Career Personality: Tireless Kangaroo

April 14, 2014 | Sandra Bichl | Career Planning

KangarooThis is the second post in the cycle “What Career Personality are you?” You can read the first post here.

The category “transatory+” did not surface in the original research. We allowed ourselves to “update” / “extend” the existing model. Why? Analyzing professionals in the last 10-15 years, you will find an increasing number of those who change jobs more often than only every 3-4 years. Some change as often as once a year. They are “consistently inconsistent”. Based on our observation, this rather recent phenomenon has two underlying causes in two different age groups: Read more →

Job Hunting for Foreigners in Poland

April 7, 2014 | Sandra Bichl | International Job Hunting

This post initiates another cycle of blog posts (the other one being “What Career Personality are you?“) that aims at answering the following main question:

What do experienced managers have to do to find a job in a certain country?

Related questions we will answer:
Is there demand for foreign managers? What is expected of them?
How important is it for job hunting managers to know the local language?
What skills or competencies do they have to demonstrate to be successful?
What are specificities of the local markets? Read more →

What Career Personality are you?

March 31, 2014 | Sandra Bichl | Career Planning

This introduction will start a cycle of blog posts dedicated to the various career personalities. The inspiration? A casual conversation discussing patterns of job hunters like “jumpers” and – as the person I was talking to elegantly put it – “wandering butterflies”. That was enough impulse to dig up the theory and compare it to what we, Career Angels, observe every day. We invited Senior Consultants from Devonshire Poland to share their experiences, insights, observations and pieces of advice. Read more →

“Looking for new opportunities…”

March 24, 2014 | Sandra Bichl | Online Presence

This post was inspired by, well, profiles we see every day on sites like LinkedIn. And particularly a post I clicked on last Thursday morning on GoldenLine.pl which led me to a group called “Job seeker’s corner”: 77 pages with on average 15 people per page introducing themselves as job hunters… that makes 1155 professionals looking for a job.

I then checked how many professionals (I did not differentiate experienced managers from junior professionals as the rules are the same) use those phrases: Read more →

Are you on a headhunter’s blacklist?

March 10, 2014 | Sandra Bichl | Generating Job Offers

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 →

CV for non-job-seekers?

February 24, 2014 | CareerAngels | Application Documents

Actually why not? This article:
http://read.bi/1f32o0J
raises some excellent points of why non-job-seekers should update their CVs.

In short:
1. Remind yourself of your skills and achievements
2. Give yourself a confidence boost
3. Understand yourself better
4. Reflect on your key lessons and identify development areas
5. Develop a clearer idea of your strengths
6. See the thread that binds your body of work together
7. Prepare yourself for the worst

We could not agree more! You know where to find us ;)

What color is your parachute? by Richard N. Bolles

January 27, 2014 | CareerAngels | Career Planning

There are some books that are worth reading, because they enable executives to manage their careers consciously. Additionally, some of them provide a unique insight to the world of headhunters.

One of the books we recommend is “What color is your parachute?” by Richard N. Bolles.

Why? Read more →