Sometimes it’s worth Taking a Salary Cut to Change Careers. At least, this reader thinks it is… and wants to know how to do it. How do I let a potential employer know that I will take a lower-level job than my experience would otherwise indicate in order to learn a new subject area in [...]

In the September 8, 2009 Ask The Headhunter Newsletter we’re discussing follow-up phone calls to managers. You know — that call you’re supposed to make after you submit a resume and application form. In the newsletter, a reader worries that such calls can turn the job hunter into a pest. What manager wants to be [...]

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 [...]