Are you taking your resume seriously? Considering the average resume receives only a 7-second scan by hiring managers, if you're making blatant or even subtle mistakes on yours, you're somewhat doomed. I'm not just talking about spelling and grammatical mistakes. I'm talking about the main reasons perfectly solid resumes get rejected on an initial scan: • Your basic "relevant experience" stats on where [...]
Pay isn't the number one driver in employee satisfaction. Employees today expect a lot more out of their jobs than just a paycheck. They want to spend their time in roles that will ultimately further their professional development. For this reason, companies that offer intentional succession planning, upskilling opportunities and other learning options, such as… 👉 Coaching and mentoring 👉 Job rotation opportunities 👉 Stretch assignments [...]
Are sabbaticals just for academia these days? With all the talk about quiet quitting and burnout, it’s tempting to assume the workforce — especially the younger workforce — has just about had it. According to federal data, more than 50M people in the US quit their jobs last year. All of the disruption, pivoting and downright pandemonium of the pandemic and its fallout [...]
What's your busiest time of year at work? Many industries have annual busy times of year. For my friends in public accounting, January through mid April is their frenetic filing time. (Hope it's going well for all you CPAs! 🤜 💥 ) Retail is another sector that tends to be susceptible to seasonal fluctuations. For the majority of the retail world, the pre-Christmas [...]
You're looking at the resume of a candidate who checks all your boxes. And then some. “Tim, that candidate sounds amazing,” I hear. “But we think they are overqualified.” The answer obviously depends on the case. But there IS a case for hiring someone who, on the surface, seems overqualified for a job. While it’s easy for the hiring manager to worry that [...]
How do you feel about going to the office? Now that fewer people are keen to work in an office, Audible, for one, has decided… …not to call it the “office.” The audio entertainment company prefers the term “hubs” to describe where its global employees work. To be fair, the hubs aren’t traditional offices at all. Audible hubs are places for employees to [...]
Long gone are the days when it was important to show job stability as a major priority on your resume. It’s extremely rare today for a professional to stay in the same role or even at the same company for an entire career. Yet, there can be such a thing as being too quick to quit. “How often is too often?” You may [...]
What kind of hours are people working? Think workers in the US work more hours than others in the world? Think again. According to data aggregated in 2022 by the International Labour Organization (ILO), people in the US work fewer hours a week than those in Mexico, Chile, Colombia, and Costa Rica. The average workweek in Colombia (and also in Guatemala & Botswana) [...]
Job Seeker = Think Like a Marketer If you’re hoping to land a new job this year, it’s time to think like a marketer. When people approach me to tell me they’re ready to launch a job search, one of the first things I say is, “How’s your online presence?” If your LinkedIn profile isn’t complete, that’s a definite ding. But marketing yourself [...]
How often to people change jobs? Well - how long have you been at your current job? If more than 4.2 years, you’re statistically due for a change, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (2022 numbers). And if you’re under 35, you’re overdue. Millennials are three times more likely to have changed jobs in the last year than other generations, and while [...]