You Need to Teach Your Job Seekers These Professional Habits
Posted on October 10, 2016
In a recruiter’s pool of candidates, applicants who have never mastered professional habits like clear communication or an embrace of curiosity will stick out like a sore thumb. For your job seekers to stand out from the competition, ensure that they’re comfortable with the practices …
What Happened to the Follow-Up? Help Job Seekers Land Their Big Opportunity
Posted on September 19, 2016
This post was updated in September 2022 Too many candidates are failing to make a follow-up effort with employers after making contact with them. CareerBuilder found that 37% of job seekers don’t follow up with an employer after they have applied, and 57% of job seekers don’t send tha …
How to Handle the High Expectations of College Grads
Posted on August 15, 2016
(This post was updated on 6/22/2020) College graduates are quickly learning the high expectations for their first job out of college aren’t exactly going to be met the way they pictured. There are many perks they hope to find at their first job that end up missing. It’s important for …
You Need to Know These Awesome Email Etiquette Tips Now
Posted on May 16, 2016
pixabay When people hear the term ‘etiquette,’ they tend to think of stuffy, formal dinner parties that involve too many forks, white linen napkins, and uncomfortable suits and gowns. This discomfort and stress people associate with it is unnecessary. Etiquette is important to have in …
This Is How You Guide Candidates to Success For All Interviews
Posted on April 18, 2016
pixabay Hiring practices have changed dramatically over recent years, with several new trends completely redesigning the recruiting landscape. A major part of the hiring process is the interview stage, which has also seen an influx of different types and formats. No two interview proc …
How to Get Millennials in the Workforce Hired
Posted on March 21, 2016
pixabay The job market for millennials is more competitive than ever before. Over the last decade, the unemployment rate has been on a steady decline and is at an all time low of 4.9 percent according to Bureau of Labor Statistics. However, millennials are still having the hardest tim …
How to Help Job Seekers Avoid Bad Advice When Changing Careers
Posted on February 15, 2016
(This post was updated on 6/24/2020) With businesses shut down due to COVID-19, about 20.5 million people were on state unemployment rolls in early June 2020, according to the New York Times. It was the 13th straight week that filings topped one million. This extended period of high u …
4 Job Search Tips You Need to Stop Telling Job Seekers
Posted on January 18, 2016
As the experts job seekers turn to during the job search, we all have go-to pieces of advice we dish out when they need support. But with so many changes happening in the way people find jobs, are some of our traditional job search tips becoming outdated? Just as we no longer encourag …
How To Manage Expectations Of The New Optimistic Job Seeker
Posted on August 10, 2015
Job seekers are more optimistic now than ever. Kaspars Grinvalds For the first time since 2009, employee job market confidence has reached beyond half of the population surveyed, according to Glassdoor’s new study. Yet, the reality is, fewer than half of 2014 graduates have profession …
4 Hiring Trends Every Job Seeker Needs to Know
Posted on March 2, 2015
Mark Carrel;BigStock As a career counselor, it’s your job to keep your job seekers up to date on the hiring trends they need to know to land a job. To take advantage of the current job market, inform job seekers about these four important hiring trends: