This is a special posting connected to the presentation: Ask The Headhunter / How to Work with Headhunters, and without them Cornell University Johnson School of Management March 5, 2011, in Palisades, NY (I posted a preview of the topic here: Good Headhunters: They search for living resumes.) I’ll add more content here after the event [...]
In the February 8, 2011 Ask The Headhunter Newsletter, a reader asks how to persuade a company to focus on skills, rather than on 12 years of jumping from job to job: I have had 10 jobs in 12 years. All have been increasing in experience from a lowly copier technician, to parts runner, to computer technician, [...]
We discuss references here periodically — most recently, in We don’t need no stinking references. While many companies dismiss references as an afterthought, and job hunters think they can get by without them, I believe references are the coin of the realm. Employers shouldn’t hire anyone without checking them (though by “checking them,” I don’t mean [...]
In the December 14, 2010 Ask The Headhunter Newsletter, a reader asks how to best answer an age-old interview question: Many job-related sites talk about this interview question, but none suggest how to best answer it. The question is, “Where do you see yourself in five years?” Obviously, this question relates to a person’s goals, but it [...]
In the November 9, 2010 Ask The Headhunter Newsletter, a reader thinks I’m giving bad advice that costs people job offers. Or at least interviews. You decide: You regularly advise against divulging past salary in an interview because it might prejudice an employer’s offer. I disagree with you. After going on over 25 interviews (most were second [...]
This is a special posting connected to the Harvard Business School Career Management Webinar I presented on November 3, 2010. I’ll add more content here after the event — but the main purpose is to answer questions we didn’t have time for during the hour, and to carry on the discussion. Can you stand out [...]
In the November 2, 2010 Ask The Headhunter Newsletter, a manager makes a complaint and a request. Listen up: I am speaking both as a frustrated hiring manager and as a job hunter. When I was job hunting, I always made it clear that I wanted the job. I expressed this verbally during the interview and in [...]
So, why do employers ask for references, then never bother to contact them? Guess they don’t really need no stinking references, eh? A reader asks: I found a job listing on Craigslist that interested me. I did some homework and liked what I found out about the company, and I sent my resume and cover [...]
In the October 26, 2010 Ask The Headhunter Newsletter, a reader asks: One thing that has kept me from seeking other employment is that I don’t want to lose the four weeks of vacation time I’ve built up. Are vacation benefits negotiable? Everything is negotiable, but not every negotiation is winnable… The position many companies take has never [...]
MediaBistro led me to the latest career advice in Fortune.com’s Ask Annie column: Employer’s Wacky Interview Questions. I don’t know what’s wackier: the questions, or that Annie Fisher really believes that the mission of career advisors is to come up with clever answers for them. Get this question from an Ask Annie reader: Yesterday an interviewer [...]
