Based in large part on his soon to be published book, A Hooker’s Guide to Finding a Job: Parables from the Real World of Executive Recruitment and Career Counseling, Bruce Hurwitz, president and CEO of Hurwitz Strategic Staffing, will review the misconceptions candidates have about the job search process.

Using real world examples from his over eight years executive recruitment and career counseling experience, Bruce will explain to his webinar (FREE) participants how to secure a job offer.

Date: Friday, March 30
Time: 1:00 PM ET

What would happen if you had some choices that you could control in your career?

While it's often true we cannot choose our co-workers, we can make conscious choices to improve our career prospects.

When career professionals advise job seekers to check out a "company's corporate culture," this refers to collecting information, such as work culture, before accepting a job offer.

Success Tweet: Focus on what you are becoming. This helps you believe in yourself and builds your confidence. Confidence is important to your success.

I love the idea of “becoming.”

It’s really a positive concept, and it’s similar to a couple of the ideas in The Optimist Creed. The sixth point of The Optimist Creed says, “Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.” The ninth point says, “Give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others.”

I've had this conversation time and time again with clients, job candidates, younger friends...

They went to an entertainment personnel agency and during the interview, the agent asked what kind of job they were looking for. They were very clear, they tell me. They told the agent they wanted to work at a film production company. Or a TV network. Or a music management company. They wanted to work in the story department. They didn't want an admin job. They wanted a management trainee position.

The agent nodded and smiled. She seemed to understand. But then she sent my client, job candidate, or young friend to a post production house to interview for an admin job. “Just go on the interview,” the agent prodded. “I think they’ll really like you.”

I was at a pretty large networking event recently where I witnessed the most painful attempt at face-to-face networking I’ve ever seen.

It made me realize something about face-to-face networking advice I fear lots of people misinterpret.

A recent study done by the folks over at ZipRecruiter.com shows half of hiring managers won’t consider you without a cover letter, and that two-thirds of hiring managers will not hire you based on what they read in your cover letter.

TRANSLATION: You better have a "get them at hello in a good way" cover letter.

Join CareerHMO CEO, J.T. O’Donnell for a down-and-dirty look at the number one cover letter technique.

When it comes to buying a proven business, you have only two options: Buying a franchise, or buying an existing business.

Both have pros and cons.

Join Franchise Expert, Dan Citrenbaum from The EntrepreneurOption.com for a detailed look at the best way to evaluate the options!

It's funny how many well-intended people give out the single worst, I mean REALLY bad piece of job seeker advice to their family and friends.

As you can imagine, whenever I get caught up in a conversation about my work, people always want to tell me about a job seeker they know and the advice they gave them. It goes something like this:

Do you have a cocky co-worker?

Is there someone in the office that can’t stop telling everyone how great they are at their job, or how much more they know than everyone else?

We’ve all had to work with that type of person before.

Success Tweet: Vision without action is a daydream. No matter how big your plans and dreams, they’ll never become reality until you act on them.

As a career success coach, I’m always looking for new and different ways to get across my common sense ideas on life and career success.

I found some great ideas great career advice in a Denver elementary school a couple of months ago. I was invited to see the Go For It! Institute’s program in action at a school in Denver. If you don’t know about the Go For It! Institute, you should. The Institute teaches kids the value of things like positive attitude, believing in themselves, positive habits, goal setting, and persistence.