If you’ve done one or more of the things below, you might have placed yourself on the blacklist (or “graylist”, if it wasn’t that bad) of one or more headhunters and therefore burnt a bridge that you might not have even had yet to start with.

You or your wife, husband, bff, girlfriend, partner sent your application from their email account. Read more →

These past two to three weeks we have repeatedly heard from our prospects:
“There are no available jobs for me. I told you, you need to know somebody to get a job… and I don’t know anybody…”

There are three aspects to consider: Read more →

Networking, in our case meaning contacting people we know in order to find new employment, fails due to the following:
– A lack of grace and tact when approaching others.
– An attitude of “You are my friend. You have to employ me.”
– Hiring an acquaintance for all the wrong reasons: not because they are qualified, but because we e.g. have a feeling of obligation.
– After employing a friend, especially if it is a close one, the new employer-employee relationship may become awkward Read more →

I’d like to quote an extract of an article that I wrote in 2010 to serve as an introduction.

Under pressure to find a job?

When under pressure, we often behave emotionally. We do things, we’d normally not do. And not having a job puts, at least most of us, under tremendous stress. […] If this panic shows through in your job search you’re in trouble. Nobody wants to interview a frustrated and scared candidate. Read more →

If you could work where ever you wanted, where would that be? What are your TOP 20 companies?

Why not contact the decision makers there directly? Sylwia Rzemieniewska, Managing Director, Target Executive Search, warns, “An executive that sends his CV to a lot of companies themselves will not be well perceived. They will definitely make a better impression when going via a headhunter. Read more →

90% of on-going recruitment processes on an executive level lie in the so-called hidden job market which are processes conducted by either the companies themselves or by Executive Search firms.
How do headhunters work? I have two headhunter friends. Isn’t that enough?

The recruitment market is corporate client driven. Here’s a simplified structure:
Step 1: Company X needs to hire a new manager. Read more →

Applying to hundreds of job ads is one of the least effective job hunting methods, but one that must not be left out. Our dear friend Vilfredo Pareto knew that 20% of efforts generate 80% of results. At CareerAngels.eu 80% is not enough. As you will probably want to ensure you receive the BEST available job offer, you should not exclude online ads, though you should spend the least time on it. So far, only 5% of our clients* have accepted a job offer that was generated directly by an online job advertisement. Read more →