Should I apply for a job I’m not fully qualified for?

A recruiter at a company has one responsibility: to find qualified candidates! Believe me, if you are the best candidate for the job, they want to know that and they want to be your top advocate to get hired! Typically, an HR recruiter finds that it is impossible to identify an applicant that meets 100% […]

Why am I not getting calls back when I send out my resume?

Answer – You write about ‘my resume’ as in ‘singular’ as in ‘I have one resume.’ Sorry, but every resume needs to be customized to the job you are applying for. We are living in an age of applicant tracking systems (those god-awful computer resume screening programs) but more than that, the competition is just […]

Reinvention focus: Become a Teacher!

The Denver Teacher Residency, a program of the Denver Public Schools, is a unique program that works with professionals to train them to become teachers.   If you’ve thought about becoming a teacher, you’re needed now more than ever. DTR is a groundbreaking program designed to recruit, train, and support committed and motivated people of all […]

Straight from a recruiter: Advice to job seekers

The advice below comes from a note I recently received from one of the City’s most respected recruiters. Many of Denver’s most well-respected organizations use her to help fill open positions and she has used AH Jobs List tohelp identify talent for these positions.  She is on the front line of helping to match talented […]

The Prius of Professionals – the Hybrid Employees

Recent job postings tell the story: those who with a variety of skills will be rewarded. This new type of multi-skilled professional is called a ‘hybrid employee’; the Prius of Professionals. A recent story by Alan Gionet of KCNC Channel 4 discussed the trend of hybrid employees.  Click here to read this story. For many, […]

JobsGobble: Lessons from Successful Job Seekers

AH Jobs List hosted an incredibly inspiring and motivating seminar last week at the AH Jobs List annual JobsGobble: Secrets of the Successful Job Seekers. Linda Sollars, one of Denver’s top job/life coaches moderated the panel composed of three victorious job seekers fresh from the hunt who shared their tales and offered tips from the […]

Your Job Search: Is it Time to Change the Pace?

I lost a tennis match the other day and quite frankly, it was a match I should have won easily. After reflecting on the match for a few days, I had an epiphany. Instead of playing to my core strengths, I was trying way too hard to be someone I simply was not. I’m a […]

The Problem with Job Fairs

I was interviewed by KCNC TV the other day to talk about job fairs. When they first called, they were a little surprised.  They were going to do a story about how job fairs were one approach to getting hired in a tough job market. I told them I thought job fairs were, in general, […]

How to Attract Great Interns

Andrew Hudson’s Jobs List posts hundreds of internship opportunities every year. Employers have been building up their college internship programs recently.   While many employers see college internship programs as an affordable way fill in the gaps caused by departmental budget cuts or layoffs, the most successful internship programs are those that actually provide structured learning […]

The one political advertisement we’d all like to see (but never will)

I don’t know about you, but I’ll be more than happy to be rid of the political advertisements that are polluting the air waves throughout Colorado and the nation. Here in Colorado, we’ve had the great misfortune to have almost $40 million worth of negative advertising forced onto us from both of our US Senate […]

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