Eight Things Job-Seekers Are Sick Of Hearing. Have you experienced this?

A lot of these things in the article are simply a way for recruiters to allow you the opportunity to expand on your resume and show your salesmanship. I tell everyone that the most important thing you can learn to get yourself hired is salesmanship, because really, you are the product you are trying to sell to employers. You have to know your value, know what you want, and clearly sell that to the employer no different than you would a piece of equipment. If you are trying to sell a $100 piece of equipment to someone for $200 you are not likely to make a sale. If you are underselling it, it is going to be viewed as 'cheap' or 'having something wrong with it' and you are likely to have a hard time making the sale. If you walk into an interview confident that you are selling your skills, experience, talent, etc at exactly what it is worth and you sell that to the employer you will be hired. Exemplify in the interview how the experience you have will make the companies production more efficient (why you, not them), be clear and up front about what YOU want out of the job, and find out what THEY want out of you so there are no misunderstandings over expectations.

There are tons of problems with today's recruiting process that will jump up and destroy HR when the economy gets good enough for the job seeker to have the upper hand again.

And HR is arrogant in the way they do things and respond to criticism. I've done it on LinkedIn. I went to a HR forum and told them that they have an adversarial relationship with the job seeker and people get jobs in spite of and around them rather than with their help. They didn't like my comments and I don't really care.

The resume software era has given companies candidates who can write to fool the system and not who can actually do the job. LinkedIn gives real quality job seekers the ability to go around the morass of HR and go right to someone who can get your name in front of the hiring manager. It's HR's nightmare. They become a lot less relevant.

I would love to see more articles about how companies are shooting themselves in the foot when it comes to hiring competent people.

I'm a recruiter myself and I get to the point. You either know what you're talking about or you don't. show me confidence and also explain your answers. We don't know you, all we know is what you have on paper.

I love to help everyone, but especially our veterans. I know what is like to not have a job and have a family to feed. please google interview techniques and be able to elaborate on what it is that you do.

Carlos