This is a crucial one. A bad decision can have a highly negative impact on your resume and career evolution.
After all, you seek more responsibility, more money and a better title, right?
Here are the 6 questions I recommend to minimize this risk of a false move. And I would only accept a job offer if all points are positive:
This is a tough one. HR Directors and (most) recruiters will tell you that age makes no difference, 50+ people who have lost their job will say the contrary. What is the truth? Are you really professionally finished as a 50+ for a corporate career?
Competencies.
It is hard argue with the notion that every job is made up of a number of defined skills. Many companies use competency frameworks to help their employees understand how to improve their performance or prepare themselves for additional responsibilities.
But what happens when these collections of competencies include hard to define “soft skills” and are used for selection rather than development? Read more
Congratulations! After having screened dozens or hundreds of resumes and having conducted numerous interviews, you have found the right candidate for your job vacancy. Weeks or months of hard work come to an end.
Make sure you get it right at this critical point of time of the hiring process: one false move can result in a refusal and if you screw it up now, you have to start at zero again (unless you have a back-up – and even then, s/he will only be second choice…).
In my experience, 5-10% of job offers made are turned down.
Making it right is a very precise technique. Here are the 9 steps on how to make a winning job offer:
Your professional qualifications were flawless, but again you didn’t get the job. As a jobseeker, you keep asking yourself the question why this is happening over and over again, but you don’t know the answer. Also many workers reach their boundaries when it goes beyond pure professional demands in every day working life.
So why do people fail in their job search or are stuck at work even though they have always been the best student and worker and are in possession of a high IQ? Read more
In 99% of any given application process, the online contact will be step 1 – may it be via email, social media or as a response to a job ad.
What are the absolute MUST criteria to make it to the first interview? Read more
Martin and his family in 1994: "We had gone to church wearing our best clothing and the church photographer was making free pictures"
“The longest mile of unemployment for me was during a grueling 3 year stretch of time in California under the Clinton administration. My consulting position as a Director of Marketing & Sales had just ended because of faulty management decisions that threw the company into bankruptcy.
Businesses were going bankrupt across America, unemployment was at an all time high, home prices were crashing, foreclosures were drastically on the rise and almost no one wanted to hire.
The year was 1992.
In the age of social networks, the online image becomes more and more important. Your reputation on the net will most likely have an impact on your future career moves and hiring managers often google you as a routine. And if they do so, you better make sure the hits are positive. Not checking your online profile regularly in social networks means therefore running high risk: The first impression is important and inappropriate pictures or remarks on the internet might impact career moves. However, the 2.0 reputation also has many positive aspects. Read on to understand how you get your online image right Read more
Often right – though it is illegal to do so in some countries. Yet many agencies put ads on the net that are completely made up and neither the job nor the company exist (at least recruiters who work on success fees and who have to build a “candidate pool”).
I read and hear again and again that candidates complain that when they met their recruiter, the job “was gone”, had “just been filled” or more bluntly “does not exist” and had the aim “to attract candidates”. Read more
If you are feeling blocked in your current job or are looking for a new position you may have thought about exploring opportunities to add some additional skills to your CV.
Whether you are considering an executive MBA, an open enrollment Executive Education program, or contemplating using a coach or mentor, you should be sure that the program you select uses all the latest learning methods and technologies available.
And, very importantly, that you will have a great time doing it! Read more
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