Abigail Carlos was bracing for a busy holiday season as her employer, Warner Bros. Discovery, was gearing up to launch a suite of new shows. A media strategist, Carlos had to assign complex tasks to her team members, and she needed a hand. So she asked ChatGPT and Perplexity to organize it all in …
Databases of the best candidates Recruitment Agencies have huge databases of candidates for each role in the industries they specialize. Many of these candidates are ones with whom they’ve cultivated relationships over time. Once they have a new role in their hands, they can reach out to those top …
Lots of people hit me up for these on the regular, so I thought it would be worth sharing the advice I have been giving them: Take your full address off. City and state are fine. Would you believe some employers may use this demographic information against you, even checking Zillow for home price …
I hate it, but ageism does very much exist in hiring today, especially in startups. A few things I recommend for the resume: Do not put your graduation date on your resume. It is not relevant to whether you are qualified for the job, and the employer cannot legally ask this until background check …
I was at a hotel bar, when two guys struck up a conversation with me: the typical, “Where are you from and what do you do?” It turned out they sold commercial insurance. They in fact had insured this very building, the W hotel. They’ve insured billions of dollars of property across the state. I …
Shelley (not her real name of course) was a walking rain cloud. If you came into the office feeling great, she had a talent for taking that down a notch. Or 10. She once randomly asked me if I’d been punched in the face, because for some reason she thought I looked like I had. She cared so much …
Some of the best people for the job have the worst resumes. They’re likely to have been steadily employed, for long stretches of time, and have been sought out by employers, and thus may never had to learn resume writing skills. One of my jobs as a recruiter is to be honest and coach those …
Here’s a bit of career fair advice, from the other side of the table. When to go – As soon as possible! The most prepared students start going to job fairs as freshmen. Establish relationships with recruiters, ask what classes you should take to be a good fit for their company in the future, etc. …
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