Posted by Dragan Donkov on November 10, 2009
This article was deep in to my archives. Probably I used it to train the staff of a recruitment company few years ago.
Unfortunately I don’t remember the source but I believe that is worth to share .
When it comes to motivating a hiring manager or internal recruiter to move on your submittal, remember the catchy saying…”Time kills all deals.”
One of the most frustrating things to a recruiter is the lag time between finding and submitting a good candidate and getting meaningful feedback through the screening process. Think about it: how often have you taken a request for talent and spent weeks doing the sourcing, pre-screening, preparing and presenting your candidate’s case? Now comes the exciting part, right? Your hiring manger or internal recruiter calls you right away, excited about your candidate and asks when they can come in for an interview. Yeah, right! Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Dragan Donkov on May 28, 2009
It’s very hard to write your own resume because a resume is a macro view of your life, but you live your life at the micro level, obsessing about daily details that have no bearing on your resume. For that reason, a lot of people hire someone to help them. After all, spending money on a resume writer is one of the few expenditures that will have good return right away. But if you’re writing your resume on your own, the first thing you’ll have to do is make some mental shifts. You need to rethink the goals of a resume, and rethink the rules of a resume in order to approach the project like the best of the resume professionals. That means not making the most common resume mistakes, and not breaking a few key rules.
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Posted by Dragan Donkov on May 15, 2009
Most people spend a lot of time preparing answers to the most common interview questions. They are ready to answer questions about their current job, their exercise and education. But how many people spend as much time preparing to actually interview the interviewer?
Sometimes asking the correct questions is just as important as answering the questions correctly.
Here is a list of the questions I think you should ask during the interview:
- How big is the company, how big is the team?
- Could you give me your view for the job?
- How would you describe your ideal candidate?
- What will be the greatest challenge in the job?
- How do you measure success on the job?
- Could you explain your organizational structure?
- What are the company’s values and culture?
- Is this a new post or already existing one?
- Strength and weaknesses of the current operation?
- If I am offered the position, how soon will you need my response?
- Why should I accept this job?
Which are your favorite questions during an interview?
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Posted by Dragan Donkov on May 7, 2009
“The great Zen insight of public speaking is to realize that speeches are about the audience, not the
speaker.”
Nick Morgan asks: Why is most public speaking so awful? Why do we subject our fellow human beings to this form of torture when there are so many better things we could all be doing, like cutting our toenails, baking snickerdoodles, or watching re-runs of The Prisoner?
You’re in a ballroom with no windows in some random airport hotel. The lighting is dim. The whir of the heating system fills your ears with white noise. The colors around you are shades of grey and beige with puce trimmings. You’re only awake because you’ve had 1300 cups of coffee from the urn in the hallway. Let the speaking games begin. It’s a diabolical sensory deprivation experiment. Why is most public speaking so awful? Beyond soulless venues and Death by Power Point, speakers make the same four mistakes over and over again, continuing the sorry state of the art.”
Download Before You Open Your Mouth: The Keys to Great Public Speaking and learn what the four mistakes are (and how to avoid them).
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