Not content to promise more than he can deliver, and still happy to charge money for nothing (that you can’t get elsewhere for free), TheLadders’ CEO Marc Cenedella conducts an inspection of his members with his latest missive: “So my colleagues here at TheLadders and I want to make your job search strategy as attractive [...]
For a while it seemed TheLadders had gotten down off its lame horse, and stopped claiming it offers “ONLY $100k+ jobs.” (If you believe TheLadders really has only $100k+ jobs in its little database, have a look at what its members disclose about their experiences.) Indeed, the “ONLY” has been missing on its home page [...]
In the January 11, 2011 Ask The Headhunter Newsletter, two readers raise related questions about headhunters and job hunters. (My short version of their questions is, Are these people insane?) But take a look for yourself: Reader #1 asks: I found the article, How to Judge Headhunters, to be one of the best I’ve seen a some [...]
In the November 16, 2010 Ask The Headhunter Newsletter, a reader asks why she’s being chased by wild dogs after she posted her resume online: I’ve suddenly been contacted by four different “recruiters” from different recruiting companies. On Thursday, one recruiter cold called me and said he saw my resume on Monster, asked me a few background [...]
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 [...]
A reader sent this along today: In an interview the other day, I asked about performance measurement and review. The HR rep said salary (increases) is not for rewarding good performance. Is this standard HR thinking? How and why? Not everyone in HR deserves to get tarred with this story. But HR just amazes me. A [...]
This week three men shared the 2010 Nobel Prize in Economic Science. Here’s the problem they’ve been working on for decades: The researchers spent decades trying to understand why it takes so long for people to find jobs, even in good economic times, and why so many people can be unemployed even when many jobs [...]
Has Penelope Trunk finally suffered a psychotic break on the pages of BNET? “You don’t need time to job-hunt.” Or did her editor? “Job-hunting does not take all day… It’s too hard. So a bad job does not interfere with a good job hunt.” Why Hunting for a Great Job Will Hurt Your Career is [...]
A major university asked me to submit a proposal. The school is interested in hiring “a career placement professional” to “bring jobs to the table” for its newly-minted Executive MBAs (EMBAs). The school “has career placement but it does not meet the needs of the EMBA program.” The school also has “career coaches,” but it [...]
“The people running America’s colleges and universities have long thought they were exempt from the laws of supply and demand and unaffected by the business cycle. Turns out that’s wrong.” Some might suggest this quote from National Review Online is politically motivated. The real problem is, Bill Barone’s article, The Higher Education Bubble, is chock full [...]
