Retained Search Cost: 33% of first year’s compensation, including base salary, target bonus, and sign-on bonus. Terms: One-third paid up front, one-third in thirty days, and one-third upon completion of the search. Expenses: With the widespread availability of video teleconferencing available, we are confident that we can do an excellent job without interviewing candidates in […]
How Many Times Have You Sent Your Resume to a Company… and Never Heard Back From Them? You fit the job perfectly…so why didn’t they call you for an interview? If You Want a Resume That Will Be Read and Reviewed by an Actual Human, Give No Mistakes Resumes a Try. We make sure your […]
Hourly Recruiting Occasionally a company might want to directly recruit candidates without actually doing it themselves. Maybe they don’t want to seem as if they are poaching from a competitor. Maybe they don’t have the capabilities in house to do direct recruiting. Or maybe they simply feel a third party is a better solution. We […]
Don’t Let Your Resume Go Out Alone Resumes are built on facts. Cover letters are persuasive tools. Together they create a one/two punch that can get you the interview. If You Want the Best Shot at the Interview, Use a Combined No Mistakes Resume/Cover Letter. A No Mistakes cover letter will help you get the interview. We Offer Three Options for Cover […]
Use or Utilize This post is more for the professional crowd. I may have mentioned that I worked as a headhunter for more than thirty years. During that time, I got a lot of résumés—more than twelve thousand of them. One thing that used to jump out at me was how people tried so hard […]
Make Sure Your Résumé Isn’t Wasting My Time When companies need to hire someone, they resort to what they feel is a process that works, and all too often, it’s a black-and-white decision. It has to be. The person screening résumés has a stack of 200–400 or more applications in front of them, and they […]
Ten Best Words to Put on a Résumé A while ago, I did a post on the ten words to avoid on your résumé. You can see it here. In that article, I mentioned how many of the “go-to” words people typically use are useless. I’m including a table I used in that post to show […]
Rules You Shouldn’t Break When Writing a Résumé The easy answer to that statement is “all of them” but that wouldn’t be correct. As we saw in a previous post, there are a few rules you want to break. The majority of them, however, should be adhered to. So read on for a quick rundown […]
Seven Worst Résumé Mistakes There are a lot of mistakes people make when writing résumés. Some are forgivable and some not. But instead of talking about all the mistakes, let’s just discuss the seven worst résumé mistakes. What Is a Résumé’s Purpose? We’ve talked about this before also. A résumé has only one purpose—to get […]
It Takes a Great Résumé to Get an Interview Before we begin, let’s look at a few things that take a résumé down a peg or two. Spelling mistakes. This may be the number one reason why résumés go into the trash, and yet they’re so easy to fix. A quick run with a spellchecker […]
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