Getting Hired, Networking and Building Your Fort – Chris Heivly Serial entrepreneur (MapQuest co-founder) and early-stage investor with company-building experience from $0 to $25M. Interest in startups, venture-backed companies, and venture capital organizations in and around the software technology. I am a frequent blogger – www.heivly.com, Contributing Writer for INC.com and speaker about startups, corporate innovation and entrepreneurial community development …
Many friends of mine think they’re great at reading body language, knowing what people think and presuming to know the future of business, politics and sport. It’s a sport to be this confident. Most think they’re good at golf and poker, too. But, in most negotiations, it’s not just what you say but how you say it that can influence …
Working with staffing companies, recruiters (both third party and company/organizational) can be intimidating. In a recent interview and discussion with one of our longtime networking friends I found some notes I thought would be helpful to our readers. Jeff Raxlin serves in an executive role with a leading recruiting company in North Carolina, Kelaca, and I posed a number of challenging questions to to find out some of what I call the insider secrets to networking with and building a relationship with recruiters. What you will see focus on Mr. Raxlin’s thoughts and my notes and thoughts on this issue of staffing and recruiter communications.