Julie Shenkman

Soft skills get little respect but will make or break your career

September 30, 2014 Julie Shenkman

Top 5 Soft Skills Employers Look For

While employers and hiring managers typically use a job seeker’s technical skills to narrow down the candidate pool, it’s the job seeker’s soft skills that will most likely land them the job. The interview process is the time when a

September 15, 2014 Julie Shenkman

What skills matter most to recruiters? [INFOGRAPHIC]

So what are recruiters looking for, hard skills or soft skills? And are recruiters finding candidates with the skills they need

September 11, 2014 Julie Shenkman

How to Get Your Soft Skills to Shine Through on Your Resume

When we hire employees at Nexxt we employ a philosophy that has yet to steer us wrong. The philosophy is easy—the skills can be taught, but you can’t teach fit. With that idea in mind we decided to survey both

August 26, 2014 Julie Shenkman

Career Advice from One of This Year’s Emmy Winners: “Find that passion..it’s really worth it.”

It’s true that not many people make it in show business, but when they do, they like to talk about it and share advice on how to get there. Some of them claim that they’re simply lucky and it was

August 5, 2014 Julie Shenkman

Top Ten Places to Find a Job Q2 2014

So you’re in the market for a new job, but you don’t know where to look? Start here with the top ten places to find a job.

July 24, 2014 Julie Shenkman

Job Seeker Dilemma: What If You Have to Cancel a Job Interview?

There was recently a story in the news about a woman who left her children in the car while she went on a job interview. Shanesha Taylor, the mother of two, faced a dreaded decision that many job seekers are

July 16, 2014 Julie Shenkman

Being Let Go from a Job Doesn’t Mean You’re Not Talented

This week the list of Saturday Night Live Cast Members that will not be returning next season was released. While not every cast member at SNL will go on to have careers like Tina Fey or Jimmy Fallon there are

July 7, 2014 Julie Shenkman

This App Will Make Sure Interviewers Know Your Name

A few months ago we wrote a post called “The Best Way to Have the Interviewer Get Your Name Right” that included some easy tips to ensure the interviewer pronounced your name correctly. But now there’s an App for that

June 27, 2014 Julie Shenkman

The Top 9 Career Articles of the Month

It’s almost the end of the month, so we thought it would be fitting to share an end of month list! Here are the top nine articles from Beyond in June: The Job Search is Moving to Mobile Devices Three

June 10, 2014 Julie Shenkman

Are you in a dying career?

The May Jobs Report revealed that the job market has finally returned to its 2008 peak with 217,000 jobs. This means that there are now more jobs in the country than ever before. So why are those who lost their