Job Search Advice
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Hire People Who Can ‘Look Around Corners’
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When Genpact hires, it looks for people with curiosity, humility and learning agility.
Instead of focusing entirely on the usual talent indicators of background and experience, the 90,000 employee global professional services firm decided a few years ago that, as Piyush Mehta, Genpact’s CHRO, explains, “We need people who can look around corners.”
In an interview, Mehta pointed out that, “No single person has all the answers. And the …
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Here’s How to Land That First Clinical Research Job
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Starting a career in clinical research is challenging. Armed with a relevant college degree, an internship or two and even with a certificate in clinical management, landing an entry-level job isn’t easy.
Says Kunal Sampat, MNA, ACRP-CP and host of the Clinical Trial Podcast, “Employers want applicants to have relevant CRA experience.”
That’s the old chicken and egg dilemma: How do you get the experience without having a job and …
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Abbott Begins Hiring to Produce Its New Rapid Covid Test
Read the rest of this entry »Abbott Laboratories has begun hiring for facilities in Illinois and Maine that will make the pharmaceutical firm’s new rapid COVID-19 test.
The Illinois site is expected to fill 2,000 new positions. The plant in Westbrook, Maine will hire 1,200 workers. Most of the jobs will be temporary, but are likely to extend well into next year based on the company’s announced production schedule.
Abbott was contracted by the federal government …
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Seattle's Biotech Is Desperate For Workers
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One of the nation’s premier biotech centers is finding it so hard to fill jobs the state's trade association has launched an ambitious marketing campaign to lure workers to Washington state.
“Our industry has jobs. We have jobs at all levels,” said Leslie Alexandre, CEO of the trade group Life Science Washington. “We eagerly welcome people to come and join our ecosystem or to be trained from our schools and …
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Tech Writers Code In English
Read the rest of this entry »There’s a tech job that pays well, is growing fast and is in such demand that it’s taking employers weeks to fill an opening.
And it typically doesn’t require knowing any language besides English.
With the number of devices and applications mushrooming and their capabilities increasing just as rapidly, explaining to users how to make everything work is the job of technical writers. “They’re vital players when the time comes …
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Why Is Hiring So Difficult?
Read the rest of this entry »With unemployment at a historic high, filling jobs shouldn’t be difficult. Yet employers say it’s hard to find qualified people to hire.
The National Federation of Independent Business says a third of its members report having jobs they couldn’t fill. In the organization’s June survey, 84% of business owners hiring or trying to hire workers reported finding “few or no qualified applicants.”
The Federation’s members are small business owners who, …
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How to Build a Resume For a Career In Banking
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Across the nation, accounting, finance and business majors are locking in this summer’s internships. Some were lucky enough to accept offers in the fall. Most are doing that now.
There’s one group, however, that is looking ahead to summer 2021. Those are the undergrads intent on a career in investment banking, where internship recruiting by many of the largest banks and firms starts earlier than almost any other industry sector. …
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Dumb Mistakes That Will Cost You the Job
Read the rest of this entry »It is amazing how many perfectly fine candidates sabotage their chances at getting the job.
Matthew Ross, co-owner of two e-commerce sites, tells of a time a candidate volunteered she had lied to her employer about having a medical condition so she could get more time off.
“I couldn’t believe that someone would admit to lying to their former boss to what could have been their new boss,” Ross told …
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Survey: Half Of All Companies Expect to Hire This Year
Read the rest of this entry »Despite concerns the economy may be stalling, half of all companies still plan to add staff this year.
Global outplacement and executive coaching firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas says of the 150 companies it surveyed, 46% said they've been hiring throughout last year and intend to hire more workers in 2020.Another 5% of them said they expect to up their headcount "significantly."
Tempering the news is that far fewer companies …
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Clothes Won't Get You the Job But We Worry It Might Cost Us One
Read the rest of this entry »If you worry about your appearance before an interview, you're not alone. A new survey says most of us do. We spend at least an hour deciding on an interview outfit and still 54% of us worry there's some part of how we look that could cost us the job.
The survey of 1,997 workers found 86% believe it's important to look attractive to an interviewer; 63% believe they've benefited …
