Deciding to work with a legal recruiter is beneficial to your career in many ways. This article summarizes just a few of the things you can expect when working with a recruiter.
An effective legal recruiter’s number one goal is to find you your perfect career match. We know the interview and job search process can be a long and laborious one. The effort of visiting multiple employers, answering questions all while keeping a smile on your face can be tough. Many legal candidates are interested about partnering with a recruiter and what the process includes.
A recruiter will ask you to come down to his or her office to get to know you in person. Everyone chats via phone, text or email but it’s not the same as talking to someone face-to-face. Recruiters will utilize Skype or GoToMeeting for candidates that can’t make it into the office. Think of your meeting with a potential recruiter as you dating service…yes a dating service. You have a very short time-frame to have them see the best qualities of you, and your experiences, that they can then market to their clients. Read More
It’s almost time for what most Calgarians consider to be the most wonderful time of the year. From July 3rd to the 12th Calgary will be saddling up to host over a million visitors to “The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth”– the Calgary Stampede.
To rise above the competition and have a successful job search, you have to do more than hand out resumes and wait for responses that never come. Applying for jobs is more competitive than ever. With the high volume of applications being submitted to job opportunities, the average employer only spends 15 to 30 seconds looking at a resume. Broadly speaking, it’s no surprise. Reviewing the average resume can get treated like checking out the latest tweet. So this is now the world that you, the job seeker in the city are living in — so how do you get your resume to stand out and make a good impression in that tiny time frame?
