Job Seeker Strategies Articles

In many situations, a candidate’s first direct contact with an organization will be with a company recruiter. This person’s job is to accumulate interested job candidates for the open position(s) of the company. A recruiter can do this by placing posting ads in places...

Everybody has opinions. Especially when it involves giving advice to people seeking employment. You can’t open up a paper or surf a Website without coming across multiple “experts” all professing that they hold the secret to finding employment. I will digress for a...

In most situations, persistence is considered a good thing and ultimately results in something positive occurring. If you keep doing something over and over again, eventually you should get better at what you are doing and may actually master the activity....

There are laws that serve to protect job applicants during the recruiting and hiring process for when something does not go as it should. Although most New York State companies mean well, it is important for a job seeker to have a general understanding of applicable...

It may seem odd, but an open position for an employer and a job search for an applicant often have a curious similarity in regards to mindset.  In both of these situations, there seems to be, at times, an obsession over activity rather than quality or actual results....

There is so much debate regarding social media and its proper place in society. It seems like, at times, too much effort is being spent writing and reading posts rather than engaging in activity that is (perhaps) more productive or enriching. One area, however, where...

What is that old line that people will say? Something about “everything in moderation”. This statement is usually made in terms of some type of consumption such as alcohol or fatty foods. You can also make it work, however, for your job search by the use of...

The holiday season can be a whirlwind period of activity involving family, shipping, cooking/baking, etc. If you have a job, you also have to find the ability to focus on your work, which can especially be difficult if you are in a position or industry that gets...

It is that time of year again; a period that many job seekers dread. It is the feared “Bermuda Triangle” of job searching…the holiday season. This time of year does not have to be so horrible. In fact because so many job seekers mistakenly “drop out” out of the...

Sometimes the old adage of “don’t take no for an answer” can pay off, especially when it comes to your job search. For many job seekers, they may think erroneously that you only receive one attempt to get hired by a company. They believe that once you have been...