Not everyone is comfortable with networking. You may not like the word, the thought, the activity, or the entire concept. But the facts continue to show that networking works. More jobs are found by personal connections, referrals, asking the right...
Executive Job Search Top Mistake #3 of 6 — Crappy Preparation Executives, you have so many skills and experiences, but your preparation for networking, applying and interviewing are, well, pathetic. You can stand out just by doing better homework than...
If you’ve never felt any of the following during your job search, you are not human: frustrated, depressed, angry, confused, guilty, sad, victimized, stupid, humiliated, embarrassed, lacking confidence. In my three decades of hiring, mentoring and assisting job seekers, I...
Executives, while you may be doing well in the departments of submitting resumes, networking, and interviewing, your skills in one of the most important aspects of the job search: “Follow Up” are abominable. Yes, most often completely missing or weak,...
David, an unemployed senior banker, is a high-performance athlete. He’s a very competitive marathon runner and, during our job search coaching sessions, he showed me how he documented a rigorous pre-marathon training regimen. He tracked each workout, recorded what he...
Executives, you have so many skills and experiences, you don’t need the fancy ego during your job search. Quite the opposite. You need humility, kindness, flexibility and an unrelenting focus on the customer. Today the hiring manager is the customer....
From a veteran hiring manager’s perspective, I’ve found that the weakest part of most job search processes is the deplorable state of follow-up. You can go from the perfect candidate to the bottom of the list before you even know...
15 of the Top 30 Interview Bloopers (Part 1 of 2) Good news, bad news. Bad news: The majority of job seekers are blowing it in their job interviews. And this is within your own company or looking outside in...
ANNOUNCEMENT: Cut the Crap, Get a Job! A New Job Search Process for a New Era — just-released –is a game-changing job search book that will help everyone from college graduates to senior executives make their next career moves in...
What to do After a Networking Event I hope many of you are going to face-to-face network events as part of your job search. I’m Dana Manciagli, author of Cut the Crap, Get a Job!… Drive the Follow Up Process...
From a veteran hiring manager’s perspective, I’ve found that the weakest part of most job search processes is the deplorable state of follow-up. You can go from the perfect candidate to the bottom of the list before you even know...
Hopefully, you have already learned about my “Law of Threes” as a major recommendation to help you through your job search. If not: In all of your written and verbal communications around your job search, and with every encounter, remember...
True confession: As a job search and career expert, I was skeptical about all of these social media tools as recently as four years ago. I separated professional networking from social networking and felt that the social sites were a...
Rules for Playing the Job Search “Odds Game” My father taught me “if you cheat, you are cheating yourself.” So don’t cheat on how you count the 10 active opportunities. Each of the active job possibilities must meet one of...
Pamela Gordon sent her résumé to 9 different job postings and got no results. Some of the jobs were for administrative assistant, one was as a marketing coordinator, and another was for a project manager. In a few of the...
Juggling Multiple Job Opportunities During Your Search Excuse #1: “I can’t juggle more than three at a time.” Really? Are you kidding? You need to be able to juggle more than three projects at work, you have the capacity to...
Fire, Aim, Ready. I have been a hiring manager for more than 30 years and I have received way more applications from unqualified candidates than I have for qualified candidates. This happens regularly with internal candidates (within a company) as...
Good for you! You got that job interview! But, watch it, your body can lose the job for you within the first few minutes. Don’t fight it. Accept it. You’re being watched as much as you are being heard in...