No one seems to be exempt from the email dilemma. Whether you’re job hunting and emailing recruiters and other hiring professionals, or sending business emails, people often don’t get back to you. You’re faced with deciding whether or not to send an email follow-up, or two or three. It’s an …
Executive Job Search
How Do I Rebuild My Network for Executive Job Search?
Executive job seekers often ask me how they can rebuild their job search network, now that they're back in a job hunt. We discuss the fact that, by far, networking is the best way to land a job and that job boards yield dismal results. They’re concerned that they neglected their network once …
Beware of Scam Resume Writing Services
Did you land on this post because you searched “resume writing services”? Then your mission is to find the best resume writer for your needs. But you may need help sorting through all the options. Worried about which services are legit and which may be fly-by-night scams providing less than …
Secrets Executive Recruiters Can’t Tell You and Tips for Working with Them
I always advise executive job seekers NOT to rely entirely on executive recruiters to get them into a job. If you reach out to several recruiters and then sit back and wait for them to connect you with a job, you may be waiting a long time. Most of your job-hunting efforts should revolve …
Is Your Online Presence Strong Enough to Compete in Executive Job Search?
Some executive job seekers just don’t get how much executive job search has changed over the past several years, and how important online presence is now. A spot-on, value-driven executive resume alone probably won’t land you the job you want. Like it or not, the digital age has impacted job …
Executive Job Search Advice from the Experts
I always keep my eyes and ears open to the job search advice given by my colleagues in the careers industry. Job seekers should do the same. Because I've been in this industry for more than 25 years, I've had the opportunity to work with and learn from many smart people. Below you'll find the …
Twitter Executive Branding Strategy: The Beauty of a Retweet
Does your executive job search brand communications plan include Twitter? If so, do you take advantage of the beauty of a retweet? If you’re not on Twitter because you don’t think you’ll have time to come up with enough quality tweets, reconsider. I’m about to explain how you …
Smart Personal Branding: Posting LinkedIn Updates vs Updating Your LinkedIn Profile
If you've been paying attention, you’ve probably seen lots of articles about LinkedIn updates, and how you can use them to build your personal brand. Did you overlook those articles, thinking they're about updating the information (or content) in your LinkedIn profile? Maybe you recently …
Executive Job Search Networking Lessons from Experts
You may not fully grasp the fact that networking is the most successful executive job search method. Or, you may completely get it . . . but you’re either not good at networking – for executive job search or anything else – or you dread the thought of having to do it. No matter, if you want to …
Post-COVID-19 Job Search: What’s Changing
Job search has always been complicated and often daunting. Job search during (and post) pandemic is even more so. Everyone involved is scrambling to adjust to the new challenges that have come with the pandemic. I've pulled together resources and advice from various experts in different …