by Rick Christensen | Mar 28, 2019 | Career Transition, Job Search, Rick Christensen
Most online applications ask the “What is your desired salary?” question. Usually this question is a required field, meaning you have to answer it before going to the next section. It is also a numeric field, so you need to put in a number (usually a...
by Rick Christensen | Mar 21, 2019 | Career Transition, Job Search, Rick Christensen
I am often asked if a person should accept an offer or wait until something better comes along. It depends. It is obviously very stressful to be unemployed because the bills are still coming in even when the paycheck stops. That’s why financial...
by Rick Christensen | Mar 14, 2019 | Job Search, On-Boarding, Rick Christensen
You’ve finally done it–you landed the job that you were after. All the hard work and preparation in getting the resume and interview right have paid off. You are excited to start work and impress your new employer and get off on the right foot with your new coworkers....
by Rick Christensen | Feb 28, 2019 | Career Transition, Interviewing, Job Search, Rick Christensen
A majority (58% to be exact) of the message we convey is through our body language, this is known as non-verbal communication. Only 7% of our message is made of the words we use. In preparing for job interviews most of us concentrate on making sure we have the “right”...
by Rick Christensen | Feb 14, 2019 | Career Transition, Job Search, Job Success, Rick Christensen, Success
Even in today’s digital age, trusted personal referrals and recommendations carry the most weight when selecting a new employee out of a pool of candidates. Your resume, your online job application, and your LinkedIn profile are all digital files. They cannot speak...
by Mike Duke | Feb 6, 2019 | Career Development Partners, Career Transition, Executive Search, High Performance, Human Resources, Job Search, Job Success, Leadership, Mike Duke, Success, Successful People
With the unemployment rate at 4%, the US Chamber of Commerce is stating we are at “Full Employment”. Full employment does not mean every person in the US is employed. It means the only people unemployed are the chronically unemployed or those unemployed by...
