At Nexxt, we recently conducted a survey in order to better understand what makes some job seekers successful (defined as candidates that have received at least one job offer in the last six months) and what makes others not. When
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How Am I Ever Going To Get Experience When You Won’t Even Hire Me?
“How do I get experience when employers are only looking for candidates with experience?” is an all too common complaint we hear from frustrated candidates. And you’re right, this is exasperating and while we know this post won’t apply to
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Top 10 Places Where Job Openings Are Booming
Every quarter we analyze a bunch of data to figure out the top 50 metro areas in the US with the most job postings. There are the regulars each quarter like San Jose, CA where Silicon Valley is located and
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Would You Sport a Moustache During Your Job Search?
One third of job seekers said they won’t take part because they don’t want it to impact their job search October is a month dedicated to Breast Cancer Awareness and women’s health issues, but November is dedicated to the guys.
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Change Your Career Course and Discover New Lands!
A career change can be very scary. Especially if you’ve only ever worked in one industry your entire professional career; and maybe even within just one organization. Maybe you are actually great at what you are doing right now but
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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