5 Reasons Santa Claus Is A Better Manager Than You
Ho, ho, ho – Christmas is near and this special year will end soon. Maybe, it brought you as a manager and leader to your limits. How did you do after all? What is the one leadership skill you evolved with last year, what [...]
How To Answer Stupid Interview Questions – And What They Really Mean
In my career as a headhunter, I have conducted approx 2,500 job interviews myself and assisted to hundreds my clients led with my candidates. Since 2001, I have learned a lot from my clients on clever questioning that brings [...]
Salary Negotiation: 33 Things To Negotiate Other Than Money
Congratulations! You have mastered the job interviews, left all your competitors behind and enter the final phase of your job search phase: the salary negotiation. What can you expect? A typical salary negotiation is unfortunately very often minimal to inexistent: you will be asked your expectations - and then, an offer is made. A real negotiation, however, [...]
Three Reasons To Accept A Counter Offer
Counter offer! A candidate who has accepted a new job is "sold back" by his employer. The nightmare of the recruiter! What has happened until we got here? We have done a full search and talked to 150 candidates, sometimes more to identify those [...]
How To Quit Your Job With Style
You have taken the decision to quit, to leave your current employer. This means that you have lost the faith to change your job for the better. Here are 5 tips on how to quit your job with style, ensure a clean departure that does [...]
10 Bullet Proof Tips On Career Management From James Bond 007
Most techniques you need to survive in intelligence and counter espionnage will not help you to get a promotion or a pay rise when you have a white collar job. But when we look closer at it, it turns out some of James Bond’s [...]