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Recruiter reveals salary negotiation strategies
The way in which you present your requests during salary negotiations has a dramatic impact on whether you get what you want from an employer. Be firm, but flexible, self-confident, but not arrogant or demanding, and sell your skills and knowledge in a way that...
How recruiters read resumes
If you are frustrated with how long your job search is taking and why you’re not getting enough interviews despite sending out many applications, it is time to understand how recruiters read resumes. In my 9 years of recruitment experience and 7 years of working as an...
Preparing Yourself For The Five Hardest Questions You’ll Get Asked At Interviews
The job interview. Considering the importance that most companies place on it to determine the person who will be the best fit for an open position, it’s not surprising that it causes most interviewees sleepless nights and bags of nervous energy. The plethora of books...
Top tips to improve your LinkedIn Summary
This article is part of the "LinkedIn tips" series. If you are a job seeker and are not using Linked In properly, you are missing out. LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network with 364 (April 2015) million members in over 200 countries and territories...
7 Phrases To Delete From Your LinkedIn Profile
This article is part of the "LinkedIn tips" series.An interesting practice seems to have cropped up among self-written social media profiles. Phrases that are taboo on resumes like, “Self-motivated team player,” are creeping back into lists of job hunter credentials...
How to build effective relationships with recruiters
On a regular basis, I hear clients or candidates saying that they’ve been contacting lots of recruiters but they still haven’t got a job through them. The problem is that a lot of people have unrealistic expectations for the recruiter/job seeker relationship. The...
How the Myers Briggs Type Indicator Can Help Your Career
Of the numerous instruments designed to assess personality type, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® or MBTI® instrument is undoubtedly the most widely used and well-known. What’s it for? How does it work? How can it help? The purpose of the Myers-Briggs assessment,...
Leadership interview questions and answers
This article is part of the "Interview Questions tips" series.A few days ago I wrote an article about how to describe your leadership abilities and experience during a job interview. If you’ve missed it, you'll find a link at the bottom of this article. Given the...
How would you describe your leadership style?
This article is part of the "Interview Questions tips" series. When it comes to interviews, different questions are asked for different posts and positions. Clearly, there will be a one set of questions asked for the profile of a general manager and different set of...
How to keep going when the going gets tough
How to keep going when the going gets tough is a question we all face from time to time. We all encounter times when life is tough, and we may wonder if we are ever going to get to where we want to be, whether we have what it takes to get there, or even if we have...
