Skills, Skills, Skills

Skills, Skills, Skills

FollowFollowFollowFollowFollowFollow Companies seek specific skills when seeking new hires? No kidding. This is not a new thing. It’s not even an old new thing. It’s always been a thing. How long? Since forever.   So why are there so many articles written about Skills...
Interview Upgrade, Part 1

Interview Upgrade, Part 1

FollowFollowFollowFollowFollowFollow Intro We all need an interview upgrade. In this article we reached out to long time professionals in our recruiting company, CareerNet, to company clients, and to experts we know outside of our company. Interview. Just the word can...
Upgrade Your Interview Skills, Part 2

Upgrade Your Interview Skills, Part 2

FollowFollowFollowFollowFollowFollow Interview Upgrade – Part 2 or, The Top 7 issues our company clients speak to us about.   Important: If you haven’t read Upgrade you Interviews, Part 1  – we’re not nagging you – but you should. Here is the link....
Dress Code for CareerNet Nation

Dress Code for CareerNet Nation

FollowFollowFollowFollowFollowFollow Dress Code We recently read an article in the New York Times by Vanessa Friedman titled “Hey Silicon Valley, Maybe It’s Time to Dress Up, Not Down”.  It’s a good article that considers the costume of high profile CEOs in the tech...
How to make your soft skills shine.

How to make your soft skills shine.

FollowFollowFollowFollowFollowFollow Soft Skills and Your Resume Pretend you are a recruiter or a hiring manager.  You are busy shuffling through papers all day long. You spend at most 30 seconds looking at each resume. You wonder why your hires are lackluster and do...
Telephone Skills, Part 1

Telephone Skills, Part 1

Professional Phone Skills -Part 1 – CareerNet Nation Here at CareerNet Nation, we noticed something. Each generation has its own ways of speaking on the phone. While this maybe culturally interesting, perhaps we will even discuss it in an article, professional phone...