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Author: Soozy Miller
AI in the recruitment process
AI is rapidly gaining popularity. When it became available, people immediately started using AI to write general resumes, and recruiters started using AI to gather lists of global contacts. AI is being used on both sides of the hiring desk. The job search is becoming an AI vs. AI battle involving ridiculously high numbers. The…
The long and winding job search
A Chief Marketing Officer that I’m working with just heard about a job opening six months after being turned down by the company. The other candidate apparently didn’t work out. At my last recruiter gig, after several interviews, the company CEO was still contemplating a marketing manager candidate about 9 weeks after the hiring manager…
What is Branding Cohesion?
One of my colleagues posted the following: Ensure branding cohesion: — Align your resume and LinkedIn messaging. — Create a unified narrative of your career story. — Make life easier for recruiters by staying in sync. Aren’t they all the same thing? Branding consistency and cohesion. But that’s not even the part that gives me…
Job search problems that can be solved
Your job search challenges really come down to 4 problems: 1. Tough job market 2. Resume looks like everyone else’s 3. Need to reach recruiters 4. No idea how to begin the job search Let’s address each of them. 1. The job market is tough. Due to a variety of factors too lengthy to get…
Lousy interviews
I was helping a Chief Operating Officer who is an expert at process optimization. He specializes in identifying the problems and gaps, and fixing them. The companies are much better off after hiring him. During one of our calls, he told me that he had had a screening phone call a few days before with…
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The answer is in your skills
Did you just receive another auto-generated generic rejection email for a job that you are absolutely certain you were right for? Now you’re feeling hopeless and asking, WHAT DO THEY WANT FROM ME??? Instead of writing a hate letter to the recruiter, or screaming at the sky, or laying your weary head on your desk…
Are You More Stressed?
A recent article in Forbes.com highlighted a new Future Forum survey, which found that overall job satisfaction for executives is down 15% and work-related stress and anxiety have jumped 40%. Work related stress Work-related stress has jumped 40%! That’s a lot of stress. This could be for any number of factors. –The Great Resignation –Job description change…
