Expert Job-Search Answers and Advice from Career Experts

Quintessential Careers Career Masterminds:
Expert Job-Search Answers and Advice from Career Experts

A Quintessential Careers Special 15th Anniversary Report

Top career and job-search experts -- our 15 Career Masterminds -- offer insight and advice to common job-seeker job-search questions.

Compiled by Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.

Finding a job is a stressful and time-consuming experience for most job-seekers. Because most folks do not practice job-hunting skills daily nor keep tabs on current job and employment trends, we asked our visitors to provide the job-hunting questions that are most on your minds as you set about looking for a new job.

What follows are the most commonly asked questions for our career experts.

The Career and Job-Search Questions

After soliciting questions from hundreds of job-seekers, we formulated these seven questions for our Career Masterminds:

What are the most common strategic mistakes you see on job-seeker resumes? Read the responses.
How does a person continually network and job search even when employed with a demanding, full-time job? Read the responses.
To what extent is job-hopping still an issue that job-seekers need to address? Read the responses.
How does the job-hunting and interview process change as you move up from lower level positions to upper management? Read the responses.
What's the best advice for a baby boomer who is thinking of changing careers? Read the responses.
What's the best advice for a college senior or recent grad that has absolutely no clue what kind of job s/he wants? Read the responses.
Why do you think so many job-seekers seem not to have caught on to the paradigm shift of reactive job-hunting (tracking down job leads, job boards) to proactive job-hunting (career branding, networking, social media)? Read the responses.

Best Job-Search Tip

We also solicited the one, best piece of advice -- the critical nugget of information -- that our experts think every job-seeker needs to know, understand, and practice to get a job. Here's what they said: Expert Job-Hunting Tips.

Our 15 Quintessential Careers Career Masterminds

Donald Asher of Asher Associates
Richard Nelson Bolles of JobHuntersBible.com
Jack Chapman of Lucrative Careers, Inc.
Deb Dib of Executive Power Brand
Louise Fletcher of Blue Sky Resumes
Maureen Crawford Hentz
Tory Johnson of Women for Hire
J.T. O'Donnell of CAREEREALISM
Lindsey Pollak
Teena Rose of Resume to Referral
Steven Rothberg of CollegeRecruiter.com
Miriam Salpeter of Keppie Careers
Eric Shannon of LatPro, Inc.
Wendy Terwelp of Opportunity Knocks
Susan Whitcomb of The Academies

Find more information about each of our 15 Quintessential Careers Career Masterminds.

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