Prospring Technical Staffing

By Jack Molisani, President, ProSpring Technical Staffing

Most candidates do not have interviewing strategies—they just answer the questions an interviewer asks and then leave hoping they did well enough to get a second interview.

This article explains four critical steps you can take to proactively control a job interview and lead it where you want it to go. Read more »

by Jack Molisani, President, ProSpring Technical Staffing

In the mid 1990’s I was laid off from my full time job as a sales engineer with a bank technology company. I spent months looking for a new engineering position, but no one was hiring.

A friend of my family put booths into home and garden shows selling Ginsu^® knives and asked me to fill in for a worker who had to miss a show.  I did well, and ended up working the home and garden show circuit for the rest of the summer.

It has been fifteen years since then, but I will always remember seven business lessons I learned from selling Ginsu knives. Read more »

Let me start with a confession: Scott Abel was right. More specifically, Scott Abel was right and I ignored his advice.

One of my favorite sayings is an expert is someone who has made all the mistakes possible in a given field. (Assuming, of course, you don’t keep repeating them.) But just when I thought I’d made all the mistakes possible in my field, they go and change the field!

I am referring to the explosion of social media and networking services, such as Facebook, Twitter, and blog-enabled corporate websites, etc.

Another confession: I am resistive to change. Not all change—I absolutely loved the jump from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95 and the next generation of online help available as a result—but I have finally realized that when it comes to certain technological changes, I am resistance personified. Read more »

Recruiters (both HR and agency recruiters) receive tens if not hundreds of resumes a day, each of which must be read, evaluated against current job requirements, processed, clarified and filed.

If you want them to help you find a job, help them do their jobs. Read more »