There is never a reason to lie about your qualifications for a position. Regardless of whether you lie in your resume, at the interview, in background search information provided, or once you are working at the new organization, in the end you could lose the job. You will always be found out, ultimately, and all […]
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Common Question Asked by Jobseekers: Do you see any red flags that would prevent me from being the perfect candidate for this position? I advise clients and seminar/workshop participants in interview coaching NOT to ask the above question. Why you might ask? Because after having what is most likely a great interview, the last thing
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I saw an article today discussing how long you should take to consider a job offer, and wanted to put forth a few thoughts. First, never be pressured on the spot at an interview to take a job, that is a huge warning sign that something is wrong in the organization. If they can’t wait for a
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Well, this should NEVER be in a job ad: “Must adapt and deal comfortably with ambiguity.” However, I have been seeing it quite a bit in recent years. Particularly since COVID. That isn’t an excuse to put such a statement in a job ad. Certainly, this occurs in a workplace occasionally, but ambiguity is defined
Resume Writing Tip: Be careful utilizing images and graphics on your resume. While they may make your resume look great, they can impact its scan-ability in the Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS). From hiding information that the scanning system needs to see (without you knowing it), to making the file so large the system cannot take
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In keeping with the Halloween season, let’s discuss the why’s behind so much ghosting, and a couple of tips to help you weather that storm. After all, when you know it is going to happen, and have some strategies to deal with it, you will be better able to move forward in your search. Some
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Our industry is celebrating its annual International Update Your Resume Month this September. However, I am here to tell you that every month should be Update Your Resume Month, because keeping track of your career successes should be a regular part of your monthly tasks. If you only do this once a year, when it
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With all the hubbub about AI in hiring, we should remember it can help in certain areas. From qualifying candidates struggling to understand ATS keywords to assessing true jobseeker skills, it can benefit. AI can posit additional keywords that apply and help a candidate to make it past the scanner! Yes, AI only works as
A colleague (Bernie Reifkind) recently posted the following on LinkedIn: ME: Respectfully, will there be a JOB OFFER forthcoming? My job candidate has been on 5 interviews over 2 months.CLIENT: We should know something by the end of next week.ME: Respectfully you are running the risk of losing this candidate, she is entertaining other offers.CLIENT:
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Expect everyone to text you? Rarely listen to real voicemail messages? Utilizing voice-to-text or text-to-voice technology to screen your calls (those are some unusual messages)? Well, you are losing out on REAL interviews that could lead to REAL jobs, from REAL companies. While I often write about challenges of the jobseeker, this one is about how
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