What’s the Secret to Being the “Right Candidate for the Job?”

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It can be tough being a candidate, whether it be for a job or even one of those roles of a more public political variety.

Even if you’re seen as a slam dunk pick  (think Hillary Clinton as the “inevitable choice” during the 2008 presidential campaign), things derail. The same is true of job candidates.

A client recently was being wooed by a firm until he thought they’d gone frosty on him; his hunch was that they’d decided he was really a “generalist” in background when they’d figured out they really wanted a “specialist.Read the rest

The Job Market: Quickening Thaw or Just a Hot Flash?

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The job market – something I survey as unconsciously as most people breath air as part of my work  –  seems to be telling us something this first week of the Gregorian new year.

But what it is?

For a large part of the US population the Great Recession is like a parallel universe; heard about, but not part of anyone’s day-to-day existence.… Read the rest