Q TIPS:
Quick and Quintessential Career & Job Tips
Job-hunting tips from the February 12, 2001 issue of QuintZine.
Despite gloomy forecasts about the economy, executive
hiring is expected to be up this year. About 59 percent of
human-resources execs plan to increase the number of
professionals and executives they hire this year, according
to a survey by Management Recruiters International, Inc.
Only 6 percent of the 3,500 hiring managers surveyed
planned to hire fewer executives and professionals.
A flood-all-employers, mass-market approach generally
doesn't work with job-hunting, cautioned Kate Wendleton
and Dale Dauten in their syndicated career column
recently. While a broad and comprehensive job campaign
would seem to make sense, the opposite is true, say
Wendleton and Dauten. Job-seekers need to target
the employers they approach, narrowing the field
by honing in on:
-industry;
-job function;
-geographic area.
By being targeted and specific about where they want
to work and what they want to do, job-seekers show
employers they are truly interested and not just willing
to do anything, Dauten and Wendleton say.
Facing a layoff? Have a party. "Pink-Slip Parties"
are all the rage among layed-off dot-commers in
New York City, reports Business Week. Gathering
at a Manhattan bar, the out-of-work revelers exchange
career advice and rub elbows with recruiters. To be allowed
into the parties, these headhunters have to bring three jobs
with them.
Despite gloomy forecasts about the economy, executive
hiring is expected to be up this year. About 59 percent of
human-resources execs plan to increase the number of
professionals and executives they hire this year, according
to a survey by Management Recruiters International, Inc.
Only 6 percent of the 3,500 hiring managers surveyed
planned to hire fewer executives and professionals.
