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  • You heard it here first.  In the next couple years, your resume will only be one half of a page.
  • The GIG economy.  Predictions claim that in 2020, 40 percent of workers in the United States will be independent workers, also known as GIG workers (Intuit Research). 
  • I have always told job seekers that if you can find a hiring manager at a company you want to work for who is active on Twitter, you hit a homerun.
  • Back in the old days when you needed a great employee you would call your local newspaper, pay anywhere from $350.00-$1,200.00 to run a classified ad in the employment section.
  • Many job seekers leave interviews thinking they did a great job and just to find out they didn’t get the job.  It may have happened to you.
  • It’s hard to believe that almost two million people live in the Orlando MSA. Not only that, Orlando is the second to only Naples for population growth. Jobs are at the heart of these moves. Many move to Central Florida thinking we have tons of jobs and we spend all day on the beach. In realit...
  • Each year it seems like the Central Florida human resource community comes up with ways to keep making their jobs even harder. You are already asked to deal with budgets, technology, insurance, compliance, benefits, hiring, firing and organizing company events. Add stay interviews to the list. ...
  • According to from Bersin by Deloitte, US companies are spending an average of $4,000 in cost per hire in 2015. That is expensive especially when your hire doesn’t work out. It may be time to consider doing some blind interviewing.
  • The number one complaint by jobseekers is the lack of communication when you apply to a job (that you qualify for) and never hear back from the employer. This could be due to many factors like a poor resume, numerous jobs or a poor internal screening process. No matter what the reason, most job s...
  • In 2015 I spoke with over 5,000 job seekers at career events at colleges, career expos and in my own offices. One thing for sure, they have a lot of ideas on how their job search experience can be improved. I asked many of them to tell me what frustrates them the most when looking for a job and...
  • When you apply to a job with a larger company today, you will inadvertently have to use their applicant tracking system (ATS) to create your own “web page” on their internal servers. The company will use their own search terms to find you and if your information matches, you may get called for a...
  • If all companies and recruiters had one wish it would be to make all job seekers and job curious use only one exclusive job board when seeking employment. It used to be that way in the Sunday Newspaper classifieds before the internet. If your jobs were not in the Sunday paper, you would not ge...
  • 2016 is looming right around the corner. Is it time for a new job? The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS.gov) official unemployment rate is the also known as the U-3. Nationally, that rate is 5.0% (October 2015). This is pretty good. The US has added a lot of jobs in 2015 and seems like that i...
  • The recession was pretty brutal to the live job fair industry. Employers had no reason to attend simply because they had too many resumes coming in for the few jobs they had open. Many of the job fairs during this time featured few jobs (many jobs being 100% commission) and lots of education re...
  • My checklist for first impressions is very simple and it should be. When interviewing, so many spend time trying to memorize canned answers to questions like, “tell me about your greatest weakness?” Sure you need to be prepared but make sure that you do a great job with your first impression. ...
  • We have all heard the saying "always the bride's maid, but never the bride. It is a sad, old cliché, yet for some candidates interviewing for a job, it may seem like the norm for them in the interviewing process as they always make it to the final interview, but are passed over for another candi...
  • According to Bersin & Associates, U.S. companies are spending and average of $3,500 per employee to just recruit them. While finding great talent is difficult, after over twenty years in the recruiting business, I think one of the main reasons this cost is so high is because employers are taking...
  • Bring back the recession! For recruiters and human resource departments, the recession made any resource you used to find talent the “best thing ever”. Sure, you didn’t have many openings and millions of great people were unemployed and looking for work. In addition, your internal referrals we...
  • For most of you, I wish all interviewers started off with this question. Answered properly, it allows you to set the tone for the rest of the interview. Unfortunately for many, it also is why so many of you screw up the interview.
  • For most Central Florida companies who need to hire, they usually have a “go to” procedure that takes the job requisition and posts it to their company website as well as employment sites like OrlandoJobs.com. Copy and paste is still the preferred way to post these jobs that have job titles and ...