When a recruiter is meeting with you, they are mostly trying to assess whether you are a placeable candidate or not. A placeable candidate is a candidate who will interview well, and take a job if offered. The quality of “placeability” is partly about how in-demand your skills and experience are, and you cannot do [...]
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There are a couple of trends in resume writing which are popular but not necessarily appropriate. One of those trends is putting a list of your skills at the top of your resume; like you are putting meta-tags on a web-page. As a recruiter I never looked at those skills because is they are an unverifiable self [...]
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A lot of professionals I meet with who have been struggling with issues around job search believe that they have some inherent value, which people are just failing to see. Of course, everyone has value in a happy, warm-fuzzy feelings way, but in a professional context we do not have inherent value. Rather, as professionals [...]
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My purpose for starting this blog is to share what I hope are useful insights into career, professional branding, and the nature of value in the professional world. I hope the content is useful to anyone who is anywhere on their journey through their careers. Andrew
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