“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.

Do you want to always be update and know what’s going on with us? To have access to the latest trends? Data? Methodology? Read this blog post to get access to one of our many lectures, webinars, podcasts, webcasts, training sessions and alike!

This week (#34):
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This summer is extraordinary – it’s “closed” for regular holidays, BUT open for your job search! 53% of monitored European countries have published more job ads in Week 32 than in Week 15! Go ahead and apply!

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Depending on the country, the government reactions to CV-19 (e.g. from no to partial to full lock-down) started at different moments during the first quarter of 2020. Consequently, the job markets (and its players) responded in their own manner and timing.

Given the nature of our work at Career Angels, we are very close to the job market and its decision makers; and everybody we spoke to (almost 500 board members across Europe) had a different opinion and reaction early on, as well as during the 20 weeks that followed. But opinions are just that – personal impressions and interpretations.

We, therefore, felt the need to find a KPI that better reflected how the various job markets reacted. The moment we realized that CV-19 was not a temporary phenomenon, but a temporarily permanent one, we chose to track the number of published job ads on LinkedIn which is an actual indicator of demand on the visible job market. And even though it’s not a perfect KPI, as e.g. some companies decided to move their job ads to cheaper local platforms, it still gives a quite good feel of how confident companies feel about the further market development.
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“It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” by Abraham Lincoln

LMGTFY: Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865), American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th president of the United States (1861–1865). Lincoln led the nation through its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis in the American Civil War. He preserved the Union, abolished slavery and modernized the U.S. economy.

We’ve collected some feedback and impressions from the participants of both editions of our Open Webinars. Here’s what they think of our initiative and how has it helped them so far:

I have made it to the final round with one job […]. Your tips helped because I contacted the CMO directly. They respect my effort so far in terms of applying […]. I don’t know what will happen, but you helped so much!
External Consultant

I got invited for an interview […] and the recruiter asked me for my CV, therefore I sent the one I had prepared based on Open Webinars. During the interview, I was answering questions using the STAR method. Then I got invited for the second interview […]. I do believe that recruiters have a better first impression once reading my tidy, improved CV.
A big thank you to Career Angels for providing such useful tips!
Financial Controller

Thank you for the support! I modified my CV and the screening calls are going much better for me now. I have had a few interviews so far […]. Another useful piece of advice was to get in touch with headhunters. I am slowly building my network.
Professional Development & Learning Lead
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“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” by John Wayne

LMGTFY: Marion Michael Morrison (1907 – 1979), known professionally as John Wayne, was an American actor, director, producer and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient. Among the top box office draws for three decades, famous for his roles in Western films. John Ford’s “Stagecoach” (1939) made Wayne a mainstream star. He starred in 142 motion pictures altogether.