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Video: How to Get a Job After College Graduation
March 13, 2013 by Steven RothbergI recently was interviewed via Skype by Jordie Kern of 1 Degree Hire, which is a resource for first-time job seekers. More specifically, 1 Degree Hire is a 21-day step-by-step program designed to make recent graduates more marketable, better understand what employers want, and give those grads an edge over others who are competing for the same jobs.
The 1 Degree Hire system includes 21 days of intense preparation through a series of eBooks and MP3 audio downloads. Members also enjoy a personal consultation, resume and portfolio critique, e-mail support, and weekly webinars. In addition, they get insider access to an extensive video library of interviews with some of the nation’s most powerful CEOs and human resource professionals, who reveal what they look for in a candidate and what key questions they typically ask in an interview.
Jordie and I talked about CollegeRecruiter.com and what recent college graduates should do in order to increase their chances of being hired. Listen in: Continue Reading
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Employers Taking 30+ Days to Extend Offers After Interview Date
February 19, 2013 by Steven Rothberg
How long can a college student expect to wait for a job offer after an interview? And, after an offer is extended, how long will he or she have to accept or reject it?NACE’s 2012 Recruiting Benchmarks Survey found that, on average, employers hiring new college graduates take 24.2 business days to extend an offer to a college student after an interview. If you add in weekend and holiday days, that means that the employers are asking the average candidate to wait more than 30 days from the date of their interview to receive an offer of employment. Once an offer has been extended, employers then give the candidate an average of 14.1 business days to make a decision. Continue Reading
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Decoding Job Descriptions
January 14, 2013 by William Frierson
The more time you spend searching job boards and scanning through job postings, the more you may start to recognize certain phrases and terms that appear over and over again. Some of these terms may be a little confusing or open to interpretation. Here’s a simple guide that can help you make sense of a few of the most common phrases. Continue Reading -
How to Negotiate an Offer
December 27, 2012 by William Frierson
Before accepting a job offer, you need to think about what you will get out of it. Learn more about how you can use negotiation to your advantage in the following post.Great news! You aced your interview and have received an offer for a rewarding career, but the journey to your new career doesn’t end here. For many, negotiating the offer can be the most difficult part of finding a job. You may not know what you are worth in the civilian workplace, or have unrealistic expectations in terms of salary. Here is a guide to this complex step of the process.
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How Do You Handle the ‘Low-Ball’ Salary Offer?
December 17, 2012 by William FriersonHave you been offered a great job, but given a smaller salary than you expected? The following post explains how to handle this situation.Editor’s Note: This blog is a modified excerpt from professional “headhunter” and bestselling job-hunting book author Skip Freeman’s next book in the “Headhunter” Hiring Secrets series of job-hunting books, Career Stalled? Publication is scheduled for late fall.
You literally breezed through all the preliminary “screening” steps in your quest to land a GREAT new job at a GREAT company that’s a recognized leader in your industry. And three months after beginning your quest, you have just completed your third face-to-face interview with the hiring manager. At every step along the way you clearly branded yourself as the candidate of choice. You feel absolutely certain that a job offer is imminent!
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How to Make Sure “Binders Full of Women” Get Equal Pay
October 24, 2012 by William Frierson
Jim Hopkinson, Salary.com contributing writer
Politics. Women. Money.
When you’re talking about those three subjects, you’re either watching a Presidential debate or sitting at a very interesting dinner party.
One of the hot topics coming out of the October 16 town hall presidential debate was the subject of fair hiring practices for women. As Mitt Romney told a story about his push to hire more women in his cabinet, he uttered the phrase “Binders full of women” in reference to the stacks of resumes of qualified candidates that were brought to him. Continue Reading
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With Unemployment High for Returning Vets, Nine Tips for Acing the Job Interview
October 18, 2012 by William Frierson
Jim Camp, Vietnam vet, and President and CEO of The Camp Negotiation Institute
There’s bad news and good news for post 9/11 returning veterans, known as the Gulf War Era II vets. The government’s October 2012 employment figures show that the unemployment rate for Gulf War Era II vets is 9.7%; but for the youngest vets, age 20-24, it’s a whopping 14.5% (compared to 12.1% for nonveterans), and for vets age 25-29, it’s 11.5% (compared to 8.7% for nonveterans).
In a 2012 Society for Human Resource Management poll of 359 HR professionals, 50% of the respondents said that one of the biggest challenges in hiring veterans is “translating military skills to civilian job experience.” Continue Reading
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10 Salary Negotiation Myths
August 31, 2012 by William FriersonJim Hopkinson, Salary.com contributing writer
A rough translation of a myth could be “a legendary story, usually concerning a hero or event, especially one that is concerned with deities or some practice, rite, or phenomenon of nature.”
Many people play up salary negotiation as some kind of mythical exploit, as if a Cyclops from human resources was guarding a 10 percent salary increase. Perhaps only few select heroes can effectively navigate this rite of passage and pierce the heavily guarded castle.
In reality, as author Selena Rezvani puts it, a negotiation can simply be “a conversation that ends in agreement.” So before you retreat back over the drawbridge, let’s take a look at the other definition of a myth — a falsehood — and see if we can come out victorious. Continue Reading
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How to Use LinkedIn to Negotiate Salary
August 15, 2012 by William FriersonFor our entire childhood, homework seemed like a chore or even punishment.
“OK class, take out your homework!”
“Go upstairs and do your homework!”
“You’re not watching any TV until you’ve finished your homework!”Aw, mom. But there’s a reason your parents and teachers insisted on this extra activity. When taken seriously, the extra work and practice prepares you to excel in a given task, be it algebra or literature.
“Do your homework” is also the first thing any expert will tell you when preparing for a job interview or salary negotiation. Unfortunately, like an antsy teenager hoping to get back to a game of Call of Duty, the average job-seeker just looks over the basics when preparing for a negotiation. Sure, he might check some competitive salaries online, talk to a friend or two, or have some dollar figures in mind, but is he really, truly prepared? Continue Reading
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Negotiating Salary in a Still Tough Job Market
July 17, 2012 by William Frierson
In this market, many job candidates are desperate for an offer – any offer. But even if you are new to an industry or have been unemployed for a while, is it smart to blindly accept the first number that an employer throws out? I don’t think so.Once you are inside an organization, raises are small and promotions are often slow coming, so you have to do what you can to maximize your salary and benefit package right out of the gate. But how can you do this when the employer has the upper hand and hundreds of qualified candidates from which to choose? Continue Reading
