Candidate Tips
Permanent Recruiting
Employee candidates face extraordinary competition for permanent placement. A recruiting firm, such as Pivotal, should be your first choice for standing out from other candidates — rather than a "last resort." Even if you decide to "go it alone" we encourage you to bookmark this page. Here, we publish the latest tips and information for candidates.
Networking Increases Your Chances of Landing a Job
We’re known for providing articles and content on business management from the HR perspective. But our HR Directors and Recruiters also like to share tips and advice for job seekers. Â Helping them land a job of their dreams. The following post discusses the importance of networking and how networking increases […]
Writing an Effective Job Description
An effective job description provides the foundation for making successful and informed hiring decisions as well as providing the outline for success to prospective employees. It does this by forcing hiring managers to dive into those pertinent details that are required of future hires as well as the big picture […]
To Cover or Not to Cover?
Composing a lot of cover letters during a job search can be very challenging for job seekers. It takes a great deal of energy and time to tailor a letter specifically for every job they apply to. So, it’s not surprising that applicants often ask if they need to include […]
8 Simple Steps to Building an All-Star LinkedIn Profile
In my previous post on how building an online presence benefits job seekers I mentioned a couple of places where recruiters and hiring managers will go to search for someone with specific skills sets. By almost default LinkedIn is the go to resources as it contains the largest userbase of […]
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