Intro

Recruiter Musings is a blog that was created in 2009 by Michael Spiro, the President of Midas Recruiting. Its mission is to provide free advice, information, guidance and support for all types of job-seekers in the real world during a time of unprecedented economic challenges. Since its creation, it has rapidly grown in popularity, now receives thousands of hits a week, and has regular followers and subscribers from all over the world.

The following is a selected list of the most popular blog postings published here, organized by category, that should be of particular interest to new readers:

Networking:
► Looking for Networking in All the Wrong Places
► How to Network: A Step-by-Step Guide for Job Searching
► Targeted Networking: How to Effectively Reach Out

Résumés and Cover Letters:
► The Brutal Truth on How Résumés Get Eliminated
► The Résumé Test & Checklist: Does Yours Pass?
► The “T” Cover Letter – The Only Type Worth Sending
► Explaining Short Job Stints and Employment Gaps
► Beating the Résumé-Elimination Game: Where Do Recruiters’ Eyes Go?

Interviewing:
► Phone Interviews: Secrets, Tricks and Tips
► Face-to-Face Interviews: Secrets, Tricks and Tips
► Nuggets: A Secret Interviewing Technique
► Answering the Dreaded Salary Question
► Skype Interview Tips … Welcome to the Future!
► 20 Surefire Ways to Blow an Interview

General Job-Seeking:
► Recipe for a Well-Balanced Job Search
► Is Your Elevator Pitch Taking You UP or DOWN?
► Avoiding the “Black Hole” of HR
► Using Social Media to Enhance Job-Searching

Age Discrimination:
► Age Discrimination: Secret Conversations Revealed
► Age Discrimination: Exposing Inconvenient Truths
► Are You “Overqualified?” Handling the Age Issue …
► Overcoming Job-Search Obstacles and Redefining Your Career After 50

Job-Seeking Humor:
► Comic Relief: Volume 1
► Comic Relief: Volume 2
► Comic Relief: Volume 3
► Comic Relief: Volume 4
► Comic Relief: Volume 5

Links to all the above listed blog articles – as well as dozens of others – can be found on the right-hand sidebar of every “Recruiter Musings” page.