Most Americans have a job while in college. It has been like this for a long time. Unless you are on some sort of scholarship that prevents you from holding a job or on a visa that forbids you from working outside the campus. When I was in college, I worked full-time and went to school full-time. Did my grades suffer? You bet they did. However, I also had a job during my final year that was related to my field. I was lucky in that sense. Do I list it on my resume? Yes I do. S

If you haven’t been living under a rock, you know there are many companies in the hiring spaces making claims on both sides of the equations. Most of these claims on their part are false. Let’s take a closer look at them. Candidates On the candidate side Monster, Indeed, ZipRecruiter claim to find you jobs as fast as the speed of light. I laughed when they put the ad with a Network Engineer finding a job. Yes, it is a candidate market. What that means is that there are more j

There is a pool of bad recruiters. There is a pool of fake recruiters. There is a pool of fake candidates. Many recruiters deal with fake candidates. “Candidates” who apply to jobs, but aren’t real people. Recruiters get them all the time. We get applicants or find resumes on job boards. They have all the skills we are sourcing for. Even the ones that are hard to find. Could it be? Did the recruiting gods bless us with this “perfect” candidate? We call them, ask for them on t

Let’s start with there are more than 7 sins/errors that people commit in Recruiting. But today we will talk about the 7 most common ones. Treating Recruiting as sales. Recruiting has some components of sales, but it’s not sales. You are not selling anyone anything. You are making a connection, presenting an opportunity. Treating candidates as commodities. Candidates are not commodities. You aren’t trying to “sell” someone a bottle or an object. Your candidates are one of the

Recently, I have received a lot of messages and spoken to a lot of candidates who have told me about companies that outsource their recruitment. No, not in the US to a staffing company. To another country. Where people don’t speak the language. Me being me, I asked if these individuals are actually from these organizations. I asked the candidates how much research did they do on this person. Many of them had looked these people up and yes, they were working at these organizat

Scams are on a rise. We have all heard of IRS scam, where people call pretending to be an IRS agent. Pro-tip – The IRS WILL NEVER CALL YOU This year, scammers are pretending to be managers and bosses asking for gift cards from employees urgently. Always double check with your manager if that email is from them. But these scammers have now bled over to employment. People are pretending to be employers, posting fake jobs, sending emails about jobs that don’t exist. How do you a

I hear this all the time. “I am not getting any calls.” I ask them for their resumes and see that they don’t have their phone numbers listed. Phone number on the resume you are applying with is very important. How do you expect to get calls if you don’t have your numbers listed? I hear that candidates get a lot of spam calls from MLM businesses, and fake jobs. I empathize, it happened to me when I was searching for a job. But there is a simple solution to that. Don’t pick up

When you are interviewing, and it really goes your way, you usually get that tingly feeling an offer will be given. I have yet to have a candidate that was shocked when an offer arrived…you just know. But, how do you get to the point of acing the interview, so an offer comes? Here are some tips I typically give my candidates. The Interview: The interview is the best time to ask questions about company culture, the expectations that will be made of you, and really get a feel f

Resume isn’t your audition. It’s the entry that you fill out so you can get the audition, which is your interview. But if you fill out your application entry wrong, how can you expect to make it to the audition? Here are a few mistakes you are making Picture on your resume: CV’s which are usually a lot more detailed have pictures. Unless you are a design or marketing person, don’t put your picture on your resume. This might surprise you, but you are opening yourself up to dis