The Career Transition Experts

This episode offers essential tips for aligning your authenticity with company culture and hiring managers during a job search. Discover the importance of self-awareness, research, and networking in finding a job that aligns with your personal values and passions. Key takeaways include:

• Knowing yourself: Understand your strengths, passions, and what makes you tick.
• Researching companies: Learn about company values, mission, and founders to find a cultural fit.
• Highlighting soft skills: Emphasize your interpersonal skills and how they align with recruiters and company's culture.
• Networking effectively: Connect with hiring managers and recruiters through career networking platforms like LinkedIn to showcase your unique qualities.
• Being passionate: Show genuine enthusiasm for the company and its mission.

Our guest, Amanda Mintz is a leading Executive Recruiter specializing in luxury retail, fashion, beauty, and lifestyle brands. With a decade and a half of experience, she founded Amanda Mintz Creative Management (AMCM) in 2010, crafting dream teams for iconic brands including Calvin Klein, Sephora, Estee Lauder, Sweet Green and Milk Makeup to innovative startups like Sechey and Chillhouse, whom she has also served as a board member, advisor, and angel investor.

You may contact her at [email protected].

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Hiring managers are always looking at the details of how you represent yourself in your career path. Candidates need to know that every little thing matters:

• Have a good LinkedIn portrait - it’s an immediate pre-interview job qualification
• Dress for success even for a Zoom interview - you’ll be judged on your job readiness
• Proofread! Punctuation errors in your resume can be noticed and impact your hiring

Alison Tringale, is a Managing Partner with DHR Global (an executive search firm with 50+ offices across the globe). Prior to DHR, she spent 7 years as a management consultant and ran a boutique search firm for almost 10 years. She started her career at Pepsico in their supply chain organization. She enjoys working with innovative leaders that are looking to disruptive technologies such as blockchain, RPA, IoT, etc. to meet increasing customer demands. You may contact her at [email protected].

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Recruiters work for the hiring managers that pay the bills, but that doesn’t mean they can’t help with your career and job search.

• Be specific on what you want next in your career and job. If you look at a sense of purpose and the bigger picture, it will get you farther.
• Most recruiters care more about their work and quality of life, than just making money on placements. Many times they may talk a candidate out of a job it seems for the wrong reason.

They will want you to consider them as a choice recruiter when you need help or have a talent problem.

• It’s best to keep the interview process simple with no more than 4 interviews to decide. Too many hiring managers overcomplicate the process and make it harder. Help them by not rescheduling interviews - keep your appointments.
• Your reputation matters to the recruiters you want as your advocate with hiring managers.

Ben Martinez has 20+ years of experience in-house recruiting and executive search recruiting. Owner and is the Principal recruiter of Ramp Talent for the last 5+ years. They work with growth stage companies on technology roles, sales roles and key executive hires. He has also personally worked on the executive team at VC-backed companies and now partners w/ VC firms with their portfolio companies to hire top talents. You may contact him at [email protected]. He owns an e-commerce coffee roasting company that roasts and ships anywhere in America - https://sumatocoffee.com/

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In searching for that next outstanding job in your career, there are many similarities between networking, job hunting, and sailboat racing. Here’s a segment of my chat with a recruiter I know from the City Island Yacht Club’s Big Tom” Racing Series. He provides insights on knowing where you fit in the marketplace, and how to stay true, focused, and to keep going no matter what.

Ernie Bivona is a key player in the chemical ingredients marketplace. He is the President/Owner of Starboard/Sales Consultants of Morris County, Inc. His office identifies and recruits the industry's top talent. As part of MRINetwork, they are affiliated with one of the world’s largest recruitment and placement organizations, with nearly 400 offices spanning four continents. You may contact him at [email protected].

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In order to position yourself as the top candidate for the job you'll love, you need be able to show that you are the person they need - that you can solve the key problems, that you've done your research, and that you'll fit well into the company culture.
When you only have an hour or so to position yourself during an interview, it pays to be prepared.
In today's episode, Jonathan and veteran search professional Anthony Caputi discuss the importance of finding the right candidate for the role - and how to position yourself as that top candidate. Anthony shares both actionable strategies and examples to equip you to put those strategies to work for you.
You'll learn which questions to ask in your interview, when and how to ask them, and why. In addition, you'll discover new ways to approach your interview preparation and articulate your value proposition to a prospective employer.
Anthony also shares about how to keep a good balance during your interview - how to be give a solid presentation without making it "all about you" - as well as how to make sure that you have a solid understanding of the company's expectations of you early on.
In addition, Anthony shares several questions you should consider and prepare answers for prior to any interview:
1. Why have you chosen a career in __________ field?
2. In what areas of that field would you say you're an expert?
3. In what areas of that field would you like mentorship or training?
4. In what area of this field do you prefer to be less involved?
5. What made the best manager you ever had the best manager you ever had?
6. What made the worst manager you ever had the worst manager you ever had?
7. Looking back, 5 years from now, what would you like to have achieved?
8. How many managers have you reported to in the last 5 years, and what were their strengths and weaknesses as managers?
9. In your past 3 roles, what specifically were you hired or tasked to deliver? (Be specific!)
10. What were specific victories and challenges that you faced, and how did you approach and handle them?
11. Tell me about a time when you fell short, and what did you learn from this experience?
12. Where have others helped you be more successful?
13. How have you helped others be more successful?
You'll find these insights and more in this episode.
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Anthony Caputi is the Managing Director at Ezekiel Global Executive Search, a company based in Charlotte, North Carolina that specializes in working with US and European entrepreneurial and growth-stage businesses. You can find Anthony on LinkedIn and at EzekielGlobal.com.
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