Two weeks ago, I posted the below image and message on LinkedIn: “A new disease is on the horizon—and it's career threatening. As the economy heats up, people switch jobs for the wrong reasons and catch ‘job hopping syndrome.’" In a few days, more than 150,000 people read the message. It’s obviously an important topic. The detailed post that followed explained...
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73.5 million people in the U.S. alone have a criminal record. To put that in perspective, that’s one in three working-age adults, convicted for everything from fishing without a license to teenage traffic violations (and serious crimes too, of course). That record can follow a person around for decades, even if they’ve turned their life around. And if your...
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One in three applicants for an entry-level job is unqualified. That’s a lot of resumes to sift through to find someone great. And if a job posting is attracting more unqualified applicants than usual—say, because of an ineffective job description—then you might be missing your mark completely. This was a problem that the city government of Edmonton, Canada knew...
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We’ve all been there: starting a job application and giving up halfway through. Maybe we realized we weren’t as qualified as we...
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My company does a lot of work helping organizations find outstanding salespeople. Because of that, I’ve personally become very...
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In a previous post on LinkedIn’s Talent Blog, I offered a semi-futuristic version of a recruiter competency model. In a more recent...
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