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By Bob McIntosh, CPRW, MBTI This post garners the most views of any of my others. I’ve included a link to Jeff Altman’s video on personal business cards. Watch it. A funny story I tell my workshop attendees is about how I ordered 250 personal business cards on www.vistaprint.com, only to find when I opened them...
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Technology is changing for job hunters and you need to remain current with it in order to make sure you can accomplish everything you want in your job search. Mark Anthony Dyson is a career coach and host of “Voice of Job Seekers” podcast. We discuss 8 tools that can help you with your search....
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Having been a recruiter for more than forty years, I started in the industry at a time when running ads meant in a newspaper, cold calling candidates from company telephone directories was common and lying to them was far more common than it is today (thank goodness). We were trained to present ourselves as updating telephone...
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I ran the New York Marathon on a sunny day in November with the temperature at 78 degrees. It was my first marathon and, I suspect, it may be my last one. My friend, Frank Boros, with whom I trained for more than a year, and I lined up toward the back of the pack...
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I started in the search business in 1972 and it didn’t take long for me to notice a few simple yet understandable behaviors among employers.   They include: The longer someone is looking for work, the fewer choices they have. Companies start to look at your resume and believe that others have interviewed you and...
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  I pose a provocative question that will help you far beyond what you realize. —————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a career coach and recruiter for what seems like one hundred years. Follow him at The Big Game Hunter, Inc. on LinkedIn for more articles, videos and podcasts than what are...
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Starting a smart job search doesn’t mean putting your resume on to Monster or one of the other job sites and waiting for the phone to ring with job offers. Starting a job search the smart way requires organization and planning or else you will miss some of the best opportunities because you’re unprepared. For...
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I started in the search business in 1972 and it didn’t take long for me to notice a few simple yet understandable behaviors among employers. They include: The longer someone is looking for work, the fewer choices they have. Companies start to look at your resume and believe that others have interviewed you and found...
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  In this periscope video I talk about the value of doing an end run around the applicant tracking system to get results. In the video, I mention a website where ou can search all public LinkedIn profiles. It is www.LI-USA.info Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a coach and recruiter for what...
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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter turns his attention to helping those of you who will be looking for summer jobs. ——————————————————————————————————— Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a coach and recruiter for what seems like one hundred years. Follow him at The Big Game Hunter, Inc. on LinkedIn for more articles, videos...
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