In conversations with executive job seekers, we discuss how today's job search works, including targeting, personal branding, LinkedIn, online presence, and how recruiters find candidates. Sourcing vs. Recruiting Candidates Candidate sourcing is the recruiter's first step. They look in …
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How Many LinkedIn Connections Are Good For Executive Job Search?
One of the LinkedIn things job-hunting executives most frequently want to know is how many LinkedIn connections they should have. They ask: Does it matter how many people I’m connected to on LinkedIn, and who should I connect with – everyone who asks? Opinions differ on whether it’s more …
Crucial Executive Job Interview FAQs
Executive job interviews can be stressful for many job seekers. The best way to alleviate that stress is by being well prepared, and as ready as possible for whatever they throw at you. This post is part of a series of posts that include the FAQs I most often get from my clients. Here are the …
5 Pivotal Executive Job Search FAQs
Over the years, I’ve kept track of the questions that job seekers ask me and I've written blog posts addressing the ones that come up all the time. Previously, I wrote posts covering executive job search FAQs in these areas: You'll see links to those posts at the end of this article. 5 FAQs …
22 Things NOT To Put in Your Executive Resume
If you're like many executive job seekers, you’ve either never needed a resume to land a job, or you haven't updated your resume in several years. Consequently, you probably don't know how today’s power executive resume needs to look and read. Maybe you’ve tried writing or updating your resume …
Game-changing Executive Resume FAQs
Putting together an executive resume is a daunting task. Even career professionals can find them challenging to write. Resumes are just one aspect of executive job search my clients have questions about. Over the years, I've kept track of some of their questions about the challenges they …
How to Find Executive Recruiters Specializing in Your Niche
One of the things executive job seekers often ask me is where and how to find executive recruiters. I caution them not to rely entirely on recruiters to get them into a job. Too many executive job seekers think all they have to do is connect with several recruiters, sit back, and let them do the …
Nail Your Virtual Job Interviews – Things You Need To Know and Do Well
The past few years so many things in our work and personal lives have been shaken up and tested. For instance, virtual job interviews and remote work have become new normals. For many of us, our work and personal lives now intersect in ways we wouldn’t have imagined before the pandemic. With …
Guide to Executive Job Interviews: The How-To’s, Why’s and Best Practices
Whether you're in interviews now, or you've been reading about them or experienced the process in the past, you know how challenging it can be to ace job interviews. There's so much involved with nailing interviews – from preparing for them, to performing well in them, to following up, to landing …
How To Get Executive Recruiters’ Attention With The Right Email Messages
Executive recruiters are important sources of executive jobs. But don't overlook the most important job search strategy: Networking your way into the goldmine of hidden jobs at the companies or organizations you're targeting. Of course, you'll need to reach out to recruiters and apply for …