Month: April 2016
6 Second Job Search Tips: Resumes
A six second video about your resume.
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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a career coach and recruiter for what seems like one hundred years.
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You Make Me Crazy!!!
Another reminder of something job hunters do it makes me crazy!
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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a career coach and recruiter for what seems like one hundred years.
Follow him at The Big Game Hunter, Inc. on LinkedIn for more articles, videos and podcasts than what are offered here and jobs he is recruiting for.
Visit www.TheBigGameHunter.us. There’s a lot more advice there.
Pay what you want for my books about job search
Subscribe to TheBigGameHunterTV on YouTube for advice about job hunting and hiring. Like videos, share and comment.
Trying to hire someone? Email me at JeffAltman@TheBigGameHunter.us
Do you need more in-depth coaching? Join my Coaching program.
Want to ask me questions via phone, Skype or Facetime? Have your job search questions answered.
The Two Dirty Words to Never Use in a Job Interview
Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter tells you the two dirty words never to use in an interview.
Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a career coach and recruiter for what seems like one hundred years.
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What Do You Do When You Hire Someone?
Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter answers a tough interview question, “what do you do when you hire someone?
Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a career coach and recruiter for what seems like one hundred years.
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Dealing with “The Question” The Hardest Task in Looking for a Job
You’re at a gathering with family at some holiday or at a get-together with friends when someone tries to make conversation with you by asking “The Question.”
Or maybe “The Question” is asked by someone out of the blue who calls you.
What’s “The Question?”
“The Question” is, “How is your job search going?”
Or maybe it’s, “How did that interview turn out?”
We all have questions like that in life. Mine is, “How is your book coming along?” It used to turn my stomach because it is asked by people who want to see me fail and have no real interest in my succeeding. Maybe your circumstances are different but those are mine.
So the hardest task you have in looking is managing your own emotions throughout the process. Even when an interview is internal to your organization, the impact of interview failure can be really upsetting.
A friend (whom I hope remains a friend after reading this) had a disastrous internal interview that would have involved a transfer. His failure was humiliating and took several months to recover from.
You cannot afford several months of recovery time after coming in second.
More than a decade ago, I ran and finished the New York Marathon and, from that experience, I learned that much of life is more like a running a marathon,
not a sprint. You need to be prepared to go longer and further than you ever have, instead of just running for nine or ten seconds.
This is another of those cases where patience is a virtue.
© The Big Game Hunter, Inc. Asheville, NC 2008, 2016
Why Do You Need a Job Search Coach?
Why do you need a coach? Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter explains the advantage of his coaching you through your job search.
Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a career coach and recruiter for what seems like one hundred years.
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Changing Careers? Do You Know What You Need?
While attending the New Kadampa festival in New York State we met a couple my wife and son met previously in England. The wives talked about children and the men talked about work — but it was his wife’s work.
She is teaching at a university and was thinking of leaving academia for industry. She has undergraduate and advanced degrees in applied math. I thought of her for quantitative jobs and asked: Does she know what she needs to know to make the change in career? Meaning, has she spoken about different career alternatives and learned about the experience and training she will need to have?
When I was asked how to research new requirements for the field, I politely said that often guidance counselors, academic advisers and others in the career advice industry are lagging the field.
I offered a simple suggestion
Use Google.
Do a Google search for resumes in your new field in your region of the country and call up the people. Tell them that you saw their resume on the web, weren’t trying to hire them but wanted to pick their brain.
Ask them about how they broke in and what their firm looks for in the way of training and experience Ask if there are any industry groups they could point you to that you could join. Then thank them profusely for their generosity.
Most people are very generous with their time as long as you aren’t abusive.
And then return the favor when someone calls you.
© The Big Game Hunter, Inc. Asheville, NC 2008, 2016
Do you really think employers are trying to help you? You already know you can’t trust recruiters—they tell as they think you need to know to take the job they after representing so they collect their payday.
Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a career coach and recruiter for what seems like one hundred years.
JobSearchCoachingHQ.com is there to change 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.