We Ask, the Headhunter Answers
For your 2015 career ambitions, we bring to you exclusive insights from headhunters. If you are looking for a new management position, you should read the headhunter answers and insights in more detail.
For your 2015 career ambitions, we bring to you exclusive insights from headhunters. If you are looking for a new management position, you should read the headhunter answers and insights in more detail.
Just recently, we shared views on what to look for as CIO when changing jobs and presented exclusive tips on that theme by headhunters.
Have you ever wondered what makes some people so successful in an interview for a job? Did they just luck out or was it some innate characteristic that made them irresistible. Or have these people just acquired some techniques that they use cleverly in an interview? At the beginning of a new year, we have enlisted 7 tips for ensuring you have a successful interview!
We have all been through interviews that sometimes take the wind out of all the work experience that we may have gathered over our work-lives. We have also had interviews that also seemed so classical that they were smooth as snow. Over the years each hiring manager develops his or her own style. Today we present the key interviewing styles of headhunters and hiring managers. Always helps to know what you’re in for before you make a big move towards that key management position.
Marketing is no longer just a sales strategy which is limited to products. Also the marketing of oneself (if you want to remain attractive for the labor market) or self-marketing in your application is increasingly important in today’s world.
Not for the first time are we talking about the subject of interviews for a post in our Experteer magazine. As the key to your future, the next interview for management jobs is not something you can avoid dealing with. Sure, if you have the picked out the appropriate suit or the perfect dress, reached in time for the interview and met your interview partner with the head held high and firmly shook hands, that’s not so bad for a start. But that is only half the battle.
The IT-Department in today’s world is the strategic brain of a company. The culmination of a career in the IT field is the position of the CIO – Chief Information Officer. Most companies with anything to do with technology directly or indirectly tend to have CIOs at management levels. A CIO must not only have the technical knowledge but also have a keen understanding of the business area to be fit for the role.
There are plenty of them and each is a challenge in itself: job application questions. Especially the ones that increase our heart rate and where we want to flee the room. If it calms you: This is perfectly normal. Recruiters often use questions to see how you can deal with tricky situations. And apart from the tricky questions, it is equally important to consider possible answers to classic interview questions before you go strutting to meet a headhunter or an executive recruiter.
Recruiting Advice No Headhunter Ever Tells You
Most recently, I read through a great piece by David Rogier on Medium about the best recruiting advice he ever got. As any self-respecting ambitious professional wanting to get a great position at a dream company, David talks through his struggle to get himself a position in a ‘start-up’ and the advice he got from Tristan Walker.
In our regular interviews with headhunters and executive recruiters, we have already answered a variety of questions: How do headhunters define a top manager? How can you be present on a headhunter’s radar? What are they looking for in candidate CVs? Today we’d like to present exclusive insights from Roland Netter, CEO and Managing Partner of GKM-recruitment AG. We’ve asked him some candidate-centric questions for you, including how what questions should a candidate ask a headhunter. Read further to get these exclusive insights…