Posts Tagged: construction recruiters
Find Out the Financial Health of Your Target Employer
When you are applying for a job, naturally your main focus is on selling yourself to the company you are interviewing with. But at the same time, career counselors all advise that you need to investigate the company as well, to evaluate whether it would be a good place for you to work. One of Read more »
Harnessing the Positive Power of Stress
Whether you’re happily – or unhappily – employed or unemployed, one constant we all have to deal with is stress. We’ve been told by those in the health professions that too much stress is not good for us, that it can lead to various ailments and actually harm our bodies. And we are constantly bombarded Read more »
Acing the Second Interview
You’ve been called in for a second interview. Yes, congratulate yourself; you truly should be proud. But now you need to return to perhaps at least one or two of the same people – and probably some new ones — and wow them all over again. And you can rest assured that this interview will Read more »
Innovation in the Job Hunt
In today’s economy, the time to innovate isn’t when you begin your new job, it’ when you want to create an effective job search. The first way to innovate is with the kinds of questions you ask, because they set the course for the direction you are going to take, according to business analysts Jeff Read more »
When to Hire an HR Manager
How big does a company have to be before it hires a full-time human resource manager? According to Beth Sussman of Dovetail Human Resources, there really is no special number of workers that a company should have before hiring a full-time human resources manager. Instead, she says, what you need to look at are the Read more »
Showing Appreciation: Going Beyond the Obvious
If you are a human resources manager, you naturally rely on a lot of people in your organization to get things done. And it’s natural to show your gratitude to people who have helped you. But when it comes to showing appreciation, business consultants caution that you should look beyond the obvious people to those Read more »
Sustainability in the Workplace
A number of business experts argue that human resource departments need to take the lead in implementing sustainability programs for their companies. Human resource departments are best positioned to spearhead this type of initiative, they say. Sustainability generally refers to the efforts made to enhance quality of life for employees, society in general and making Read more »
Working with Recruiters in Your Job Search
One growing trend in the workplace is that employers are using recruiters more to look for workers as part of their hiring process. If you are looking for a job, it is to your advantage to know how to work with recruiters, and to know how they work. Preparation is key here. If you have Read more »
Today’s Informational Interview
As most people know, there are different kinds of interviews, and different interviewing techniques. Most of the attention given to interviews goes to those where a job is at stake. But there is another kind of interview — the informational interview — that doesn’t get as much attention as it deserves, because it too can Read more »
Reinventing Yourself and Your Resume
When writing a resume, we have a certain image of our career in mind, an image of how it has progressed, and what we have done. It is this version that we present to employers when we apply for a job. But career counselor Penelope Trunk says that if we are looking to switch careers Read more »