The Secret to Owning Your Next Marketing Interview
1. Do Your Homework Review the company’s online presence. This includes all social media and recent press. Don’t forget to check out sites like Glassdoor that provide information on possible interview questions and salary estimates. Know who you’re meeting with and find out a little background information on them. Where …
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Does Your Onboarding System Suck? Here’s How You Can Fix It
One of the most common mistakes a company can make when onboarding a new employee is to focus more on the company than on the new employees. An analysis conducted by the Boston Consulting Group found that a company’s onboarding process has the second highest impact on business after recruiting. …
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10 Tips to Hit the Ground Running at Your New Job
While landing your dream job is exciting, most people report that it comes with more anxiety than they would have expected. What will the commute be like? Will you get along with your boss? Are you really the right fit for the atmosphere? All of these questions can get so …
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Creating a Candidate-Centric Hiring Process
In 2014, Virgin Media discovered that it lost roughly $6.5 million in revenue due to not having a candidate-centric hiring process. 18% of the 125,000 people who applied to work at Virgin Media that year were also customers, and 33% of them, or around 7500 people, had such a poor …
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20 years of recruiter technology: This is progress?
We’ve come a long way. Sort of. As illustrated by the infographic above, the last 2 decades have seen lots of growth in the recruiter technology space, with automated solutions popping up to solve problems in every stage of the hiring process. It’s true that the job hunt has become …
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Do’s and Don’ts of Research Resumes
As the data science and research verticals expand, more and more researchers are reconsidering academic careers in favor of lucrative, cutting-edge jobs in the private sector. In academia, applications for research positions generally ask for a long-form CV. Private sector research jobs, on the other hand, are all about research …
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Do’s and don’ts of marketing portfolios
Now that HireKeep is matching marketing and research jobs, we wanted to give you a brief infographic primer on the art of marketing portfolios. This critical impression-maker is your first chance to show your creative talents and marketing street-cred to potential employers. There are many schools of thought about what …
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Do’s and don’ts of sales LinkedIn profiles
We’re back with the fifth installment in our infographic series on getting hired. Rather than focusing on sales resumes, this one is a little different, and covers some basic do’s and don’ts of sales LinkedIn profiles. This critical tool can make or break a job opportunity for you.
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Do’s and don’ts of sales resumes, part 1 [Infographic]
A lot of our team spends hours every day pouring over sales resumes. Some of us previously had careers doing that. Between our experience and our professional research, we know better than most what kind of information helps a sales resume, and what can hurt it. Below, our first infographic …
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6 things that make sales leaders different [Infographic]
Our founder has over 10 years of sales experience in the startup field. If you combine the sales experience of the entire HireKeep team, we have a few decades. In that time, we've learned something about leadership in sales, and what sets sales leaders apart from ordinary sales managers. We …
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