When I first started publishing Ask The Headhunter online in 1995, the most popular and frustrating question I’d get from readers was, How can I write a really great resume that will get me an interview? My answer was simple: Throw your resume in the garbage. Don’t use a resume. A resume is a crutch. A [...]

Every January, pundits publish their predictions for the new year. I don’t make predictions because I prefer not to be judged when I’m wrong ;-) But it’s not hard to surmise that if the economy improves this year, the employment shoe will be on the other foot. The personnel jockey who has routinely been spitting rude [...]

Discussion: December 22, 2009 Ask The Headhunter Newsletter In today’s newsletter: Some readers have sad tales to tell of job hunting gone bad. Others have found success after trials and tribulations. [Update: The newsletter is not normally archived online, but I've put today's edition up to make it easier to share and to encourage more [...]

I don’t use this blog to crow about what I do, but something interesting has dawned on me and, well, I wanna crow about it. Am I the only headhunter on Google? Before you roll your eyes and chuckle at that… Google “headhunter”. The top 10 results include Ask The Headhunter (that’s me)… and no other headhunter. [...]

I don’t write about many products or services because it’s rare that I find one worth writing about. Let’s face it, the Net is rife with hyped-up garbag-io. But sometimes something comes along that’s worth talking about. Even then, I can’t get interested in a product until I know who is behind it. I met Jason Alba [...]

Reader Edward said something provocative on Attitude in a “crappy job market”: It’s actually fairly easy to check for integrity, if you first know what it is. Well, what is it? I think I’ve got the start of a useful definition and I’ve used it pretty successfully, though I think it needs to be fleshed [...]

I don’t believe in the idea of a job market (that’s another discussion), but the very idea that we deal with a “market” when we search for a job leads some to get depressed and dispirited. If it really is a market, then it can be crappy and if it’s crappy we have no control [...]

Reader Mike Urbonas did a nice post about my 1997 book (not to be confused with the new book, How to Work with Headhunters) … Thanks, Mike! … But that’s not what’s so cool about his post. Mike brings up an old story published by Mr. Angry (Melbourne, Australia) that’s very instructive and a good [...]

You could just say NO when HR asks you to disclose your salary history. Then there’s this approach.

Online job boards rent, sell, trade, loan, and otherwise fully exploit resumes people submit to them. This was pretty well documented even several years ago. Today, unscrupulous “recruiters” use the job boards as their personal data bases, uploading people’s resumes without their knowledge, and downloading and submitting to their “clients” the resumes of other unsuspecting rubes. [...]