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At work, there are only two really important meetings: your job interview and the negotiation of your departure. Earl Nighingale said "The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. Remember: jobs are [...]

Many job-seekers are reluctant to use a professional recruiter. I consider this a mistake as a good headhunter has inside information and knows of jobs that will never be advertised and inside information you can never achieve from the outside. Here are 8 tips on how [...]

Looking for a new job? Good as there are plenty out there: we are in a candidate market and YOUR talent is needed! As a headhunter, I have found 500 jobs so far. And gave them all away! How does it work? Read on. [...]

I have been a headhunter since 2001 and believe that the best way to fill a vacancy is to use an executive search firm (especially for the executive search consultant who can send an invoice. This is a joke...). But whereas here at [...]

First of all: honorable and serious companies do not “bullshit” you. We are in a candidate market – and in a certain way have been for decades – and it would be shortlived to overpromise in the job interview and [...]

Happy Valentine's day! Is it after "5 reasons Santa Claus is a better Manager than you" and the "Halloween Special: 4 Points Your Boss Has In Common With A Serial Killer" appropriate to link another highlight of the year, Valentine's day, to career management? [...]

Ho, ho, ho – Christmas is near and this special year will end soon. Maybe, it brought you as a manager and leader to your limits. How did you do after all? What is the one leadership skill you evolved with last year, what [...]

Yogi Berra said "it is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future". What will the future of work be like? I am not an economist but my team and me have been interviewing thousands of candidates in the past 20 years who want [...]

Here comes what looks like an easy read—but not a banal one. The truth is that many many many companies manage the onboarding or their new managers or employees badly and they know it—and the candidates know it too. The factor that might save [...]

In my career as a headhunter, I have found new jobs for approximately 350 knowledge workers and interviewed thousands of candidates. And all of them saw themselves as above average candidates and often felt they understood both strategy and leadership better than their superiors. [...]

Counter offer! A candidate who has accepted a new job is "sold back" by his employer. The nightmare of the recruiter! What has happened until we got here? We have done a full search and talked to 150 candidates, sometimes more to identify those [...]

Do you have a successful product or service and want to go abroad? Or do you already have country operations yet they do not work as you wish? Insecure on how to manage intercultural differences - and similarities? We understand each other as international, [...]

Here comes the third and last contribution of three postings that examine what happens in the heart and in the head of a new recruit during the first three months in the new job. Victor answers to 5 questions after 4, 8 and 12 [...]

Today marks the anniversary of the Apollo moon landing. It was, in the words of Neil Armstrong, a giant leap for mankind. Just a few years later, in 1972, the last person ever set foot on the moon. Since, no missions to the moon [...]

ere comes number 2 of our series of postings that examine what happens in the head, heart and should of a candidate during the first three months in the new job. Victor (bio see below) who has told us 4 weeks ago how he [...]

This month, we kick off a series of three postings that will examine what happens in the head, heart and soul of a candidate during the first three months in the new job. This pretty much compliments my posting "The 7 Phases Of The Job [...]

Headhunters have what you don't have: inside information about your next employer and jobs that will never be advertised. We are watching the job market just like you but the difference is that we do nothing else but this, 50 hours per week and [...]

Here at Apollo Executive Search, we are receiving applications starting with "Dear Sir/ Madam" daily. Is the job market turning (again)? Is it that we have become so famous? Or is it just a conspiracy, organized by a secret organization, a foreign state or [...]

"How to be a good headhunter" is one of the terms that directs most of the traffic to this blog. Here comes my posting about how to be successful in recruitment, based on more than 20 years experience in this industry and after having trained, [...]

Did you ever wonder what we external and internal recruiters check when we decide within 5-10 seconds if your resume is of interest to us or not? Which are the red flags in YOUR resume – the reasons you will not make it to [...]

At work, there are only two really important meetings: your job interview and the negotiation of your departure. Earl Nighingale said "The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. Remember: jobs are [...]

Last year I wrote 5 Reasons Santa Is A Better Manager Than You. Good news: you have become much better this year! Yes, you even have a good potential to become a better Manager than Santa Claus in 2025! Read on for the anti-thesis of last [...]