In the July 19, 2011 Ask The Headhunter Newsletter, a job hunter interviews for a job and gets no call back, but really, really wants the job and is… uh… freaking out: I interviewed for job A and job B at the same company. After two interviews for job B, I was told I would be [...]

In the June 14, 2011 Ask The Headhunter Newsletter, a reader asks what percentage of job-hunting time should be devoted to working with headhunters: I’ve heard that headhunters fill less than 10% of open jobs, so one should spend no more than 10% of one’s job hunting time working with headhunters. Do you agree? Also, could [...]

In the May 23, 2011 Ask The Headhunter Newsletter, a reader asks how “starting a business” can be the path from long-term unemployment to a new job. Do you have any advice for the long-term unemployed? Since I’m not getting anywhere by job hunting, I’m considering starting a business, if only to keep myself busy! Then [...]

In the May 17, 2011 Ask The Headhunter Newsletter, a reader asks whether what we post on the Net can hurt us. Now that I’m job hunting, I’m taking stock of things I’ve posted around the Net. I wonder if my online writing could hurt my chances of getting hired. I suppose a diligent background [...]

“The ladders is a scam, plain and simple. A class action lawsuit sounds like a good idea.” – TheLadders (former) subscriber Robin Lynn “I’d love to charge them for the amount of my time they wasted.” – Employer Claire Peat, not a customer TheLadders continues to discredit itself while suffering renewed attacks from its own paying [...]

Dying to become relevant again, Monster.com sent out a promotional e-mail today, with a big, fat, blue title at the top: There’s more to recruiting than finding the right candidates. Well, no, there’s not. Finding the right candidates is 100% of what recruiting is and must be, or you wind up having to use 50 stupid [...]

In the May 3, 2011 Ask The Headhunter Newsletter, a reader asks how to get noticed among all the competition when competing for a C-level job, especially when he doesn’t have 100% of the “requirements” on his resume. I believe I have a good, detailed resume. I am trying to make the jump from SVP/Division [...]

In the March 14, 2011 Ask The Headhunter Newsletter, a reader says rejection isn’t so bad, if you learn something about your career objectives in the process. I think rejection can lead to a whole lot more. I found work that I love and that I’m good at, at a small, award-winning company. My meetings with the [...]

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 [...]

Next week I’m doing a presentation to a group of alumni from Cornell University’s Johnson School of Business, about how to work with headhunters. These are seasoned executives who have been running companies for 7-15 years, and who turn to their alma mater’s Career Management Center for an added edge. What they want to know [...]