Everyone on LinkedIn, sooner or later, will be reached out by a recruiter in their lifetime.

Why? People look for jobs and a recruiter looks for a person that can excel in a job!

After I started my career in recruitment, I saw a lot of good and bad comments regarding recruiters — Some of them changed people’s lives forever with great job opportunities, pleasant conversations and a healthy share of experiences.

Others promise the moon to people and disappear out of nowhere without giving any justification.

As in other jobs, we have great people, and we have people that…

I was running yesterday and I saw a couple of people going to their jobs by car or by bus.

And BOOM this post “happened” in my head.

If you are an employed recruiter in 2021 do you know how lucky you are?

A lot of jobs that require human interaction still need to be done face-2-face.

And a job of a recruiter has a lot of human interaction BUT we can be safe at our homes!

Nurses, people that work in a supermarket or a petrol station and many other important jobs need to get up early to perform…

Another week, another post.

This week, I had a very helpful tip from Catarina Venceslau de Oliveira, asking me my opinion regarding photos on CVs.

She showed me a wonderful example. Someone was looking for a babysitter position and the photo was clearly taken after a great sun-set party.

If you are a parent (future manager) — what would you think about this?

I’m not a father but that photo itself could take a lot of points from this application or even be a direct NO because of it.

Is it judgement? Yes! Is it biased? Yes! Is this what…

Last week I did a post on LinkedIn asking opinions about Cover Letters.

Today I would like to share the insights that I got from that post and my personal opinion!

First, cover letter can be very useful to:

• Understand the motivation of the candidates;
• Assess the writing skills of the candidates;
• For Candidates that are changing industries/areas express their skills better;
• For Candidates that are not 100% a fit, they can express their ability to do the job well;

And we had interesting opinions in the post:

“Would say they are particularly important when seeking a career change, or applying for roles that are non-obvious career moves, which may lead recruiters to disregard an application…

24 days ago, we started a new year. I believe everyone has their own expectations, goals and dreams for this year. Even if you didn’t write or shared them with your family and friends.

Usually there are a lot of people who write their goals and share them with others as well as their predictions for the future year.

I would like to share my predictions, however I can’t predict the future (unfortunately!) …

In my point of view, getting feedback about your work, content, life or goals is the key to improve, be successful and happy in the long term.

However, it is not always that people accept feedback well, even myself don’t accept feedback in a good way all the time.

Sometimes I feel attacked, I feel offended, I feel bad. Why? Because constructive feedback hurts my ego, hurts my ambitions and makes me doubt my goals and dreams.

Still, I really need that kind of feedback, otherwise I will keep making the same mistakes all over again, I won’t improve, I…

During the pandemic a lot of people were fired from their jobs without much time to process the real reason for it.

When that happens people quickly jump to start applying to jobs online to reach the light at the end of the tunnel.

However, they are wasting a great opportunity to rethink their goals, career and life.

If you jump quickly to a job search and start to get rejections or lack of answers you will start to doubt your abilities, to get frustrated, anxious or even depressed due to the sentiment of failure in the past.

I would…

If you are one of the first employees of a startup company or if you join a big corporation that needs to reshape, you will probably need to create or re-do processes.

The reality of one is very different from the other but there are a couple of principles that will be the same.

First, you need to understand the reality, the challenges (or problems) and understand how companies, industry or teams will grow in the future.

I didn’t understand yet which one is more easy or more difficult because all of them are complex and all of them have a high chance to fail if you make the wrong assumption.

Understand the reality and the challenge should be easier.

You know…