Yes, it’s tough out there. And yes the days of submitting your resume to a prospective employer and anticipating a response are gone. However, there are steps you can take to improve your odds of a call back. Check out 5 tips that may help improve your job search results in the current job market. 1.) Job Boards Employers [...]
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How To Get The Highest Job Offer
The key to receiving the highest job offer is timing. The best time to negotiate is after a job offer has been received. Most companies have internal organizational charts which include salary ranges for each position. For example, human resources professionals within a said company understand that they can offer a financial analyst with seven years of experience [...]
Your Chamber of Commerce: A Little Diamond in the Job Search Rough
There are a plethora of job search resources out there, from LinkedIn, to networking events, to taking advantage of career centers on campus. However, when you feel like your search methods have been exhausted, think about this: are you missing the most obvious option? For many, your local Chamber of Commerce isn’t the first place [...]
A Step-By-Step Keyword Guide
We’ve mentioned it a couple times. Beating the applicant tracking system (ATS) is very important when you’re trying to get in the employer’s pipeline. After all, with many hiring managers being bombarded with resumes, having the trusty ATS makes things a little easier on them. However, this means you need to be more strategic and [...]
The 3 Biggest ATS Mistakes You’re Making and How to Fix Them
Many employers fight an uphill battle to not only find the right candidates for the job, but to also weed through countless applications in order to find the perfect hire. That’s why so many hiring managers have implemented applicant tracking systems (ATS) into their hiring strategy. As we’ve said in the past, ATS’s are recruitment [...]
5 Ways to Figure Our Your Calling and Land the Job in the Process
For job seekers, finding that perfect career may only be half the battle. The other may actually be more difficult. Figuring out your calling may not seem that hard, but if you really think about it (and I mean for more than 10 minutes), discovering what you’re good at, and subsequently what you actually want [...]
3 Reasons Why EmploymentPipeline.com Will Land You a Job
At EmploymentPipeline.com, it’s our mission to assist job seekers in finding the most suitable opportunities, ones you’ll not only be happy with, but also the ones that will help you use your knowledge, skills, and experiences in the best ways. Sure, there are a lot of other platforms out there which claim to help job [...]
How to Fill Gaps in Your Resume
It’s a question many of us have to ask ourselves during a slumping job market: how can I justify and even fill gaps in my resume? It’s like a Catch-22: if you’re actively searching for jobs like it’s your job, how can you fill in the spaces in your resume? You may feel that since most of [...]
College Seniors: 5 Things You Must Do Before Graduation
If you’re a college senior, you’re probably a little intimidated about life after graduation. You’ve also probably heard job hunting numbers being thrown around left and right, like the 20 million Americans who aren’t employed, the seven applicants per job, and the staggering 9% unemployment rate. With these numbers and figures in mind, it can [...]
How Transferable Skills Can Land You a Job
There are a few things all job seekers need to have, like in-depth experience, solid references, and a pretty legitimate job search plan. However, apart from the norm, transferable skills are just another way you can kill the job search woes and land yourself a job. For those who aren’t familiar, transferable skills are those [...]
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