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7 Missed Opportunities That Can Cost You That D... — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 01:43:27 +0000

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By: lab seven

lab seven — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 19:31:00 +0000

Good point. But I use facebook and the such to make sure I have the right guy (or gal).

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 14:45:00 +0000

I truly believe that a hand written -whatever- has that plus value, considering this: how much does it take you to write a letter with your own hands?, moreover let’s think what does it takes to place a letter in the mail box?, on the opposite side how much effort does it takes to send a virtual thank you?, it could even be a copy-littlemodified-paste thank you, click and send. How much time does one person is investing to thank you for your time lent on the interview?

At the interview (and at the CV) is where to realize if the candidate is out-of-touch with the “modern world”.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 14:42:00 +0000

That’s a valid point, but there’s another side to SEO. Sometimes it’s about making sure that you are seen instead of somebody else. There happens to be a person with the same name (including a fairly uncommon surname), lives in the same city, and works in the same industry as me. This person has a less than stellar reputation, including a criminal record. If I found myself in a job hunt, part of my strategy would be to push him off the first page of search results.

By: lab seven

lab seven — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 13:29:00 +0000

Great! telling some psycho-freak how to hide his psycho behavior he left on the web.
Then we can hire him (or her) not knowing what a nut job they truly are.

By: Marty

Marty — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 07:58:00 +0000

Yeah books eh? What are they worth?

By: richard1941

richard1941 — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 04:26:00 +0000

Sometimes jobs are advertised that don’t exist because of a hiring freeze or because the job is reserved for an insider and the ad is a mere formality. Check back 6 months. If you see the exact same job advertised, you know they are not serious and you should not waste their time.
If you get to the hiring manager, you have passed the ultimate barrier: Human Resource goons whose two goals are to prevent anybody from getting a job and to prevent the hiring manager from getting the help he needs.
Sometimes you can “human engineer” your way around HR and get directly to the manager. But that can lead to nasty internal politics. (I was reprimanded for going around HR to hire a research analyst I needed.) Sometimes HR is constrained by other goals, such as “diversity”, and hiring a qualified applicant that does not meet those goals makes them look bad.

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 01:49:00 +0000

In a recent round of interviews, only one candidate mailed a hand-written thank-you. The impression it gave me was that she was out-of-touch with the modern world, and was perhaps getting career advice from a moldy book she found a a garage sale.

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7 Oversights That Could Cost You Your Career — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 21:09:13 +0000

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