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Award-winning executive resume writer Laura Smith-Proulx, CCMC, CPRW, CIC of An Expert Resume has earned a 98% success rate landing top jobs at Fortune-ranked corporations for leadership professionals. The author of How to Get Hired Faster, she is a frequent media source, blogger, ... Read More

The dictionary defines the word integration as “the act of combining or adding parts to make a unified whole.”  For those of us in the field of recruiting, the proliferation of channels by which we now source candidates makes integration both especially difficult and especially ... Read More

In 2005, General David Petraeus was an executive in transition.  Having fallen out of favor with the civilian leadership in the Department of Defense, he was reassigned to lead the Army’s mid level leadership school in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.  For a combat commander, that wasn’t a ... Read More

Think about it this way.  A person you’ve never met—a connection through a friend of a follower—emails you out of the blue to request that you send a copy of their resume to your HR Department.  They explain that they are applying for a job with your employer and would like some ... Read More

The MasterCard Money Matters National Education Day will take place September 9. The day will serve as a chance for payroll professionals across the country to promote financial literacy. Any payroll professionals can volunteer to teach local high school students the ins and outs of their paychecks, ... Read More

One of the greatest recruiting challenges I continue to hear from employers, is figuring out a way to better attract the right candidates while filtering out those who are not a good fit. With so many candidates out there, how do you help them correctly decide whether or not they are right for your ... Read More

I used to have a band director that doubled as a sales coach. Every year he had to mobilize 40 to 60 junior high students into candy bar selling experts and every year he began the same way. Pretending his podium was the front porch of a neighbor’s – he would feign a weak knock – and when the ... Read More