Posts by Dave Sgro

While there are thousands of jobs posted on millions of job boards and classified sites every day, are these really the best opportunities available to you? Companies will pay a recruiting firm top dollar to find them the candidates that are not actively looking or advertising themselves by sticking their resume on the job boards.…

It is true that you’re better off looking for a job when you are gainfully employed. Employers that are hiring look at people that are employed, happy, and successful as better candidates than people that are unemployed or “miserably employed”. This is fact, even though there are times when unemployment happens to A players for…

If you are looking for a new job opportunity and actively interviewing, how well do you listen to the interviewers you are meeting with? This is an important question. Think about when you are buying a car, or buying an appliance, or buying anything that has a big price tag. Are you more comfortable working…

Are you feeling tired of the daily grind of going in at putting in your time for your employer? Would you like to have more time off and more flexibility beyond your “vacation time” and “personal time off”? Do you feel underpaid knowing that the consultant that is working down the hall from you is…

I just read that in a recent Jobvite survey, over 40% of companies said they reconsidered candidates based on the content of their social media profiles. My guess it is higher than that, and recruiters use social media as way to FIND candidates, so we see it all the time! Often social media is our…

I was listening to ESPN Radio this morning and there was an interview with Mike Ditka. He was talking about an NFL player that Coach Mike really likes because you can tell he would pay to play in the NFL (even though he is getting paid $millions!). Coach Mike’s words “I love people that love…

So the interview is going along great. You have answered all the technical questions perfectly. Their seems to be some good chemistry going on between you and the interview team. The interview is approaching conclusion and you really think you nailed this one. “They love me”, your’re thinking. The interviewer is getting ready to wrap…

One thing that really turns off recruiters (or at least this recruiter), as much as we know not everyone is happy in their job, is hearing the negative talk about their job.  I personally get so turned off by it, I now eliminate many of these trash talkers from consideration for jobs.  Be positive and…

Today (9/11/13), we remember the attacks that hit our homeland 12 years ago and the subsequent attack on our embassy that happened just a year ago on this day. We must never forget.