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Do you believe Team Building is the best way how to set up a team? I do not believe to this theory. I have the idea, that Team Building can very easily set a lot of issues among the participant of the Team Building activities.

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You can see a lot of web advertisement about the best job resume structure and look-and-feel, but honestly - nothing like the best structure of the job resume exists. You can just have a better resume than the other candidates. The job resume, which comfortably meets the requirements of the HR Recruiter.

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Many people believe they are the best candidates for the position of the HR Business Partner. But many times they do not understand the real job content of the real HR Business Partner. HR Business Partner is not the employee to drink coffee with the Business Leaders to make them feel good. Continue reading →

The job interview with the HR Recruiter is more important than the job candidates believe. The HR Recruiter is the person who makes the first impression of the hiring manager. The HR Recruiter asks those “stupid HR questions”, but he/she builds the personality oriented picture of you and the hiring manager is usually strongly influenced by the HR Recruiter’s advices and notices.

It is important to have several things in mind when being interviewed by the HR Recruiter. You can believe you are the best person in the world when you come to the job interview. But you had a chance to go through several job interviews. But the HR Recruiter conducted from several hundreds to several thousands job interviews. You did not meet all the situations the HR Recruiter did. The HR Recruiter can quickly compare your answers with the answers of other candidates. Even in the history – he/she has a memory.

The job candidates usually make the same mistakes when being interviewed by the HR Recruiter:

1. I just need you to send me to the hiring manager
2. You do not understand my skills
3. You know nothing about the company
4. I am smarter than you
5. I do not have to listen to you

“I just need you to send to the hiring manager” is the most common mistake of job candidates facing HR Recruiter. The HR Recruiter is the gate keeper for the hiring manager and he/she decided about the candidates to be allowed to meet with the hiring managers. Showing to the HR Recruiter the only need is to see the hiring manager is not a good technique. You can be rejected really quickly.

“You do not understand my skills” is a very dangerous mistake. The HR Recruiter exactly knows what skills and competencies are needed for the job position. And many times – the HR Recruiter can compare you against a winning candidate from the past. Be very careful about this.

“You know nothing about the company” is a mistake, when you have no questions about the company and you just show to the HR Recruiter your opinion about his/her knowledge of the organization. It can happen from time to time that you have no questions for the HR Recruiter.

“I am smarter than you” is again a dangerous mistake during the interview with the HR Recruiter. You can be an expert in your area, but the HR Recruiter is the expert in the area of selection processes including job interviews. You cannot tell to the HR Recruiter your area of expertise is so complicated to explain and it is very hard to others to understand to it. HR Recruiters are very smart and they generally understand to the whole organization.

“I do not have to listen to you” is more common than you expect. When the HR Recruiter likes you, he/she can provide you with some advices for the next round job interview. But you have to listen to the HR Recruiter. Sometimes, the job candidates want to finish the job interview as soon as possible.

Do not forget that your job interview with the HR Recruiter is a very important part of the whole selection process. Do not ignore them.

Lately a friend of mine asked me about the winning job resume. What does the resume make a winning one when I have to decide about “GO/NO GO”. It is really interesting question and I tried to formulate pretty general answer for him.

I formulated my own answer about the winning job resume, which must consist of just 4 simple components:

1. Simplicity – I do not like complicated stuff. In moment, when I need to read job resumes selecting the right candidate, the simple resumes are given a priority. Not because of just their simplicity, but the author of a simple job resume knows to express himself/herself quickly and simply.
2. Clean resume is the winning one – the resume with a clean layout, which shows non-complicated person behind it. To make a really clean resume takes time and I know it. I appreciate clean design and it helps to read the job resume quickly. And no HR employee has time to make a deep research.
3. Structured resume is the winning resume. No one likes to search for information. The people tend to search for information at places they know. And each resume should follow the same structure. Or – the structure must be visible immediately. When composing your own winning job resume you have to prepare its structure first.
4. Potential to future growth – the winning job resume shows a potential of a candidate for a future growth. The winning resume shows the skills and it shows, which skills are still missing and the HR Recruiter must have something to offer. This is simple to say, but it is very hard to write into the job resume. Without a potential to growth – the HR Recruiter can easily reject the candidate as “overqualified”.

These are mine four main components in the winning job resume. Which are yours?

Many times the same story. The people get disappointed with every rejection letter they receive in their mailbox. Or no response from the company.

But you have to be realistic. When you read your own resume, would you hire yourself. That is the basic question. Many people do not read their resume, when they finish it.

HR Recruiters are very busy people. But they have really well trained eyes and they see any mistake at the first sight. You do not have to mention any grammar mistake or misspelling, but they definitely will notice it.

In case, when they receive a lot of resume for a job vacancy, they will tend to select resumes, which are correct as no one wants to send documents with the mistake to the selection process. As the hiring manager can notice the mistake as well.

The advice is really simple. Make proofreading before sending your resume to the company. It does not take much time from you, but it can help you a lot. You can jump over other candidates with mistakes in their resumes.

Ask the people around you about their own opinion about their own dream job. The more people you will ask, the more opinions about the dream job you will receive. But there is always a chance to provide people with the more generalized conclusions.

The people will generally show their own emotions and personal preferences when describing their dream job. And you will be quite surprised - they will not generally speak about the job position or job content. They will describe their own benefits from the dream job in their mind.

This is really very important for HR Professionals to recognize. When asking your own staff about the dream job, you will receive the preferences of your employees and you can set your HR Processes and benefit portfolio to meet their needs.

And what do the people prefer in their dream job generally?

1. Money
2. Work Life Balance
3. Challenge
4. Development Opportunities
5. Friendliness

Think about your own dream job. Would you fit into these 5 categories? One of them?

The attractive resume is a key to get a dream job. But, when you decide to type your attractive resume, it is not that easy task as it can look in the beginning.

The resume is usually a single page of the paper, but with a very important content and all the words must be selected very carefully.

When you want to type the excellent resume, you must be sure about the kind of the position you want to get. In case, you do not have a clear view about your work future, you have no chance to write the excellent resume. It works this way - the job done without clearly defined goals brings no results.

Before typing the resume, the following things must be clarified:

1. you must collect information about your previous experience
2. you have to find everything learned during your previous positions
3. You have to identify key moment during your previous career. This is very important as every HR Recruiter will be very interested in those career path changes and it has to be pointed out clearly and you have to provide explanation at some really key moments.
4. Select your skills gained from your previous positions and make a list of competencies, which were used during your previous experience, you will definitely need to mention them.

When you are finished with this preparation, just sit back and relax. You have to think about your next dream job and then - start typing your attractive resume.

Many people believe that building and developing their own career will help them to make their life happier and more successful. But job and career is not the whole life.

A friend of mine was really a heavily focused on developing his career. He was hardworking, making a lot of presentations, every single opportunity to make another career step was not missed.

After several years - he was a manager with a huge responsibility and the company was really recognizing him as one of the key sources of the success. His salary was enormous, but he was not lucky - till one moment.

He got in love and his partner made to do a simple thing - to change his own view of life. The career was not the most important thing. The most important thing was the ability to enjoy common values and their life together.

Do you work on your career and you are not happy? Are you sure you do not want to change your personal values and follow them?