A guest blog post from Deborah Weiner I don’t believe for one minute that employers, recruiters and hiring managers are really trying to trip you up. However, I do believe that they are trying to size you up. They want to see how you handle yourself under pressure. They want to determine how fast you think on your feet. They want to see if you will sink or swim. Ok, a few mean ones are trying to screen you out of the process, but we can turn the tables on all of them by being prepared with the best responses to a few of their commonly asked questions. So grab a pen or keyboard and let’s practice. Come on, give it a try. We have listed some suggested answers below, so no peeking! Here are six pretty common questions to … [Read more...]
Two-Week Notice – Nicety or Necessity
by Mac Byrd Once you have decided to leave a company, should you give an employer a two-week notice at the time of your resignation? Five years ago, this question would not even be asked, but today is a different world. Things have changed: acceptable business practices, policies and the business climate have changed in our new post-recession, mid-recovery economy. In reality, unless you are a unionized employee, there are no contractual obligations from the company to the individual defining separation processes and procedures. In most lay-off situations, the employee is brought in at their normal start-work-time and escorted off the property 10 minutes later with their whole income-producing activity vaporized into a few words, a … [Read more...]
Top 5 Ways To Get A Job In A New Location
A blog by Phil Rosenberg, re-Careered.blogspot.com blog, July 16, 2010 I came across this excellent post on reCareered.blogspot.com. As all businesses are becoming more global, we should consider opportunities in other areas, regions, states and countries. Phil Rosenberg has some terrific ideas to accelerate a job search in a new location. In the past, it wasn’t so difficult to find a job prior to moving to a new city. In today’s hyper competitive job market, where there are 6 times more applicants than advertised jobs, employers can afford to be very picky. Unless they have been in the job market for a while, candidates are still used to past experiences, where employers were starved for qualified candidates. In normalized … [Read more...]
Success and a Future of Contingent Employment
An easy way to think of contingent employment is to think of it as contract labor for a specific task – a free agent employee arrangement. Not just for unskilled blue-collar labor, but for skilled professional white-collar labor like accountants, marketers, IT professionals, code writers, CEO’s and all professions. In the new, post recession America of 2010, thanks to Tina Brown of the Daily Beast, this is also called gigonomics. Contingent labor has been in use since tasks were first divided amongst early tribesmen. There were stonecutters (defense contractors), herdsmen (ranchers), hunters (butchers), tanners (clothing and shoe manufacturers), farmers (okay, they are still called farmers), and medicine men (healthcare … [Read more...]
