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Don't throw out that resume of that candidate who graduated in 1969, soon you will be depending on a lot of those types to fill your assignments.

Americans who are offered a plum job here in Canada should take a couple of things into account when evaluating the compensation offered.

Often when I interview managers I always ask them about their first management position. Typically I will want to know what were some of the mistakes they made as a rookie manager. I ask this to see if they have an awareness of things they did wrong and how they have improved over the years.

The most common answer I get?

A female representative of the hydro scheme explained to a local paper: "Students from cities and only children cannot endure the hardships incurred in the process of geological exploration. Brain drain is rife," she said, adding that parents of only children hope their offspring can stay close to them and not work too far away.

I have had candidates accept counter offers for an equity position before. Not often but it does happen - typically it hasn't worked out well. And it generally was for the same reasons that accepting a counter offer doesn't work: the real motive for leaving hasn't changed.

It was only a matter of time before this became a reality: the use of video resumes. With the advent of Youtube and increasing broadband access people are making their own video resumes in order to stand out from the pack.

I was talking to a fellow recruiter last night and the subject of outplacement firms came up. As recruiters we often use outplacement firms to help us find candidates.

They are happy to receive position postings from us to help their pool of outplaced candidates find work and of course if we get a good candidate out of it we are pretty happy as well.

Reporters who squawk about CEO comp as if it was the worst thing since Ponzi schemes are at best lazy journalist and at worst grinding an anti-business axe.

And now comes evidence that this continued carping is having an negative effect on publicly traded companies.

Berkeley Data Systems of Utah wanted to get the know the local programming and engineering community a little better. After all you cant recruit local talent if you don't know them.

Most of you who read my blog will know that I don't think much of cover letters. I think even less of those that appear as an attachment in an email. Well, the best part is I don't have to even open them.

How to tell if an advice website really is doling out good advice? See what kind of advice it gives in an area you have some experience in.

I don't understand why anyone would be surprised by a question like this and not prepare for it. You know how all the interview books tell you to prepare for the interview? Well this is preparing for the interview dumbass: Sitting down the night before and trying to anticipate questions like this and how to answer them.

If this man's resume came across your desk for a senior role; say a position on the board would you give it a second look? Interview him? Throw it away?

It goes without saying that this type of nonsense wreaks havoc on names sourcers.

Seriously it appears that dressing sexily at work can hurt a woman's chances of advancing in her career? Why? Because people will not take her seriously and will perceive her as being less intelligent. That apparently is the finding of a recent study reported in Fortune Magazine:

Forbes has an article up on how to tell if someone is lying. This could be highly useful in interviews right?

I had first hand encounters with a lot of recruiting firms when I was retained by a Fortune 500 client to manage all of their external recruiting. For some reason or other the switchboard would forward all the calls from agencies to me - which was kind of funny considering I was really competing with them.

FÁS held a two-day job exhibition in New York this month, offering posts in the construction, IT and financial sectors, and information on work permits and visas, taxes, health-care, real estate and education. Mr. Craig says he couldn't accommodate the number of associations and government organizations that wanted to be part of the event. "Next time, we may have to rent Madison Square Garden," he jokes.

This article at Jobseeker Advice outlines 20 things that bug recruiters the most on your resume. This is something that every job seeker should read because if you are doing one or more of these things : you are pissing us off.

Remember how they used to scare you with talk about things going onto your permanent record? Well certain youtube users are creating permanent records of their own and guess what it ain't pretty

Gone are the days of joining a company after college and staying with it for a promotion-filled 40-year career. Today, more and more companies are seeking talent from outside their own pools, and tenure at one organization is rare.

Ok, we'll forgive him for that opening sentence which was sooo 1988. I mean is there anyone out there who thinks that a 40 year stint at one company is likely these days?

One expert, who did not wish to be named for the story, says: "If this is done correctly your 'problem employee' will find a job and quit before you take action."

Some people claim that companies "front load" the employee with unreasonable work and unfair "targets" that cannot be achieved so the employee can only fail.

Bigshot search firms have always wanted to get at this market because there are more positions available than at the higher end (lets face it there are only so many CEO searches to go around).

But none of them want to invest the time in conducting a full search for a fee that is much lower than you would get for landing a 300k+ executive.

Larry and his ilk are part of a new wave of "anti poaching" strategies that companies are employing in order to prevent employee turnover.

Methods can be as simple as having receptionists block calls from recruiters to having staff report any recruiting activities that they are subject to.