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8 reasons why you should hang-up when a headhunter calls
Tom Sorensen, Published on 12/03/2018
» If you think that recruiters help you to find a job, I'm sorry to be the one to tell you: executive search firms and recruitment companies find candidates for jobs -- they do not find jobs for candidates. May I say, don't shoot the messenger please (read: me).
6 crazy resume mistakes of all time
Tom Sorensen, Published on 08/01/2018
» It's a New Year, and perhaps with a new list of resolutions to accomplish and a personal goal or otherwise to improve your life. If you have a new job on your resolution's list, this article will help you get started off on the right foot.
Candidates on blind dates
Tom Sorensen, Published on 27/11/2017
» Blind dates are sometimes good, usually bad, and always weird at the beginning. So are many interviews between a candidate and a hiring company. If you have never been on one yourself, a blind date is when a friend sets you up to meet a mystery person that you don’t know.
Headhunters don't take the rap for clients' behaviour
Tom Sorensen, Published on 02/10/2017
» If you want to know how to jerk the headhunter around, how to make recruiters hate you, how to toy with them and lie to them, or how you lead them to believe one thing while meaning another, promise them something when you really have no intention of keeping your word, then the following will tell it all.
Losing a candidate to a counter offer
Tom Sorensen, Published on 24/07/2017
» You are already many months into your search for that evasive talent you need to head the new business unit, your factory, your company or whatever it is in your case. You are finally down to that one person who you believe will make the difference. Your favourite candidate has indicated an intention to join and an offer has been negotiated. Both parties have agreed and you have it on paper. The head office and your local organisation have already been informed about the new arrival. A sigh of relief and a pat on your shoulder.
Two ways to test candidate personality and intelligence before you hire
Tom Sorensen, Published on 03/07/2017
» Picture a jigsaw puzzle. Then think about the next candidate you are going to interview. This candidate is like the jigsaw puzzle you just pictured, a human being put together by many different shapes and forms of puzzle pieces.
The customer is always right? Not any more
Business, Tom Sorensen, Published on 20/03/2013
» If you prefer "client" to "customer" in the headline above, because you are selling professional advice or services, no worries. Go ahead, it's not going to change the principle. Customers and clients are not always right any more.
The top five fatal mistakes made by Job-Seekers
Business, Tom Sorensen, Published on 03/01/2013
» In my last column, "How to Make the Headhunter Hate You", on Dec 21, I looked at five of the Top 10 faux pas committed by people in the course of applying and interviewing for new jobs. To recap briefly, they were: getting people's names wrong, an overlong re{aac}sume{aac}, dressing for the disco instead of for an interview, failing to prepare, and faking your qualifications. But it gets worse: here are our final _ and potentially fatal _ five:
How to make the headhunter hate you
Business, Tom Sorensen, Published on 21/12/2012
» You have heard that executive search and recruitment firms find people for jobs, not jobs for people. If you can accept the argument that real clients are those who pay for your services or customers who pay for your products, then you will also agree that in recruitment, the real clients are the companies that are looking for people and not the job seekers.