By: Bill Wednieski 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 […]
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By: Bill Wednieski 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 […]
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By: Bill Wednieski If we’ve worked together or you’ve known me a while then you’ve probably heard me say, “If you order a pizza on Tuesday and it arrives on Friday, do you still want it?” Headhunting is a strange and unique business, especially in today’s market with historic employment levels. With unemployment at just […]
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By Ryan Clark 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 […]
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By: Bill Wednieski 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 […]
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By Jennifer Barnett 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 […]
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By: Bill Wednieski 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, […]
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