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Preparing for the Next One | No BS Job Search Advice Radio

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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter encourages you to network and prepare yourself for the next recession now before you experience the crisis.

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Let’s have a quick and honest conversation with ourselves.  Right now, if you are like most people, you are working.  You are out there plugging along, doing your job well or trying to do your job well, and any thought about the economy and planning for your career future or long out of your mind.  If the wall, fear has disappeared from newspapers as layoffs have declined.

However, I want to point something out to you.  It’s obvious, but most people don’t think in these terms.  I do.

Here’s the thing I want to remind you of – – the next recession is on the way.  This isn’t a political statement. I don’t care about the politics of it.  The next recession is coming.  I don’t know when it is going to happen, you don’t know what is going to happen but a recession will come.

There has never been an easier time than now to build your brand, to start networking with people, to maintain connections and create an impression with people who hire, with people who recruit, that you are a leading individual.

There are many ways to do it.  If you follow my YouTube videos. You will see that there are things about keeping a resume up to date, taking steps to network, stay in touch with people who you have worked with or had a relationship with at one point or another.  A lot of stuff that will help you.

For now, my encouragement to you is don’t be an ostrich and pretend nothing is going to happen.  It may not happen for a while.  It may not happen for years, 2 years or 4 years.  It could happen in the next month.  He could happen in the next year.

You don’t want to be caught short with the network that is not in place, with a resume that is not up to date, with the LinkedIn profile that doesn’t do an adequate job of attracting people to you… There is a huge list of things, but for now just consider the things that I have mentioned to be of value.

Again, the recession is coming.  Now is the time you need to take action. Now is the time before you might be in crisis that you can prepare yourself for what is inevitable.

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Do you really think employers are trying to help you?

You already know you can’t trust recruiters—they tell you as much as they think you need to know to take the job they after representing so they collect their payday.

The skills needed to find a job are different yet complement the skills needed to do a job.

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a career coach and recruiter for what seems like one hundred years.

JobSearchCoachingHQ.com changes that with great advice for job hunters—videos, my books and guides to job hunting, podcasts, articles, PLUS a community for you to ask questions of PLUS the ability to ask me questions where I function as your ally with no conflict of interest answering your questions.

Connect with me on LinkedIn

You can order a copy of “Diagnosing Your Job Search Problems” for Kindle for $.99 and receive free Kindle versions of “No BS Resume Advice” and “Interview Preparation.”

Don’t forget to give the show 5 stars and a good review in iTunes

Being a Real Leader on Job Interviews | No BS Job Search Advice Radio

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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter points out the false “Hollywood Leadership Model,” defines what leadership really is and encourages you to show it on your interviews.

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Do you really think employers are trying to help you?

You already know you can’t trust recruiters—they tell you as much as they think you need to know to take the job they after representing so they collect their payday.

The skills needed to find a job are different yet complement the skills needed to do a job.

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a career coach and recruiter for what seems like one hundred years.

JobSearchCoachingHQ.com changes that with great advice for job hunters—videos, my books and guides to job hunting, podcasts, articles, PLUS a community for you to ask questions of PLUS the ability to ask me questions where I function as your ally with no conflict of interest answering your questions.

Connect with me on LinkedIn

You can order a copy of “Diagnosing Your Job Search Problems” for Kindle for $.99 and receive free Kindle versions of “No BS Resume Advice” and “Interview Preparation.”

Don’t forget to give the show 5 stars and a good review in iTunes

The Emotional Side of Job Hunting | No BS Job Search Advice Radio

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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter discusses the emotional side of job hunting and encourages you to get support.

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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter is a coach who worked as a recruiter for what seems like one hundred years. His work involves life coaching, as well as executive job search coaching and leadership coaching.

JobSearchCoachingHQ.com offers great advice for job hunters—videos, my books and guides to job hunting, podcasts, articles, PLUS a community for you to ask questions of PLUS the ability to ask me questions where I function as your ally with no conflict of interest answering your questions.

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You can order a copy of “Diagnosing Your Job Search Problems” for Kindle for $.99 and receive free Kindle versions of “No BS Resume Advice” and “Interview Preparation.”

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Are you interested in executive job search coaching, leadership coaching or life coaching from me?  Email me at JeffAltman@TheBigGameHunter.us and put the word, “Coaching” in the subject line.

Let’s Get Boolean | No BS Job Search Advice Radio

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Jeff Altman, The Big Game  Hunter explains a Boolean search string that will help you connect with people at companies if you have a small LinkedIn network.

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Let’s talk about how to find people to submit your resume to and network with. If you have a small LinkedIn network.

If you have a small network, it’s hard to have 1st and 2nd level connections to network with and to find the hiring managers and organizations you want to submit your resume to.  There is a workaround to it. It’s not on LinkedIn. You may have heard of the site before. It’s called… Google.

What you do is a Google site search.  You enter

site:www.LinkedIn.com then enter the name of the organization you want to connect into and then the titleof the individual that you want to reach out to.

Let’s say you’re trying to apply for an engineering position and your network is small and you want to find the head of engineering for that organization.

Site: www.LinkedIn.com (United Technologies) (title of the person you want to connect with)

after that, to eliminate a lot of the extraneous stuff, you put –profile to eliminate some of the nonsense profiles that show up through the search.

What you will get are people who are in that job title who would be hiring managers at that organization.

Let’s say you want to find the CIO of a firm I’m going to make up a name and if by some chance it is the actual name of an organization. It is unintentional. I’m not trying to overwhelm them.

Site: www.LinkedIn.com (Goofy Drawers) you don’t need to put a single word (; just multiple words.  Next to it. You put the title CIO -profile

Thus you be able to find a person in an organization.

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Do you think employers are trying to help yo u?

You already know you can’t trust recruiters—they tell you as much as they think you need to know to take the job they after representing so they collect their payday.

The skills needed to find a job are different yet complement the skills needed to do a job.

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a career coach and recruiter for what seems like one hundred years.

JobSearchCoachingHQ.com changes that with great advice for job hunters—videos, my books and guides to job hunting, podcasts, articles, PLUS a community for you to ask questions of PLUS the ability to ask me questions where I function as your ally with no conflict of interest answering your questions.

Connect with me on LinkedIn

You can order a copy of “Diagnosing Your Job Search Problems” for Kindle for $.99 and receive free Kindle versions of “No BS Resume Advice” and “Interview Preparation.”

Don’t forget to give the show 5 stars and a good review in iTunes

Looking Like an Expert on LinkedIn | No BS Job Search Advice Radio

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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter explains one of the ways to look like a subject matter expert on LinkedIn.

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Today I want to tell you how to appear like a subject matter expert on LinkedIn. It’s very easy and it is a fairly new feature on LinkedIn called the LinkedIn Publisher Platform. Almost everyone now has access to this feature. It allows you to post longform articles on almost any subject whatsoever.

Don’t be stupid and post ridiculous things. Be smart. The game plan with LinkedIn is to appear like a subject matter expert wherever you can. By writing regularly (I’m not saying to write daily or weekly). If you write one article every 2 or 3 weeks and posted and keep to a schedule of doing that, you will develop followers who like what you write. I’m seeing ordinary individuals who are getting 2 to 4000 people following them.

Your game plan is to establish a regular schedule of writing quality articles about what you do. Obviously, in some fields, this will work. If you are an administrative assistant, I can’t see you doing an article every 3 weeks. You can talk about organizing someone’s calendar. You can write about how to be defective administrative assistant. To do something like this on a regular schedule may be too hard for you.

I do see IT people doing. I do see accounting and finance people doing. Certainly headhunters do it. There are lots of different things that you can do to demonstrate that you are an expert using this platform. Because it is going to allow you to write longer articles that people will follow, read, and develop an impression of you.

That’s really what LinkedIn is all about– being seen and heard professionally, not like on Facebook, so that you develop the professional reputation where people want to connect with you and they want to hire you and retain your services.

When I look at the future in the United States. I’m not seeing the future of full-time jobs. I’m seeing a lot more freelance work ahead for us– where people work for stretches with an organization and then go on to another organization, more like the free-agent model.

If I’m right, this is an ideal platform where people are going to reach out to you and want to hire you. If I am wrong, companies are going to reach out to you. There is no losing proposition here!

When all is said and done, start using LinkedIn’s Publishing Platform to get articles published.

Where do you find it?On your homepage, if you have access to the features I suspect you do,on your homepage, beneath your photo, approximately 1/3 of the way down the page, there are 3 boxes to choose from.  The right hand most 1 says, “Write an article.”

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Do you really think employers are trying to help you?

You already know you can’t trust recruiters—they tell you as much as they think you need to know to take the job they after representing so they collect their payday.

The skills needed to find a job are different yet complement the skills needed to do a job.

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a career coach and recruiter for what seems like one hundred years.

JobSearchCoachingHQ.com changes that with great advice for job hunters—videos, my books and guides to job hunting, podcasts, articles, PLUS a community for you to ask questions of PLUS the ability to ask me questions where I function as your ally with no conflict of interest answering your questions.

Connect with me on LinkedIn

You can order a copy of “Diagnosing Your Job Search Problems” for Kindle for $.99 and receive free Kindle versions of “No BS Resume Advice” and “Interview Preparation.”

Don’t forget to give the show 5 stars and a good review in iTunes

Getting Past the No’s | No BS Job Search Advice Radio

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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter discusses the good fortune you have with each rejection.  At one point in the show, I mentioned that you can contact me through liveperson.com.  The site has re-branded and is now referred to as prestoexperts.com. The page here will take you directly to my page on the site where you can contact me.  You can also schedule time with me through my website.

 

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I want to talk with you today about persistence.  This is a tough lesson for most people to hear because, I know for myself, and maybe it’s true of you, I want to do something once, have the heavens open up, everything happens wonderfully and I am done.  I want success to occur the 1st time I attempt something and, unfortunately, doesn’t work that way.

Unfortunately, as the saying goes, you have to get through 99 no’s to get to a yes.

I want to remind you that persistence is the most important quality you need to have as a job hunter.  After all, so many of the efforts that you make are not going to amount to anything… But you just need one.  You just need one organization. If you are getting no’s . Don’t worry about it.  You have to get through all those no’s to get to a yes.  There are things you are going to learn along the way.

In all candor, I have to say if you are ill-informed, and you are doing things all wrong, you’re going to get a lot more. No’s that you are yeses.  It’s why do all the videos and all the podcasts I do.  It is in order to teach you some of the things that you need to know in order to not experience as much rejection through your ignorance.  If you want to find out about more things that you can be doing, if you want to ask for advice, you can contact me through prestoexperts.com or through my website.

Your goal is to just keep trying to learn from your mistakes to avoid mistakes if you can, and just keep going.

Success really comes during the 1st time someone starts. I can’t tell you the number of stories about inventors… Let’s do the Thomas Edison story… How many failures did Edison have before miraculously, before we now have a lightbulb? How many mistakes did Alexander Graham Bell have before you now have the telephone?

You have to keep making mistakes. You have to mess up in order to get to your triumph. Instead of facing each of those rejections or failures with, “Oh, woe is me,” considered good fortune because you that much closer to the target.

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Do you really think employers are trying to help you?

You already know you can’t trust recruiters—they tell you as much as they think you need to know to take the job they after representing so they collect their payday.

The skills needed to find a job are different yet complement the skills needed to do a job.

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a career coach and recruiter for what seems like one hundred years.

JobSearchCoachingHQ.com changes that with great advice for job hunters—videos, my books and guides to job hunting, podcasts, articles, PLUS a community for you to ask questions of PLUS the ability to ask me questions where I function as your ally with no conflict of interest answering your questions.

Connect with me on LinkedIn

You can order a copy of “Diagnosing Your Job Search Problems” for Kindle for $.99 and receive free Kindle versions of “No BS Resume Advice” and “Interview Preparation.”

Don’t forget to give the show 5 stars and a good review in iTunes

A Review of Glassdoor.com | No BS Job Search Advice Radio

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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter provides a review of Glassdoor.com and the services it provides.

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I’m here today with a review of glassdoor.com; I’m looking at the web-based version of the site, not the mobile version and I’m going to do a review of the website and the content it provides.

Like many sites, glassdoor.com carries job listings. That is certainly useful and there are a million places to get job listings from. This is a decent place to do it.  However, the place where I believe the site has its greatest value is in the employee reviews IF YOU LOOK AT THEM THROUGH THE CORRECT EYES.

Generally, there are 3 types of reviews here.  The 1st is the very disgruntled employee..  “This place is awful.  The management is terrible.”  In other words, all the complainers and whiners.  You have to look at those reviews and strip out the emotional tone to them. These are people who failed with the organization. That’s the way it is.  Is there a colonel in the air that is useful to you?  Is there something written there. That is confirmed by someone else?

Sometimes, they are reviews in there that seem like they were stacked by management.  I looked in a review for former employer of mine and it was almost a verbatim lien from what recruiting firms always say.  “You get what you put into it!”  Baloney.  You can look at some of the reviews that describe the firm as being perfect, idyllic and wonderful, management is spectacular… Throw them out. Don’t even bother.

Then there are reviews that are very textured and measured in what they say and they are not 2 lines of fluff or 2 lines of hatred.  Those are the perfect ones to read.

There is another feature that I think is very useful and that is the one where there are users who have provided insights into interviews and how firms conduct their interviews.  I took a look at 2 of my clients. There, in the reviews were pretty accurate.  Are they always going to be accurate?  No.  After all, for example, one hiring manager trying to hire a developer will ask different questions that another hiring manager trying to hire a developer.  But can you see a pattern?  What is the firm trying to evaluate and assess for?

There are many jobs for which no interview data is provided, but the ones that are may be very useful to you in your preparation for the interviews you’re going to go on.

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Do you really think employers are trying to help you?

You already know you can’t trust recruiters—they tell you as much as they think you need to know to take the job they after representing so they collect their payday.

The skills needed to find a job are different yet complement the skills needed to do a job.

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a career coach and recruiter for what seems like one hundred years.

JobSearchCoachingHQ.com changes that with great advice for job hunters—videos, my books and guides to job hunting, podcasts, articles, PLUS a community for you to ask questions of PLUS the ability to ask me questions where I function as your ally with no conflict of interest answering your questions.

Connect with me on LinkedIn

You can order a copy of “Diagnosing Your Job Search Problems” for Kindle for $.99 and receive free Kindle versions of “No BS Resume Advice” and “Interview Preparation.”

Don’t forget to give the show 5 stars and a good review in iTunes

LinkedIn Mistake #1 (VIDEO)

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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter discusses a major mistake people make when they are on LinkedIn.

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I want to talk with you about 1 of the mistakes I see time and again on LinkedIn. That way too many people are making with their profiles.  It’s what I call, “the skimpy profile.”

Yes, the skimpy profile.  The skimpy LinkedIn profile.  Maybe you’ve written 2 lines underneath each employer and you have this enormous summary.  Maybe. You have this profile I’ve seen all the time – – 2 lines in the region. Employer. 2 lines in the summary.  How do you think people are going to find you?

Seriously, how do you think people will find you unless they already know you?

Part of what you use LinkedIn for is to attract opportunities to you.  People knock on your metaphorical door and reach out to you to say, “hey, I have an opportunity. Let’s talk.”  You say yes or no, after you hear about the opportunity.  Not before; after.  Then, if you think about it, if you have 2 lines there, there are probably no keywords there, there is no SEO (search engine optimization). There is nothing there that would be interesting to them. Potential employer or recruiter that would cause them to reach out to you.

If you stuff the summary area within enormous list of keywords and then have nothing to back it up onto your jobs, employers have no idea when you did this thing.

Employers are all trained by the resume experience and they will believe that job hunters are trying to con them in order to get an interview.  When they see lots of summary stuff at the beginning of a resume, and relatively little later on (like the functional resume that tells you everything about a person in their life, their career and where they worked, but it’s all separated from one another). You will learn that this person did some of this stuff, but did 15 years ago.  No value.

You have to look at your profile like it is an extended resume.  I don’t mean a longer resume.  I mean an extension of the resume.  You have to have a good quality summary that outlines what you have done and how you went about doing and a few metrics.  You want to have your contact information. There email address and phone number.  This is true particularly if you are job hunting.

From there, underneath each employer or consulting assignment, depending upon how you have it listed, you want to have supportive information to what you have in the summary.  That is also going to help you with your search engine optimization with LinkedIn because LinkedIn will see multiple instances of those keywords and help rank you higher.

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Do you really think employers are trying to help you?

You already know you can’t trust recruiters—they tell you as much as they think you need to know to take the job they after representing so they collect their payday.

The skills needed to find a job are different yet complement the skills needed to do a job.

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a career coach and recruiter for what seems like one hundred years.

JobSearchCoachingHQ.com changes that with great advice for job hunters—videos, my books and guides to job hunting, podcasts, articles, PLUS a community for you to ask questions of PLUS the ability to ask me questions where I function as your ally with no conflict of interest answering your questions.

Connect with me on LinkedIn

You can order a copy of “Diagnosing Your Job Search Problems” for Kindle for $.99 and receive free Kindle versions of “No BS Resume Advice” and “Interview Preparation.”

Don’t forget to give the show 5 stars and a good review in iTunes

Wake Up! The Next One Is Coming! | No BS Job Search Advice Radio

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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter encourages you to be proactive not reactive.

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I want to have a real straightforward conversation with you and say something that I’m sure that you don’t want to hear, I’m sure you don’t want to act on, but you need to hear it and you need to act on.  What’s that advice?  It’s real simple.

The next recession is coming.

I don’t know when it’s going to happen, but do you think we are not going to have another session?  Do you think that the US and global economies going to be so stalwart that nothing bad is ever going to happen again?  Do you think you are not at risk if the next slowdown occurs?

Of course, you are.  Of course you are at risk.  Of course there is going to be another recession.

It is important to start taking action NOW before you need resources available to you, in order to protect yourself and your family in case this occurs sooner than you are prepared for.  If you listen to this, you would’ve heard me hesitate because I wasn’t sure whether to say it the way I did, or whether to say in case he catches you by surprise.

When all is said and done, cut your spending habits down now.  Save some money.  A statistic I saw recently sent almost half the US population lives paycheck to paycheck.  How could you afford to write to restore if those are your circumstances?  Cut your spending.  

Next, do networking now.  Build up your connections. Communicate with your connections.  Communicate with friends, former colleagues, former managers… I’m not saying doing daily or weekly.  Don’t let them slide. Reach out to people.  Get involved with meet ups.  Get involved with professional associations.  Do stuff so that people know you.

Does that guarantee anything?  No.  Obviously, every resource you connect with can wind up needing you more than you need them.  But, number 1, you could be prepared to help them. If that happens. And, number 2, if you need them. You are not coming in as a stranger. You are someone who is coming in with social proof, who is light and has capabilities and they will be there to vouch for you.  Again, start preparing now. Don’t waste time.  Time is not your ally here. The next recession is coming and don’t be a fool by avoiding doing your homework.

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Do you really think employers are trying to help you?

You already know you can’t trust recruiters—they tell you as much as they think you need to know to take the job they after representing so they collect their payday.

The skills needed to find a job are different yet complement the skills needed to do a job.

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a career coach and recruiter for what seems like one hundred years.

JobSearchCoachingHQ.com changes that with great advice for job hunters—videos, my books and guides to job hunting, podcasts, articles, PLUS a community for you to ask questions of PLUS the ability to ask me questions where I function as your ally with no conflict of interest answering your questions.

Connect with me on LinkedIn

You can order a copy of “Diagnosing Your Job Search Problems” for Kindle for $.99 and receive free Kindle versions of “No BS Resume Advice” and “Interview Preparation.”

Don’t forget to give the show 5 stars and a good review in iTunes

 

Give Endorsements to Get Endorsements on LinkedIn | No BS Job Search Advice Radio

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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter encourages you to give endorsements on LinkedIn in order to get endorsements on LinkedIn.

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Here’s a way to really stand out from your competition.

Understand that there are a lot of recruiters both corporate and third-party recruiters who are using a product called LinkedIn Recruiter to identify candidates on the web.  What we are doing is going out there to evaluate skills and (1) search engine optimizing your profile with keywords that might be used as part of the search for what you do is a big part of how you might become visible. Another way to stand out is by receiving endorsements.

You can ask your entire network to endorse you, but, frankly, you look like a mooch when you do that.  I want to suggest that you reach out by giving endorsements.  Remember the old saying, “Give more.  Get more.”  Giving endorsements, particularly to those who know you so that they profit by the relationship, will help you get endorsements back in return.

I want to say that there is reciprocity because I don’t give endorsements because I don’t really know the work that you do.  I don’t sit next to you. I’m a coach.  I’ve done recruiting.  If I give endorsements, people will believe that your entire list of endorsements is bogus!,  Instead, I want to encourage you  to give endorsements to those who you have a basis of judging their work.  Complement people.

You’ll discover that your number of endorsements will increase.  Knowing that there is a bias that recruiters and employers have toward passive candidates, you will look like the superior person to them by having large numbers of endorsements.  After all, when you think about it, when you look at my LinkedIn profile and see that I have been endorsed 500 some odd times for one attribute or another, there is a message and that, especially, especially when you notice that the average recruiter may have fewer than 20.

Stand out from my work because people have seen it and like it.  Look for that same thing, too, but give it in order to get it.

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Do you really think employers are trying to help you?

You already know you can’t trust recruiters—they tell you as much as they think you need to know to take the job they after representing so they collect their payday.

The skills needed to find a job are different yet complement the skills needed to do a job.

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a career coach and recruiter for what seems like one hundred years.

JobSearchCoachingHQ.com changes that with great advice for job hunters—videos, my books and guides to job hunting, podcasts, articles, PLUS a community for you to ask questions of PLUS the ability to ask me questions where I function as your ally with no conflict of interest answering your questions.

Connect with me on LinkedIn

You can order a copy of “Diagnosing Your Job Search Problems” for Kindle for $.99 and receive free Kindle versions of “No BS Resume Advice” and “Interview Preparation.”

Don’t forget to give the show 5 stars and a good review in iTunes