I’m often asked if there is a special approach of recommendations and skills endorsements on Linkedin and how these may differ from the references you need to prepare when taking part in a selection process.
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Excellent!! You have passed all the tests, assessments, interviews and reference checks. You have been patient enough to remain in the process for several weeks, even months… And there it is: the offer letter is in your hand.
Now is the time to sit down, take a deep breath and make up your mind. Will you accept or resign?
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Many studies are showing up these days on the internet (mostly regarding France, wonder why?), proving that the best tools for recruitment, both for candidates and recruiters, are ‘classic’ job-boards and ads, even spontaneous (but recommended) applications… They point out that tools like Linkedin are less useful.
It would be indeed stupid not to look at ads nor post your cv on dedicated websites if you want to change/find jobs. Let us just not forget that a job search is much more than that. This is too passive: some of us might do that forever and not get any results!
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People who want to change jobs or find a new one today know they have to take a pro-active approach: answering job ads is not enough, recruitment companies work on too few positions…
So everyone is networking now, contacting other people who they think can recruit them or lead them to those who would.
But that is not a walk in the park.
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The changes in the recruitment market will do us good, right?
I usually make a point of writing positive papers; I also have to be a realist…
All data in this article are an average of what I have been able to find on both the Polish and French markets, because for once both behave in a similar manner.
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The good days are back: my colleagues in Europe tell me since a few months recruitments have been again rising. You see it by the number of ads, or when companies explain their 2014 strategies.
With this trend back, I witness, once more, bad recruitment practices and wrong candidates attitudes. Those who read me are candidates or employers. Here is my message to you: please do not do this…
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So you want to meet people in charge in other companies, because you would like to change jobs or find your a new one in their organization?
Whether you think you know how to do it, or you don’t have a clue, please take a little time to read the following.
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Whether you live and work in Poland or in Western Europe, if you are unemployed these days, you better start working hard on finding your next job. It does not matter that you are a Senior, experienced manager, it will take time, efforts and energy. The market is not in favor of candidates any more, I’m seeing it both in my outplacement and executive search activities.
You will have to launch in a structured, demanding and probably long networking campaign. The good news is that, since it is the only way to control the next step in your professional destiny, you can aim high.
The American author Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote: “Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it”. That is so very true.
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