For this enormous archive of Q&A I owe a very special thank-you to one ofThe Motley Fool’s founding partners,Erik Rydholm, who found my stuff on Prodigy, adopted me and gave Ask The Headhunter a chance to reach a huge audience on The Fool and America Online. I’d been getting around...
@Tim: You make some strong points, the most important being that a good resume writer becomes your shrink and extracts information you could use to get the job (or interview.) That’s a rare resume writer, if you can find one amidst the marketing of all who offer “free resume reviews....
Average score: 3.6 out of 5 (based on 38 ratings with 2 reviews) Starship Troopers meets Metal Gear Solid The GoodThe high point for Headhunter is the storyline. From the title screen the player is drawn into this not so distant future world. With a nice mix of cut scenes and actual...
I am always reading economic surveys, watching CNBC and Bloomberg, reading company quarterly reports, scanning Glassdoor company reviews, looking at Indeed and Google Jobs. Anything that when combined with other bits of data show trends. Sometimes new data jives with what I have been thinking and...
I’m getting conflicting advice about giving notice before I resign my job after accepting a new job offer. A career coach told me I have to give notice or ruin my reputation. (“Don’t’ burn bridges.”) A guy I used to work with got burned when he gave notice: his boss demanded...
5. “Job seekers use the 4 million employer reviewsto research companies.” So what? They use Google to do the same. Does Google claim it fills jobs? Do we see a trend here? Lots of data showing big numbers, which seem impressive by themselves — but no outcomes analysis. ...
http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Aydin-Displays-Inc-RVW139023.htm And “John Seefeldt” was referring to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania — where the term “civil servant” has been an oxymoron for at least one generation. It’s a pervasive attitude: no Pennsylvania-government...
Although there are only 52 reviews, the majority (77%) are top-star ratings (Amazon). In fact, one five-star review’s headline stated “The most practically useful book I own” (2014) while another declared “Common-Sense Approach To Job Hunting” wherein that poster pointed out your se...
“I get a lot of requests to do such tests but I judge how serious an employer is about me as a candidate by whether they will invest the time to meet me first. I always go the extra mile for a company that demonstrates that level of interest. In fact, if you have time to meet...
However, job fairs have completely gone done since that time. For example, attended what I thought was a positive job fair, up on San Francisco near the Castro Theatre, maybe two months ago. Had a lot of positive conversations and submitted resumes but to date ZERO has come from it! I ...