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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

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

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

June 4, 2014 Julie Shenkman

Employers Tell All Infographic

Ever wonder what employers look for when they recruit candidates? Well now you can stop wondering because we’re going to tell you. We recently conducted a survey in conjunction with Millennial Branding, a Gen Y research and consulting firm, to

June 2, 2014 Julie Shenkman

Great Character Makes You a Great Candidate

I watch 60 Minutes every week and this week they did a story about a high school football coach named Frank Hall from Chardon, Ohio. Frank is just an ordinary guy with extraordinary character. In February of 2012, a student

May 19, 2014 Julie Shenkman

Top 10 US Cities to Find a Job & Make a Hire – Q1 2014

We all hear that big cities like New York have the most jobs and job seekers but when you do the math that’s just not the case. Here are the real best places to find a job and get hired

Man with words around him reading "All I said was don't want to work here. Why is the interview over?"

April 9, 2014 Julie Shenkman

Interview Advice I Can’t Believe I Have To Share

I recently heard a story about a job candidate that was asked to leave a job interview before the interview even began. Apparently the candidate bad mouthed the company in the reception area by casually mentioning that they didn’t have