During the course of your career, you’re not going to land every job for which you apply. (Unless, of course, you’re one of those “one in a million” type of candidates. If you are, then you just might.) As a result, disappointment is inevitable during your career. So it’s not a matter of IF you’re [...]
In our past few blog posts, we’ve addressed the top work habits of valuable employees and the work habits of non-valuable employees. These habits could determine whether or not you get hired . . . or whether or not you get fired. But what about your career overall? Which patterns of behavior could ultimately hurt [...]
There is a misnomer in the employment marketplace. (Actually, there’s more than one, but we’re going to focus on just one in the interest of this particular blog post.) That misnomer is this: you have to be looking for a job in order to consider a new job. That’s simply not true. What IS true [...]
It doesn’t matter if you’re not looking for a new job right now. It doesn’t matter if you like your current job and you like your employer. There are still benefits associated with having a conversation with a recruiter. As we explored in our previous blog post, talking with a recruiter does NOT mean that [...]
Professionals often get confused about recruiters, especially when a recruiter reaches out to them. This confusion is further exacerbated when a recruiter has never reached out to them before. Typically, they don’t know what to do. They don’t know what to say. Because of this, they sometimes do and say the wrong things. They think [...]
Welcome to the next blog post in our series about things that a professional in the Engineering or Information Technology fields can do to limit their career opportunities. We started the series with a post about why not being willing to relocate can hamper your career growth and potential. The next post in the series [...]
Welcome to the next blog post in our series about things that a professional in the Engineering or Information Technology fields can do to limit their career opportunities. We started the series with a post about why not being willing to relocate can hamper your career growth and potential. In this blog post, we’re going [...]
There are many things that a professional in the Engineering or Information Technology fields can do to limit their career opportunities. During our next several blog posts, The Doepker Group is going to explore some of those things. The first one is the unwillingness to relocate. And we’re certainly not downplaying the seriousness of relocating. [...]
Most of the time, a recruiter or recruiting agency is attempting to convince a job seeker or candidate to consider an employment opportunity. However, there are times when you should abandon a job or decline an offer of employment if a company or organization makes one. After all, there’s no point in pursuing a job [...]
In our most recent blog post, we examined “The One Characteristic That Could Give You a Huge Advantage.” That characteristic is resiliency. But what does resiliency look like? What do resilient people do? How do they think? These are all good questions, and as it turns out, necessary questions. That’s why we’ve decided to answer [...]