5 Best Practices for Job Seekers Looking for Next Career Opportunity

A recent survey asked top third party recruiters (also known as headhunters) to weigh-in on best practices to help job seekers find their next career opportunity. The data suggests that when submitting job applications, developing an online profile and networking with recruiters, there are some very clear do’s and don’ts.

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49% of Recruiters Say Managers With Innovation Skills In High Demand

Forty-nine percent of the executive recruiters surveyed by ExecuNet revealed that executive and other managers with proven innovation skills were hard to find, compared to other skills, and 31 percent said companies were willing to pay a premium for innovative talent – even in today’s job market.

“With product lifecycles declining rapidly, increased global competition and pressure from changing customer needs, executives who have demonstrated they can challenge business assumptions and find the areas of opportunities in current business models are in demand,” says Mark Anderson, President of ExecuNet. “We counsel executives everyday that they have to do more than claim they were ‘innovative’ on their résumés. They need to show a quantifiable history of innovating and its impact on their previous organizations,” adds Anderson.

To negotiate top pay for top innovation skills, executive recruiters revealed that 32 percent of hiring managers “want concrete examples of innovation by the candidate in previous positions.” Continue Reading

How to Get an Executive Headhunter’s Attention

Jessica Holbrook Hernandez of Great Resumes Fast

If you’re an executive on the prowl for a new position, then you probably feel that you’ve turned every stone with no luck at all. But if you haven’t interacted with an executive headhunter, then you still have a few options available to you.

Executive headhunters—or recruiters—take on the mission of matching top-level talent with top-level job openings. They are considered the matchmakers of the business world and can do an amazing job of linking you with your next position. But of course, you first must catch their attention. Here are some ways to get noticed: Continue Reading

How To Work With a Headhunter

Ken Sundheim, CEO of KAS Placement

There is an air of confused mystery around working with a head hunter and how to best approach a recruiting firm to find the job you think fits both your personality and salary requirements.

Unfortunately, much of the information floating around about how to best work with a head hunter is inaccurate. Follow the below tips and you’ll be one step closer to your dream job. Continue Reading

7 Reasons Why I.T. Recruiters May Reject Your Resume

A new report from Kovasys IT Recruitment answers a question that many information technology candidates are asking: “Why are the technology recruiters ignoring my resume?” According to Alex Kovalenko, a technical recruiting manager at Kovasys Inc., “If a tech recruiter can not tell within ten seconds that you are worth a call then your resume will go straight into a recycle bin. Keep in mind that at our firm recruiters can review up to 50 resumes every day and can not spend hours reviewing resumes.”

Mr. Kovalenko says that there are seven reasons why IT recruiters could potentially reject your resume and are as follows: Continue Reading