Management Recruiters Shine in Utah

Management Recruiters of Salt Lake City was recently listed in Utah Business Magazine, as one of the best places to work in Utah. With so many companies watching out for their own bottom line, people are left to scramble to just keep their jobs let alone feel secure and happy in their employment.

Management Recruiters is one of the world’s largest search and recruitment organizations. They provide services for small-to-mid-size firms as well as Fortune 500 companies in a number of specialized industry segments.

Some of the reasons that people like working for their company is that Dirk Cortell, president of Management Recruiters of Salt Lake City actually watches out for his employees and says that he hasn’t had to lay anyone off for eighteen years.

What makes this company fun to work for?

“Although we have a professional dress code, the men don’t wear ties,” he says. “We also have a workout facility, a kitchen stocked with many free items, and various office outings and incentive trips. In-fact 12 couples from the company just returned from a seven day Southern Carribean cruise with stops in St Thomas, St Maarten, Antigua, St Lucias and Barbados.”

Advice for hiring new employees

Based on his nearly twenty years as a recognized expert in the area of hiring, Cotterell offers practical advice for hiring and retaining the right people:

• Look for people who have a recent successful track record, who are smart and who have stable personal lives.
• If you don’t connect with the candidates, don’t hire them.
• Determine upfront whether your opportunity aligns with the candidates’ ambitions.
• Once you’ve made the hire, strive to bond with your people.
• Provide a stable, ethical and professional environment, as well as the resources your people need for success.
• Assuming you hired right, don’t give up prematurely on people.

In a recent press release, the keys to Cotterell’s success were shared with everyone.

The effectiveness of Cotterell’s approach to hiring and retention was underscored recently by the selection of Management Recruiters of Salt Lake City as one of seventeen companies recognized by Utah Business Magazine as the best companies to work for in the state. In addition, the Mountain West Capital Network cited the company in the “Fastest Growing Category” of the Utah 100, a program that highlights the achievements of both emerging and mature businesses in Utah.

Management Recruiters of Salt Lake City was the only company in the state of Utah that achieved both awards in 2008. The company is also ranked number three in 2008 among the more than 1,000 offices within MRINetwork.

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Job Search Remedies

Do you hate to perform a job search?  Does it make you sick just thinking about searching for a job? Well, you are not alone. People who have worked their entire lives at a business and then get laid off or fired are at a loss when it comes to searching for another job. It may have been over 20 years since the person has written a resume.

Here are some job search remedies for you.

Rent a Movie

You may be depressed about your job loss, but watching this movie will make you think about your situation in a new light.  Even if you aren’t a Jim Carrey fan, this movie will move you from the couch to the floor because you are laughing so hard.

Find someone else to write your resume

Avoid the pain of writing your resume by asking someone else to write it.  Of course you can pay someone to write it at Monster.com.  For $249 you can get a cover letter and resume written for you. Tackle the job of writing your resume as soon as possible.  If you put it off, you are losing months of time in getting that job.  Don’t sweat it too much though because there are websites that can actually give you ideas about writing your resume.

Job Search Websites

• LinkedIN provides you with search features for the zip code you live in and is a networking website of professional business people.
• Monster.com will allow you to build your resume online or upload your own.  They also offer professional resume writing for you.
• Indeed.com is actually a job search engine.  As of July 25, they had posted 141,178 new jobs in the past 7 days. It searches job sites, newspapers, associations and company career pages.

When you are looking for a job, it is easy to get overwhelmed with advice. Try just a few of these ideas to see if they will remedy your job searching headaches.  Leave us some of your suggestions to add to this article.

10 Quick Tips for Job Hunting after being Laid Off!

When people lose their jobs, it’s a devastating experience no matter how tactfully they were told they were no longer needed. The life they once knew as financially and emotional secure has been ripped away.  According to many sources this loss is similar in intensity to a divorce or death.

Here are 10 quick tips for surviving a job loss. (Click on the dog to buy the cute doggie tee.)

1. Be grateful for at least one thing in your life on a daily basis. It’s so easy to get angry about situations beyond your control.  Gratitude helps immensely.

Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. We cannot change our past. We cannot change the fact that people act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable.  The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. – Charles Swindoll, Minister/Author

2. Get dressed for the day as if you were going to an interview. You will feel more competent and better prepared for anything that may come up during the day.  Get out of those pajamas (unless you are looking for a job as a pajama model) and act as if you were going to be working soon!

3. Focus on getting face-to-face interviews. The chances of getting a job are increased with every face-to-face interview with a person who has the power to hire. It seems too obvious to point out, but the end goal of obtaining a job cannot be reached without face-to-face interviews.

4. Talk to everyone you know and let them know you are looking for work. If there was ever a time in your life that you felt more like crawling in a hole and covering yourself up with sand, this is it.  Let go of this feeling as quickly as possible. The more people that are aware you are job hunting, the higher your chances of getting interviews that lead to employment.

5. Become a sales person about the most important thing you will ever sell anybody – YOU! It is extremely difficult for some people to think of themselves as a product, but in a way that is what we are. If you could describe yourself as a product a buyer needs what would you say?

6. Control the job hunting process. Being laid off is a situation that is out of your control. In fact the only thing you have control of is the actual job hunting process. Plan out daily time periods where you will be on the phone inquiring about job openings and actually talking to possible employers.  Avoid doing anything else during this time.

7. Don’t overrate the value of a resume. What is going to get you hired with a new company is your interaction with the interviewer. Write a good resume, but don’t get stuck on spending hours doing it. Many employers are extremely busy and just want the answers to where your worked, how long you were working and what you did.

8. Avoid writing an objective on your resume. Employers care about what they want, not what you want. They want to know if you will fit the position they have in mind for you. As Tony Beshara states in his book, “The Job Search Solution,”

The clear message of an effective resume needs to be  “You need to interview ME because this is what I have done in the past FOR OTHERS and therefore THIS IS WHAT I CAN DO FOR YOU!

9.  Jobs are given to the people who sell themselves best. Don’t be afraid that the qualifications you have aren’t the absolute perfect fit for the jobs you apply for. Maybe someone else looks better than you on paper, but people get hired who are best at selling themselves.

10. Research, research, and more research. Find out about the company you are asking to work for.  Find out everything you can about them. Ask yourself if you would be happy working for that company. Talk to people who are already working there.

Many more tips and ideas can be found in Tony Beshara’s book, The Job Search Solution: The Ultimate System for Finding a Great Job Now! (Job Search Solution)