Your Answering Machine

They spoke individually."

"Hi! This is Karen."

"This is Corky," said their daughter.

"This is Mike," said their son.

"And this is Glenn," said their father.

Together they said, "We're the xxxxxxxxxxx family (I'll leave out their name to avoid embarrassing them). We're not home right now so leave your name and number and we'll call you back. BYE!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Your personal life is yours and I want you to enjoy it.

Your professional life is another thing.

A potential employer might call and leave a message for Glenn or Karen to schedule a time to speak.

Quite a first impression, huh?

Or, take a look at your email address and what it says: cutechick@deli.com or radicaldude@incompetentcode.com. In some industries, these addresses work extremely well.

In others, go to Gmail or Yahoo and open a new account with something simple and have the emails automatically forward to your real address. By doing this, you can cut off contact from spammers and recruiters by canceling your account when your search is over . . . or just keep the account open for job hunting purposes.

Jeff Altman
The Big Game Hunter
Concepts in Staffing
jeffaltman@cisny.com

© 2007 all rights reserved.

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter, is Managing Director with Concepts in Staffing, a New York search firm, He has successfully assisted many corporations identify management leaders and staff in technology, accounting, finance, sales, marketing and other disciplines since 1971. He is a practicing psychotherapist and is a retired certified leader of the ManKind Project, a not for profit organization that assists men with life issues.

To receive a daily digest of positions emailed to you, search job openings, use his free job lead search engine, Job Search Universe. to subscribe Jeff’s free job search ezines, Head Hunt Your Next Job and/or Natural Selection (his free recruiting ezine), or to find out about his VIP Personal Search Agent service, go to http://www.jeffaltman.com.

If you would like Jeff and his firm to assist you with hiring staff or locating consultants, or if you would like help with a strategic job change, send an email to him at thebiggamehunter@cisny.com (If you’re looking for a new position, include your resume).

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A Cute Way to Target Your Job Searches

When you do searches on some of the meta search sites like Job Search Universe, or Indeed (available at www.jeffaltman.com), have you ever tried entering a zip code into the search in order to see if you can actually find something close to home?

Another little technique on Google (you knew you could use Google for job leads, didn't you?As a matter of fact, Job Search Universe is a custom Google search engine that works just as Google would) is to add your search criteria and phrases like "Email your resume your resume" or submit resume to" in order to avoid some of gthe articles and other extraneous information."

Jeff Altman
The Big Game Hunter
Concepts in Staffing
jeffaltman@cisny.com

© 2007 all rights reserved.

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter, is Managing Director with Concepts in Staffing, a New York search firm, He has successfully assisted many corporations identify management leaders and staff in technology, accounting, finance, sales, marketing and other disciplines since 1971. He is a practicing psychotherapist and is a retired certified leader of the ManKind Project, a not for profit organization that assists men with life issues.

To receive a daily digest of positions emailed to you, search job openings, use his free job lead search engine, Job Search Universe. to subscribe Jeff’s free job search ezines, Head Hunt Your Next Job and/or Natural Selection (his free recruiting ezine), or to find out about his VIP Personal Search Agent service, go to http://www.jeffaltman.com.

If you would like Jeff and his firm to assist you with hiring staff or locating consultants, or if you would like help with a strategic job change, send an email to him at thebiggamehunter@cisny.com

(If you’re looking for a new position, include your resume).

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Your Search Can End With Your Last Exit Interview

Someone I commute with received a "heads up" from her boss that her position might be eliminated as part of a consolidation caused her company being bought. A person with almost 30 years of experience, she was a classic target of downsizing and at risk of a long job search.

Except for one thing.

She remembered that at the exit interview from her previous job of almost 25 years, the Chairman of the bank she worked for before taking this job told her that if she wanted to return to contact his office.

So, that became her first call--to the Chairman's office.

Within a week, she had four interviews with the bank, 2 very good ones that offered her terrific visibility and a new job. One of the perks in the new job was the ability to add to her pension.

At the HR interview, she was told by the recruiter representing the bank that in his years with them, he had never seen an exit interview report with such glowing comments in it including the word "YES!" written twice next to the checkoff box indicating whether the person should be eligible for re-hire.

Her search began at her former employer. Yours can too if you treat the exit interview as something more than a waste of time. You don't have to accept their attempt to extend a counteroffer (nor should you in my opinion).

However, if you have built strong relationships and do NOTHING to burn bridges, you might wind up with a terrific package like my friend did.

Jeff Altman
The Big Game Hunter
Concepts in Staffing
jeffaltman@cisny.com

© 2007 all rights reserved.

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter, is Managing Director with Concepts in Staffing, a New York search firm, He has successfully assisted many corporations identify management leaders and staff in technology, accounting, finance, sales, marketing and other disciplines since 1971. He is a practicing psychotherapist and is a retired certified leader of the ManKind Project, a not for profit organization that assists men with life issues.

To receive a daily digest of positions emailed to you, search job openings, use his free job lead search engine, Job Search Universe. to subscribe Jeff’s free job search ezines, Head Hunt Your Next Job and/or Natural Selection (his free recruiting ezine), or to find out about his VIP Personal Search Agent service, go to http://www.jeffaltman.com.

If you would like Jeff and his firm to assist you with hiring staff or locating consultants, or if you would like help with a strategic job change, send an email to him at thebiggamehunter@cisny.com (If you’re looking for a new position, include your resume).

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