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Thursday’s Thought: I Need A Job! Where Do I Begin?

Posted by Kevin Crews - The Career Strategist on January 27, 2011 in Job Tip |

The most common answer to that question for a typical job seeker is “The Job Boards”. It worked in the past, so let’s try it again. Wrong answer. In confusing times, where everyone and anyone is handing out inaccurate advice, and the job seekers heads are spinning with confusion, some seem to turn to those […]

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Tuesday’s Tip: Are You Ready for Those Interview Questions?

Posted by Kevin Crews - The Career Strategist on January 25, 2011 in Job Tip |

We all wish we had a magical cheat-sheet with all of the questions (and the excepted answers) to all of those weird and illogical questions that those ill-prepared interviewers are bound to ask us in an interview. But unless I haven’t been copied on the E-mail yet, that sheet probably doesn’t exist. However, you can […]

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Thursday’s Thought: Speed Interviewing

Posted by Kevin Crews - The Career Strategist on January 20, 2011 in Job Tip |

Last night after our networking event, someone came up to me and mentioned a clever idea. I wanted to run this by all my readers and see what kind a response/participation this would ignite. He thought that my networking group could further be enhanced by offering a Speed Interviewing Event. This would be similar to […]

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Tuesday’s Tip: Sending a Thank You Letter

Posted by Kevin Crews - The Career Strategist on January 18, 2011 in Job Tip |

I am surprised by how few job seekers actually send a Thank You Letter to those that were involved in the Hiring Process. It seems like everyone you ask “claims” to send them, but in actuality, the Hiring Managers I talk to receive them less than 50% of the time. So if you are one […]

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Thursday’s Thought: Any Guest Bloggers Out There?

Posted by Kevin Crews - The Career Strategist on January 13, 2011 in Job Tip |

Do have anything that you would like to get off your mind? Do you have some technique that you have used in your job search that would be beneficial to share with fellow job seekers? Do you have any advice for recruiters, hiring managers, HR departments, corporations, or job seekers? I am looking for guest […]

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Tuesday’s Tip: E-mail Trick

Posted by Kevin Crews - The Career Strategist on January 11, 2011 in Job Tip |

Do you post your resume on various job boards? Do you receive E-mails from recruiters and hiring managers and ever wonder where they saw my resume? If so, below is a trick to take the mystery out of it. It will provide you the information you need to understand and manage the job boards that […]

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Thursday’s Thought: Got An Interview? Turn It Into A Sales Presentation

Posted by Kevin Crews - The Career Strategist on January 6, 2011 in Job Tip |

At one of my former company’s, when we brought candidates in for an interview, we took a different approach to determining if they were a superstar or super-dud. And since the act of traditional interviewing has only a 50% correlation in determining how well someone will do on the job, this method proved much more […]

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Tuesday’s Tip: Don’t Be Afraid to Negotiate

Posted by Kevin Crews - The Career Strategist on January 4, 2011 in Job Tip |

Happy New Year to all of you! I wish you the best this year! But it ain’t going to be easy, so get ready to work hard at your job search. That hard work will soon lead to an offer, and I want you to negotiate for a better salary than the first one put […]