Can your Social Media Activity Impact your Ability to get a Job? We’ve visited this subject in the past but it is so important, it warrants a second look. The number of social media products we have access to seems to grow every year. There have never been so many ways to have your voice [...]
Possible Social Media Impacts to your Job Search With all the social media tools available today, people have never been more empowered to make their voices heard. Something important just happened? Share it on Facebook! Have a novel thought or clever insight? Tweet it! And why not? We can meet new people and have some [...]
Providing Your Two Weeks' Notice with Professionalism Resign with Grace: Congratulations! You’ve just landed that new career opportunity you’ve been seeking. Things are looking up; your career is moving forward. You’re excited about the new challenge. You’ll be taking on additional responsibilities with the opportunity to learn new and interesting things. All you have to [...]
Interviewing is the time to Sell your Skills and Experience Our Eagles won the Super Bowl! Best news to hit Philadelphia in quite a while! It was also great listening to the players and coaches share the fun they had all year in their quest to bring the Lombardi Trophy to the City of Brotherly [...]
Job Market Indicators Early numbers for 2018 on the U.S. economy and jobs are in and they are eye popping. According to a recent CNBC article, unemployment stands at 4.1%, with 200,000 new jobs being created in January. Perhaps even more impressive is the 2.9% gain in wages. What does all this mean if you [...]
Starting the New Year with New Goals So I’m thinking about a career resolution roadmap for self-improvement. For me, finding things to improve is not too difficult. On the other hand, finding things that I actually really want to change, to the point of making and keeping a commitment, is a much greater challenge. Compounding [...]
Exploring the Possibilities of a Good LinkedIn Profile Welcome to a New Year! The stock market is exploring new positive territory, we have a new tax code designed to increase the domestic activities of corporate America by encouraging the repatriation of offshore earnings, and a regulatory climate that is friendly to a growing economy. Regardless [...]
Three Tips for your next Phone Interview Time is precious. Hiring managers and HR screeners are stretched and stressed. They need to hire but have no time or too many open requirements to fill. As a result, it is now very common to have your first interview on the phone. Sometimes companies will even elect [...]
Hiring Process: Getting Bogged Down in Internal Red Tape Is it time for a new hiring approach? According to Torsten Slok, Chief Economist of Deutsche Bank, it’s never taken this long to find a worker in America. At 31 days average time to fill, jobs now remain open longer than any time in the past. [...]
Engineering Job Trends are on the Up Kane Partners is a Philadelphia based technical recruitment firm with clients across the United States. Assignments coming in for our engineering practice have picked up significantly since the new year and seem to be building momentum, even as we enter the normally slower summer months. It is too [...]
