#57 - Evaluating Opportunities
Adam Karpiak
My resumes and job search strategies get people hired. Go to KarpiakConsulting.com for my services! Looking for a job sucks. I make it suck less.
This week I'm talking about how to figure out what opportunities to pursue and how to properly vet opportunities, including:
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Don't forget about the Stupid Interview Questions (are you a beach person or a mountain person?), and a jobseeking horror story about being rejected for an internal candidate after 8 interviews with 9 people over 2 months.
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Jobseekers, have a great rest of your week, and good luck with those applications!
-Adam
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1yI have to do remote work too, so I’ve got to get that fact in my resume
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1yI need some help with going over a new resume and then being able to retrieve it.
This feels like Kismet! Will run to my inbox now and read.