Bill Wednieski 248-343-6027
If you’ve known me for a while, you’ve likely heard me use this phrase in both professional and personal situations. It’s one of my favorites. During every March Madness basketball tournament, there are upsets. This year during the men’s tournament, the #16 team Fairleigh Dickinson beat the #1 team Purdue University. This was just the […]
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There are some things you just wish you knew sooner. About fifteen years into my career, a prolific commercial real estate broke, who had engaged me for a project, broke down the Four Stages of Competence. To this day, I still remember it. Though it helped that he was a great storyteller to make me […]
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Generally, people fall into one of two camps. One is having a victim mentality; think “it is always someone else’s fault and never mine.” These folks play the blame game. The other camp is the accountability camp. You might not like it if you contributed to an uncomfortable situation… but being accountable means you can […]
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Most candidates would rather stick their heads in a vise than negotiate compensation. Salary negotiations are not generally pleasant for either the job candidate or employer. Every single situation is different – please keep reading below for how I assess each one: Do you want the job and have they offered it to you? Way […]
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I frequently write about cannabis and the work our firm The Headhunters, LLC does in this space. I love this industry and what’s not to love? Legitimate cannabis jobs are on fire with how fast they are growing, and no other industry has so many unique characters. Still, the industry needs some rails before bad […]
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I’ve had the very recent firsthand experience of working with candidates at polar opposite ends of the vaccination spectrum. First, I was working with a very bright young lady that told me about a “deal breaker” on mask or vaccine mandates. I asked her to clarify, and she told me she was looking for a […]
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Most people do not have perfect career paths or resumes- after all, we’re all human. Many people change careers all together, have faced layoff situations, been poorly fit into an organization, or changed companies in order to push forward in their career. In eight years of recruiting, I have found the two biggest reasons a […]
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We are all busy In 2018, Ladders, Inc. published a study that recruiters spend an average of 7.4 seconds reviewing a resume. I’m confident that my team and I do better than that, but honestly, hopeless resumes don’t get much more than 15 seconds with some of those extra seconds just out of personal empathy. […]
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What’s the process to getting counteroffers, anyway? Let me tell you… it’s a time consuming and stressful road. Before you even get to counteroffers, you have to get an offer from another company. That means you’ve gone through the effort of updating an attractive resume, applying to countless jobs, and taking time away from work […]
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Red Flags for the Candidate Great news: they want to interview you! The job market ebbs and flows from a candidate’s market to an employer’s market, and sometimes it is a huge accomplishment just to be asked to interview. Congratulations on getting this far if you have been asked to interview. Now, consider taking a […]
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