By snaring Rob Rose and Jean-Pierre Jauvin — two of the top sales and marketing executives at Cognos Inc. — in the past two weeks, Kanata-based ObjecTime Ltd. is giving the local technology industry a rare glimpse of unbridled ambition. While high-tech companies have been raiding each other for executive talent for years, the campaign …
When traditional job-hunting methods fail, some are turning to the unconventional. As unemployment climbs, jobless Americans are doing more than asking for a job. Some are affixing résumés to their cars. Others are posting job appeals on YouTube. A few are even offering rewards for job referrals. To quote a lyric from the musical “Gypsy,” …
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David Peter Drucker famously said that the insides of an institution are cost centers. Results only happen outside the institution. While leaders are responsible for the performance of an organization or an industry, the real results happen outside. If you search for “Job Hunting” on Amazon.com, the number 1 result is Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters: 400 Unconventional …
The Rogue Recruiter I met David Perry many years ago at a recruiting conference in Toronto. He was soft-spoken, insightful, and kind, so when I learned that his nickname, given to him by The Wall Street Journal, was the Rogue Recruiter – I was surprised. He did not seem rogue, but rather non-complacent to do …
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Greg Collett was a director at Deutsche Bank in New York until June last year, when he succumbed to a long-standing itch to try something else. He had read every book he could find about changing career, saved his money and finally drawn up a list of things he wanted to do. With this in …
Canada’s elite headhunters face a daunting — and key — question: as the sector booms, is it better to be big or nimble? Late last year, Canada’s small community of executive recruiters, the big-game headhunters who poach and staff the nation’s C-suites, was rocked by news of a recruiting coup within its own ranks. Roughly …
You probably know about one of these websites, but you may not know about the other. Neither is a job board. When I spoke with David Perry, author of Guerilla Marketing for Job Hunters and the blog Guerilla Job Hunting, earlier this week about the wacky things people do to get jobs, he shared lots of other job search …
It’s not easy for a company to improve performance and culture with a single, solitary action. Hiring the right executive, however, can be that game changer. So says David Perry, author of “Hiring Greatness: How to Recruit Your Dream Team and Crush the Competition.” Perry, a longtime recruiter of senior executives as managing partner of …
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Flamenco dancers are sexy. So are languid summer nights and first dates with a new crush. But résumés? Not so much. If you want your résumé to get you to first base with a potential employer, it has to push the all the right buttons. You know you should tailor your résumé to the job to which you’re …
What exactly is guerrilla job hunting? To the jaded hacks at @work, it often seems there are as many job-search experts as actual people looking for jobs. While some of their counsel is terrific, it’s rare to find an expert whose advice is novel and tangible. So much career counseling tends to be one or …
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