You have spent years developing your professional judgement. Don't abandon it because you're temporarily unemployed.
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The objective isn't to manufacture activity so you can tell an interviewer about it. The objective is to remind yourself that your professional value didn't disappear when your employment ended.
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But if every previous employer was incompetent, every CEO was unreasonable and every board was political, a recruiter may eventually start wondering: what is the common denominator and recurring theme, and why has so much bad luck followed this HR leader?
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People talk. They remember leaders they enjoyed working with. They remember people who handled difficult situations well. They remember people who were commercially minded, honest, pragmatic and courageous. They also remember people who weren't.
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Being unemployed is a status. It is not an identity.
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The reality is that the senior HR job market operates differently from the broader employment market. A general job seeker may be able to apply for dozens of suitable roles every week. A senior HR professional cannot.
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One of the biggest mistakes senior professionals can make is disappearing from their network for years and then suddenly contacting everyone when they need new employment.
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It pains me to think the answer is to eliminate the human-to-human connection. Instead, perhaps the answer is to make that connection more purposeful.
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Transitioning into a new leadership role isn't about arriving with all the answers — it's about arriving with the right questions, genuine curiosity, and the humility to learn before you lead.
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No matter who writes it, you're the one who has to speak confidently to every claim on that page in an interview. Outsourcing the writing doesn't outsource the responsibility of truly knowing your own resume and work history
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3 months into my job search and I was starting to consider that I might not have any chance to get back into the type of work I’d done so successfully many years ago. It knocked my confidence.
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My colleagues and I have seen so many of the same mistakes made by senior level job seekers from across the HR profession, so many times.
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If you are caught lying on your resume, it can lead to disqualification from the hiring process and tarnish your reputation.
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Please don't oversell your experience. I can spot B.S. a mile off, and I will rate you more for your honesty if you haven't done everything we need.
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....despite everyone’s claims of commercial savvy, we still see 2 very different camps of HR job seekers.
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The interim contract and consultant market is becoming an increasingly popular route for many senior-level professionals.
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...look at this CV, this person has been working for 30 years, which is longer than I've been alive!
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Every HR person tells us that they're strong for relationship building, business alignment and partnering, change & project management, etc.
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