Agile Story Points for Job Search

If you are an Agile purist, you may want to look away. I’d love to get your thoughts on this new Agile process tool I built for job seekers, Since they are operating as a one-person team, assigning story points to tasks is challenging. Clearly, planning poker and other team oriented consensus decisions are not possible, and for those who don’t know what a story point is at all, it’s virtually impossible to consistently set useful values. To solve this issue, I built this quick tool below that you can try for yourself right here on this page…

A Better Birthday Wish

Did LinkedIn tell you a former colleague was having a birthday? As you clicked the “Say Happy Birthday” button, ever wonder why you are doing it? They know you LinkedIn remembered the day for you, and even wrote the message for you! All you did was click the button! What does that do for either of you?? What if there was a better way to say happy birthday that DOES get results?

What is ATS Compatibility?

To be compatible with an Applicant Tracking System, or ATS, it must be able to read the content of your resume. If it cannot, then your contact information will not be available to the employer, thereby making it impossible for them to call you. Further, the ATS itself will likely delete your resume overnight as it cleans up the error submissions from the day. In this post, I will show you what recruiters see when a resume is NOT compatible.

Blasting your Resume will SLOW DOWN your Job Search!

Looking for a way to speed up your job search? Then you no doubt have seen the websites out there that promise to blast your resume out to over 300 employers with 1 click. This will effectively SLOW DOWN your search guaranteed. Here’s a great analogy for you…

Forum Examples – Answers to Job Search Questions

Here are 3 Member Questions and our Responses from our Forum. I’ve removed the names of the people and companies involved to protect confidentiality of the members in our Forum. Full Members of our site get Access to our Forum….

Apply to Jobs Before They Open! This is How

I’ve been getting requests from our subscribers about topics to cover, so today I want to cover two of them. One person said they keep hearing about people who are landing jobs that were created for them, how does that…

New Year Job Search Preparation

We have a new year coming up, which means the holidays will very soon be behind us, so today I want to show you a few things for your job search that you can set up now, to hit the…

Overqualified? NOoooo!!!

Have you ever been told you’re overqualified? Don’t you hate that? Why wouldn’t they want someone who they don’t have to train, right? Well today I’ll explain WHY the employers are so hesitant, and then specifically HOW you can address…

Find More Jobs

In a previous article called “Be Found Online” I showed you what you can do to your resume to more easily be found online by recruiters. Today I want to show you how you can reverse the process to find…

Handling Skeletons

I happen to be posting this article on Halloween, so I thought this would be a great day to talk about how to handle skeletons that might be in your closet, especially when it comes to job search. This blog…

Be Found Online

So often we focus on how we can find and chase opportunities, but wouldn’t it be great if opportunities found and chased us? We need to balance both equally and learn how to be found online, and today I will…

No Bad Days in Job Search

This week the focus is on how to handle the bad days, the days when you’d rather just stay in bed than to face another day of job search. Believe it or not you can still be productive on those…

More Keys to Networking

This article is a continuation from our blog post with some networking essentials for you. Depending on the source you check, you’ll find that somewhere between 75% and 90% of jobs that are filled each month are NOT advertised anywhere;…

THE Key to Networking

We all know that Networking is an essential element of any job search, but many people don’t know specifically HOW to network. So in this quick article I’ll share with you the most important element of networking, and then give…

Get Strategic Referrals

Job search can seem like a giant jigsaw puzzle that’s missing about 15 pieces, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Here’s an idea that can bring you some leads from a very unexpected source, but is strategically the…

Making Talented Choices

I have great news that I don’t think most job seekers really understand fully. “Landing a job is more about the choices you make than about your skill set or experience.”

Conquer Job Search Stress

Is your Job Search getting stressful? It’s important to know that stress is more of a mindset that’s been given to you, but with some intentional redirection, you can conquer it. This blog originated from a video that’s posted on our…

Eliminate Job Search Exhaustion

For the last 4 months, I’ve been posting a new video every week on my YouTube Channel with some Job Search Tactics and Motivation to help job seekers. Since some people would rather read than watch, I thought I should…

Who is Evaluating Whom?

The last time I posted the meme you see above, it generated lots of heated discussions across multiple forums. So I thought it deserved a more thorough explanation. The main idea was: Employers must perceive that you are interested in the…

Should I thank them for rejecting me?

You were a perfect fit for the job, and you had the best interview you have ever had; yet you still got the rejection letter. Do you send a thank you note? Or let’s say it comes down to you…

The Most Common Job Interview Pothole

There is a very common interview problem I see over and over for great candidates that just flattens their chances of getting an offer like a tire hitting a deep pothole. I suspect this happens in virtually every industry, and…

Job Seekers: It is Do, or Do, so Try!

Are you frustrated with your job search because it seems like nothing is working and you’re ready to give up? Unfortunately that’s not one of your options. When Yoda from Star Wars said, “Do or do not, there is no…

A New Form of Job Search Tracking

What if I told you that the way you track your job search can directly control the length of your job search? It can, and I’ll prove it. Have you ever seen the TV show “American Ninja Warrior”? If not,…

Interview Nerves? Good! How to deal.

I’ve been a public speaker for more than 20 years, and a competitive dancer with my wife for at least 10. Whether I’m in front of 3,000 people, or just 3, I still get nervous. When I was 20 years…

Executive Job Search Strategies That Work!

Searching for a job at the executive level is a VERY different game. During a relatively short interview, executive candidates must prove that they… • Have the skills to do the job • Can be trusted to lead seasoned employees…

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