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Evaluating the Job Offer – What is Missing? [Updated]

February 14, 2018 by Marc Miller 2 Comments

Evaluating the Job Offer When you get a job offer what is the first thing you look at? The Money! If all you are looking at is the money in the job offer, you may end up very disappointed a few months down the road. I wrote about determining what you want in ‘non-financial’ terms […]

How Long Will My Job Search Take? Longer Than You Think! [Updated]

February 7, 2018 by Marc Miller 17 Comments

How Long Will My Job Search Take? I am often asked, “How long will my job search take?” My answer is almost always, “It depends.” I work, primarily, with those in the 2nd half of life—which is code for those over 50 years of age. I tell them that a really short job search is […]

5 Things You Will Never Know About the Hiring Process

February 5, 2018 by Marc Miller 2 Comments

Things You Will Never Know About the Hiring Process The reality is when you are looking for a job at a target company you do not know anything about their hiring process. That is unless you have a contact at the target company with intimate knowledge of how hiring is done. What we usually do is […]

You Did Not Get the Job! Now What? [Updated]

January 24, 2018 by Marc Miller Leave a Comment

You Did Not Get the Job! What Do You Do Now? You just got the rejection notice that said you did not get the job you really wanted. This can be pretty devastating emotionally but you need to maintain an even, emotional disposition. I wrote about this in the post Emotions and the Job Search […]

Is the Resume Still Relevant in the 21st Century? [Updated]

January 17, 2018 by Marc Miller 24 Comments

Resume still relevant? When I graduated from college in the late 1970s the resume was not just relevant but it was the cornerstone of your job search. However, that was the 1970s before the Internet existed. In late 1990s job boards like Monster.com started to appear. You could upload your resume to the job boards […]

What is Your Current Salary? How to Answer! [Updated]

November 29, 2017 by Marc Miller 4 Comments

What is Your Current Salary? I’m sure you have been asked early in the interview process, “What is your current salary?” If it was up to me, I would have everyone respond indignantly—None of your %^%#(& business! However, that does not work in our current work environment. So, how should you answer the question, “What […]

Probing for Pain Points in an Interview [Updated]

November 27, 2017 by Marc Miller 2 Comments

Probing for Pain Points? Probing for pain points should be one of your first steps in an interview. Every business has problems. Your first job is to ask probing questions to uncover those pain points. You do this by asking big open-ended questions to the other party to get them to open up and spill the […]

What I Learned About My Career from Selling a Vintage Fiat

November 8, 2017 by Marc Miller 2 Comments

Selling a Vintage Fiat? When I was a young man in late 1970s, I wanted a convertible. I was also cheap! The first car I bought was a 1972 Triumph Spitfire from a woman I worked with at IBM. It needed a clutch and a throw out bearing. I had just received my engineering degree […]

Employee Referrals – Your Ticket to Your Next Job [Updated]

October 25, 2017 by Marc Miller Leave a Comment

Employee Referrals Did you know that employee referrals have become the most valued tool in hiring? When I wrote this post in 2014, I had just returned from speaking at the Career Thought Leaders Conference in Baltimore. The theme of the conference was “Framing the Future”. A common theme throughout many of the presentations was […]

Find a Problem to Solve. That Will Lead to a Job.

October 18, 2017 by Marc Miller 1 Comment

Find a Problem to Solve? I have had a number of discussions with clients and client prospects in the past year about finding a problem to solve rather than looking for that next job. As many of us reach the end of a career, we start looking for what is next. Our natural instinct is […]