A Guaranteed Way to Stand Out Before a job interview, conduct as much research as humanly possible about the organization and gain a strong understanding of the company’s history, their current position in the industry, and their future goals.  Learn as much as possible about the industry as well.  If you can understand the company’s potential challenges and the challenges

Interview with Laura Lashua: Expert Recruiter Laura Lashua has 33 years of recruiting experience and 13 of those years have been solely for the game industry.  She is the founder of Vertex Search & Consulting based in Washington, a well-known and often used recruiting firm among the largest game publishers and developers in the world.  With Laura’s experience and reputation,

What is the Elevator Pitch? The elevator pitch has been preached to job seekers for many years. The basic premise is that if you ever found yourself in an elevator ride with someone you admire like Steve Jobs or Bill Gates, you would be able to convince them to hire you by the time the ride was over. Thus, the

The best interviewers are the ones who know themselves inside and out and because they have insight to their own behaviors, attitudes, goals, strengths and weaknesses, they can comfortably talk about them to an employer. However, interviewers must also be strong communicators. Whenever I tell people this, they immediately think that I mean they must be able to speak well

Having conducted hundreds of interview trainings, I have observed that job seekers tend to struggle the most when responding to the “weakness question.”  The advice most job seekers receive about responding to questions regarding their weaknesses is to simply ”turn a negative into a positive.”  I cringe when I hear this advice because it encourages job seekers to avoid a true analysis of themselves

When helping students in their job search, career professionals already have to overcome obstacles such as the economy, unrealistic student expectations, and a lack of resources.  When students lack communication skills, career professionals’ jobs become much more difficult.  The 80 million-strong Millennial generation (individuals born between 1980 and 1995) permeate the current college landscape.  Although technically savvy, having grown up