’s what I've done every day. Through securing and facilitating thousands of job interviews between companies and their prospective employees, I’ve observed many idiosyncrasies that contribute to the successes and failures
We recently conducted milewalk’s Annual Employment Survey for 2014. The results showed interesting trends, some that held from 2013 and others that changed. One of the major statistical categories we capture is how people found their most recent job. We think this information will be extremely helpful to not only job candidates
Admit it. You’ve done it before. You interviewed with a company and well into the recruitment process found a few extra pennies under your compensation mattress. There they laid peacefully only to surface once you received the job offer—the expense reimbursement for your cell phone or that 401K matching you forgot. Employers
I often argue one of the biggest mistakes people make when they change jobs is that that don’t know themselves. Specifically, I don’t think they have a complete handle on what makes them happy in their professional lives. Beyond that, I also feel it’s important for employees to fully understand their overall
In Part One of Overcoming the 2 Greatest Job Changing Challenges, I highlighted what I consider those challenges to be and how to overcome the first (self-awareness related to your career). In this post, let’s address overcoming the second challenge related to eliciting information from the potential employer to determine if the
As you can imagine in my position, I receive many inquiries from job searchers. Since it's extremely difficult to spend the appropriate amount of time with each of them, I thought I'd share what I consider to be the art of a successful job search. I won't go so far as to say
You’re probably wondering what those job changing challenges are, but before I share that and the ways to overcome them, I’d like to back up to zero hour. I understand your career is important to you, but I’m writing this post assuming your overall happiness is most important to you. Of course,
When it comes to your job search, the title of this post is true. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. It's your life. It's their company. I decided to post a portion of the first chapter of Interview Intervention: Communication That Gets You Hired as today's post because as we head into
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