All Blog Posts Tagged 'resume' (492)

Job Search Tip: Keep a Brag Book

If you’re looking for a job in medical sales, clinical diagnostics sales, laboratory sales, DNA sales, medical supplies or equipment sales, pharmaceutical sales, or biotechnology sales, marketing, or tech support (or you will be soon), it would help you tremendously to have a brag book.

A brag book is a list of your accomplishments (stories for behavioral interviews, right here), new skills and training, stack rankings, performance reviews, e-mails or letters from satisfied… Continue

Added by Peggy McKee on July 18, 2008 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Interview Skill: How to Handle the Money Question

Salary negotiations can be the most stressful part of the entire interview process in medical sales, laboratory sales, clinical diagnostics sales, biotech sales, molecular products sales, cellular products sales, medical device sales, pathology sales, imaging sales, or pharmaceutical sales.

The video below is designed to help you navigate your way through.

So: How do you answer questions in the interviewing process that have to do with your… Continue

Added by Peggy McKee on July 15, 2008 at 8:00pm — No Comments

Job search tip: Choose your references wisely

Recently, I had a candidate who was going to get an offer–it was all over but the references. And that’s where it all went wrong. We began calling to check (yes, we really do that) and two days later, only one was done. It wasn’t even a matter of them trashing my candidate…they just wouldn’t return our calls.

If your references don’t even think enough of you to call back, it doesn’t reflect well on you. It cost my candidate a job.

Choose your references wisely. The best… Continue

Added by Peggy McKee on July 14, 2008 at 8:00pm — No Comments

Resume 2.0?

Domain names are cheap. Websites are pretty easy to develop. There's a proliferation of sites in the social & professional networking scene that allow fairly lengthy profiles to be built. Recruiters are using all of these media to dig deeper into our candidates lives already. We all know this stuff. The question is, when do you think document that we know now will replaced as the "king of resumes"? I don't think they'll ever completely go away, but there is a time in the not so distant… Continue

Added by Dave Templeman on July 10, 2008 at 9:50am — No Comments

Job interview advice from across the pond

Hey, look! I’m being watched in Ireland! (My videos, anyway.)

Paul Mullen, a career coach in Ireland, has highlighted my online videos as offering excellent advice (I have to agree…). Turns out, Paul offers some excellent advice, himself. His Measureability website offers psychometric testing (ability and personality assessments) and career coaching. It includes a career blog, with a post I like on Reasons for Interview Failure. He also has a Careers and Jobs blog focused on jobs in… Continue

Added by Peggy McKee on July 9, 2008 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Now Available! Class of 2009-2010 MBA Students and Alumni Resumes

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Be among the first to order access to the MBA resume database for the 2008-2009 academic year to identify the best MBA student candidates for your intern and full-time hiring needs. As of June 2, 2008 you may place your order for online resume books from over 60 of the world's top MBA Programs and get access to all of those schools’ candidates (first-year, second-year, part-time, executive, and alumni).

Simply click on the… Continue

Added by Ryan Pratt on July 8, 2008 at 3:55pm — No Comments

MBA Recruiting Made Easy!

Browse 40,000+ MBA Resumes and Work Profiles

Want to take a more hands on hiring approach and find the specific business talent your company is looking for? On the MBA Focus Direct Order Resume Database website, you can get access to more than 60 top MBA programs’ resume databases, and then filter through the 40,000 MBA candidates to find precisely the talent your company… Continue

Added by Ryan Pratt on July 8, 2008 at 3:52pm — No Comments

Job Search Tip: Too Much Information on your Social Networks

I get a lot of great comments from my readers, which I love. One of these was a response to MySpace Killed the Candidate…critical job interview tip, in which I told the cautionary tale of one of my candidates leaving too much information on her MySpace page and losing a job opportunity: avoid such issues by ”setting your social networks to private.” I agree that it is best to set your social network sites to private, and be careful who you accept as a friend.

Still, there are things… Continue

Added by Peggy McKee on July 7, 2008 at 9:00pm — No Comments

LIES PROSPECTIVE EMPLOYEES USE ON THEIR RESUMES

While honesty is indeed the best policy, too many prospective employees tend to stretch the truth-- or not use the truth at all-- when they are making their resumes. If you are an employer, it can be beneficial for you to know about the most common lies you may find on a resume. If you are in the position of looking for a job, it is in everyone's best interest if you are factual and honest. No one wants to hire someone who lacks the integrity to be… Continue

Added by Todd Moss on May 13, 2008 at 12:33pm — 1 Comment

Video A Long Way From Commonplace? Well, Sort Of…

http://hirevue.com/blog/?p=74

Added by Bill Allred on May 9, 2008 at 12:35pm — No Comments

Courageous Careering - Story #1

I really enjoy discovering stories about people who completely change their lives. I admire people who make a plan and stick to it in order to make it happen. That is a fundamental philosophy of this blog…to career courageously through life and to not let people tell you that you can’t do something. As I come across stories like this, I will post them here. We can all learn from each other’s experience.

I found this excellent… Continue

Added by Valerie Gonyea on April 16, 2008 at 3:00am — No Comments

Beyond the Resume? Intelligent Design for Mere Mortals

Seth Godin wrote a post called "Why bother having a resume?” in which he claims that truly extraordinary people do not require the standard job-seeking dossier. His point is that your “presentation” should include other tools to display your talents; these would include an insightful blog, fantastic recommendations from respected individuals, a sophisticated project… Continue

Added by Valerie Gonyea on March 30, 2008 at 1:00pm — No Comments