“You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.” by Oprah Winfrey

LMGTFY: Oprah Winfrey (born 1954), American TV personality and philanthropist. Best known for her talk show “The Oprah Winfrey Show”, which was one of the highest-rated television programs of its kind in history. She became North America’s first black multi-billionaire.

“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” by Thomas Jefferson

LMGTFY: Thomas Jefferson (1743 – 1826), American statesman, diplomat, lawyer and Founding Father. Served as the 3rd president of the United States. The principal author of the Declaration of Independence. Was a proponent of democracy and individual rights, motivating American colonists to break from the Kingdom of Great Britain and form a new nation.

“CVs are one of the worst tools to select candidates for recruitment processes”. This might be a controversial thing to say – especially when it comes from a company that is paid to do exactly that: write CVs.

Why? Because CVs are:
• written by people who have never been taught, how to do that correctly
• often written in haste
• almost never complete
• full of mistakes: typos, formatting, verbose content, lack of results or tangible successes

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“I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.” by Florence Nightingale

LMGTFY: Florence Nightingale (1820 – 1910), English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. Became an icon of Victorian culture, especially in the persona of “The Lady with the Lamp” making rounds of wounded soldiers at night. Wrote tracts in simple English concerning the spread of medical knowledge.

COVID-19 showed us all that we can never take anything for granted – including, or especially, our jobs. The job market had already been competitive before. Nowadays, you need to put even more (strategic) effort into your job search process to be successful.

That’s why we’ve decided to share our know-how & come up with the Free Job Search Webinars initiative. From April to May 2020 we conducted (and recorded!) 16 webinars with almost 1000 participants from all around the world who have spontaneously expressed that they are “the best they’ve seen currently being offered for professionals / managers / executives looking for a job or trying to stay in control of their careers”.

We’ve selected the best 10 opinions / reasons for why it’s worth watching them and we share them below:

1. You can see yourself from the recruiter’s point of view.
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“Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.” by Franklin Delano Roosevelt

LMGTFY: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 – 1945), American politician who served as the 32nd president of the U.S. He became a central figure in world events during the 1st half of the 20th century – the Great Depression, World War II. Rated as one of the 3 greatest U.S. presidents, along with Washington and Lincoln.

“My success is based on persistence, not luck.” by Estée Lauder

LMGTFY: Estée Lauder (July 1, 1908 – April 24, 2004), American businesswoman. She founded, together with her husband Joseph Lauder, her eponymous cosmetics company. Lauder was the only woman on Time magazine‘s 1998 list of the 20 most influential business geniuses of the 20th century.

Are headhunters a mystery to you? Or you are quite familiar with the topic, but you feel like you need some additional tips to be more effective in that channel?

We have prepared 18 tips on how to work with headhunters successfully when you are a candidate. Here’s a quick sneak peek at it and why it’s worth to watch the whole presentation:

• Who are headhunters really and what is their role? Spoiler: they are not a necessary evil and you can actually benefit from building a relationship with them.
• How to contact them effectively & actively (but not hyperactively – nobody wants to be perceived as too pushy), incl. know-how on screening calls and follow–up emails.
• Why is online presence very important when you want to be taken into consideration as a potential candidate by a headhunter?
• How to get yourself an interview & prepare well for it, incl. your CV, interviewing skills, negotiating your salary and the way to present yourself (if you’re thinking about pretending to be somebody else than you actually are: don’t. A lie has no legs)

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In Europe, we are slowly heading towards the end of summer which is an unusual one: it’s “closed” for regular holidays, BUT open for your job search! 47% of monitored European countries have published more job ads in Week 33 than in Week 15! Go ahead and apply!

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“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” by Theodore Roosevelt

LMGTFY: Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (1858 – 1919), American politician, who served as the 26th president of the United States and 25th vice president. Roosevelt emerged as a leader of the Republican Party and became a driving force for the anti-trust policy in the early 20th century. His face is depicted on Mount Rushmore alongside Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln.