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How To Ask For A Promotion or Raise

At some point in your career, you likely have felt you earned a promotion or raise. Sometimes these feelings may have been what motivated you to leave for a different company. Here are some tips to help get you a a promotion or raise. 1. Be realisticBefore an employee can – or should – ask…

What To Do When A Recruiter Reaches Out

Congrats! A recruiter reached out to you! Clearly, your resume, reputation, or LinkedIn profile spoke to them. Whether you are searching for a job or not, it’s nice to know your skills were recognized. Now you’ve read the message (or listened to the voicemail) from the recruiter, you have 4 important steps to take. Consider…

Timing is Everything: What to Consider When Planning Career Changes or Growth

Popular advice when it comes to growing your career is: timing is everything. You’ve heard it before, but how do you own your timing and use it to progress along your chosen career path? How do you take steps to respond when opportunities present themselves, but also create the conditions for those opportunities in the first place?…

How To Respectfully Resign (Quit Your Job Nicely)

It can be difficult when you’re ready to move on to your next company or career path to remember you need to respectfully resign. You don’t want to burn any bridges, so you want to make sure you quit your job as nicely as you can. You never know when you might need a reference…

Are Resume Gaps Hurting You?

I’m sure you’ve heard the age-old advice: “Whatever you do, secure a job offer before you leave this one, or else you’ll have a hard time explaining a career gap.” Sounds familiar? While it is important to be careful not to have a gap as you move from one career adventure to another, it’s important…

Best Career Advice You’ve Been Given

Think back to when you were just starting out as a professional or even more recently. What was the best career advice you’ve been given? I was fortunate enough to attend a 4-year-college committed to professional education. The professors weren’t just concerned about making sure we knew the material, they wanted to ensure we were…

Resume Accuracy Matters

Your resume and cover letter need to be reflections of your best self. You want to put your best foot forward and proudly display your accomplishments. However, there is a definite line between projecting excellence and deceit. I recently had an unusual resume problem. In 16 years of recruiting, I’ve never stumbled across it. A…

Knowing Your Why

People speak a lot about “knowing your why” when it comes to anything difficult. Ask any gym trainer, nutritionist, behavioral medication expert and they will all ask you the same thing “what’s motivating you to achieve your goals?” If your reason isn’t very strong, your motivation will end and you will fail. At any task.…

Why Timely Feedback Is Important

I recently wrote about the importance of providing timely feedback to the recruiter if you are the candidate. Today I wanted to explain why it’s equally important for us to get that feedback for our client, the company, also known as your potential new employer. Somewhat quickly after the interview is over, our client (the…

How To Use LinkedIn for Business

As recruiters, we live on LinkedIn for our business. We’ve also seen a lot of people not adhering to some pretty general best practice guidelines. Items you should never put on LinkedIn: politics (or any political issue) and religion. Some of you may be reading this and thinking “who would do that?” Well, the answer…