Email signatures: important?

January 6, 2014 | CareerAngels | Application Documents

I’ve received this suggestion, “Perhaps you could consider evaluating email signatures as well? I have several versions and add e.g. social links when I feel they are useful, but I always try not to overload the signature while at the same time always including sufficient contact info, basically the signature should be relevant to the email.”

The most important fragment of the above is “the signature should be relevant to the email”. Read more →

Networking: over-estimated!

December 30, 2013 | CareerAngels | Generating Job Offers

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 →

Job Hunting – a quick reminder

December 16, 2013 | CareerAngels | Free Materials

The end of the year is approaching fast and maybe some of you will make a New Year’s resolution to find a new job.

Job hunting is not as difficult as we tend to imagine, but you need to make some preparations beforehand and remember the most relevant points. Read more →

Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters

December 9, 2013 | 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 “Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters” by Jay Conrad Levinson and David E. Perry. Read more →

Taking shortcuts

November 25, 2013 | CareerAngels | Career Planning

We are constantly asked both prospects, sometimes also by our clients, “Maybe you have a more creative approach to my job hunting?”

Our response is always the same:
– have you improved your CV? Read more →

How (not) to prepare for a first meeting

November 18, 2013 | CareerAngels | Free Materials

Assuming that you have read our previous “Free Materials”, you already know how to prepare a perfect online profile and how to take a good profile picture. You can definitely make a good 1st impression when someone googles you.

The pdf that you can download below is a useful checklist prior to the 1st contact and Read more →

The job hunting process. View from ESC

November 11, 2013 | CareerAngels | Career Planning

We asked Executive Search Consultants what is the most important for them in the job hunting process. These are the answers they gave:

Seamus Pentony, “The key is preparation, communication, attire, punctuality.”
Piotr Kępka, “Some believe in spreading an aura of importance and diva-like behavior as not showing up or canceling last minute. […] Read more →