It’s a New Year and a new decade. The time is ripe for those new year resolutions and self-reflection on what you want to achieve this year professionally. Unfortunately, this past holiday season has been dampened with a plethora of announcements from both technical professionals and news outlets that layoffs are happening with more to

Seeing an online post last week, “Christmas doesn’t start until after Halloween” made me chuckle since many stores are starting to stock holiday decorations/lighting or they are certainly staged up for display immediately following Halloween We unfailingly hear that companies/managers slow the interviewing/hiring process due to holiday vacations and parties and that it’s best for

“I’m not looking right now.” “I just started a new job.” “I’m not interested at this time.” These are common responses that recruiters hear when attempting to connect with potential candidates. They reveal a lack of understanding of the real benefits of working with professional recruiters for the advancement of their careers. There are two

Have you given any thought to your next chapter? Nearly four decades ago when I graduated from college, did I see myself as a professional recruiter? I knew I wanted to make the world a better place by making a difference in other people’s lives. My story, like so many others, has resulted in several chapters to balance

You’ve passed the traditional interview and your skills and experience are a match!  What’s next? For many companies the follow up interview is the BEHAVIORAL interview. Is it possible to prepare for these situational questions? YES! Possible and critical! Prospective employers use the behavioral interview to determine your future behavior based on how you handled past experiences.  What are they looking

As we at OneSource Professional Search celebrate our 16th Anniversary this month, we are feeling extremely grateful and appreciative of our candidates and clients that have put their trust in us and joined us on this journey! Our team expends much effort to build and foster relationships that have provided us with such a strong foundation for

At times, I find that hiring managers delay initiating a search to hire an experienced professional, even though the hire is critical to the company’s future growth. The following is an e-mail reply to a hiring manager who procrastinated on an important staff addition: “Yes, Roger, that is the way life rolls when you have

As a recruiter, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had conversations with both hiring managers and prospective candidates who have voiced their frustrations with being unable to effectively execute job searches successfully in a short time frame. Candidates express that they apply to vague job postings (usually half a page in length) and

With the recent bombing of Saudi Arabia’s major oil processing center in Abquaiq this week, crude oil price futures quickly jumped 20% on Monday, and subsequently backed down today 5 %. Market response was attributed to Saudi announcements that production taken out by the attack could be back to full or near full capacity in 3