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I f​ollow a recruiter named Adam Karpiak on LinkedIn and Twitter, and he is constantly posting the real truths about what it’s like to be a recruiter. He posts tips and tricks for recruiters, clients, and candidates alike. This one particular post is what inspired this Tip of the Day.​​I could not agree more with Adam! When you’re writing your resume or answering interview q...

‘Tis the Season to be jolly, and also find a new job! Being unemployed or in a job that doesn’tpaywell during the holidays can be tough, but there is some good news: The winter, December through February, is a fantastic time tolook for a new jobbecause a lot of companies are working with new budgets as they start off the new year. Hiring managers and recruiters are also taki...

​It may seem like a small thing, and to some recruiters and hiring managers it won’t matter too much, but saving your resume with your name instead of ‘resume’ may make a difference. When sending your resume to a staffing agency especially, you’re sending it to someone who looks at hundreds of resumes in a day. Being able to differentiate your resume in any sort of way will ...

​Dear Jason,It has been just over 3 months since I lost my job due to a pharmacy closing. They could not promise me a set schedule or any guaranteed hours, so I had to part ways with them. However, I am beginning to get somewhat discouraged. I live in an area that is saturated with pharmacists due to 6 schools of pharmacy. I want to stay positive, but it is getting hard. Wha...

​As a leader in healthcare and pharmacy staffing, Pharmaceutical Strategies strives to provide resources to clients and candidates for the betterment of their pharmacy careers. For our candidates, that means assisting them in their education and growth of their careers through additional licensing and certifications. Below you will find a summary of how to apply for and rece...

​If you’re working with our staffing agency or another, building a relationship with your recruiter is going to be a key ingredient to your success in gaining a job with the agency. I wrote a little bit more detail on how to build a relationship with your recruiter and you can read that here, but this post will be a little bit more on the why.So why exactly should you build ...

​One of the best things happening in the pharmacy industry is that more and more states are providing Pharmacy Technician training licenses so that prospective pharmacy technicians can gain professional working experience prior to taking the test or spending the money to become a certified pharmacy technician. A long-lasting career in pharmacy is nothing without the PTCB or ...

​You’ve heard it once and you’re never going to stop hearing it; check your spelling and grammar on your resume. Check it a thousand times, have a colleague or friend check it for you. As many times as this is told to people, things still get missed. You can’t really blame someone for small typos… but can you? It’s 2018, almost 2019, and computers rule everything. Autocorrec...

​Emails are the text message of the business world. They can be quicker than phone calls, they aren’t disrupted by timezones and distances, and almost everyone has an email address. However, just because they’re as easy as a text message, emails shouldn’t be treated as text messages. There is still a level of email etiquette that should be noted before sending an email. Espe...

​With October almost over, we are at the end of our third quarter and gearing up for the fourth quarter and the start of the new year. So what were we up to in the last quarter?First off, we added a brand new job board to our website. Now you can see all of our postings in one convenient place! Just go to pharmaceuticalstrategies.com/jobs-new and you can browse based on the ...

​I was scrolling through LinkedIn this morning and came across a video posted by Business Insider on how cookie cutters were made. The video made something in my brain click. Cookie cutters, at least the ones shown in this video, are made by specially designed machines for the desired pattern, each pattern has its own machine. The machine has the design in the center, say a ...

Send your resume as a PDF or Microsoft Word DocumentWith almost any job application you can guarantee that some form of your past experience will be required, mostly in the form of a resume. While the physical resume is slowly losing the battle with technology, the online resume has been ruling the game for quite some time. Applicants will upload the resume, sometimes a cove...

The wait is over; our big surprise is finally here! We’re moving to Chicago! Or at least Adrianna, our Business Development Manager, is. We are so happy to announce that in October, Adrianna Forgione will be heading to the Windy City to live and work and make lasting connections with candidates and clients in the area. I sat down with Adrianna to ask her a few questions abou...

​Email Etiquette: match the tone of who you received the original email fromSending an email seems like such a mundane thing, but sometimes it can send the completely wrong impression. An ill-written email can lead to a very bad first impression for both job seekers and employers. I wouldn’t want to work with an employer that sent a grammatically incorrect email with spellin...

Always Say Thank you, and then some!I read a great article on Forbes.com yesterday, outlining why you should always go the extra mile when saying thank you, and I couldn’t agree more. The article has four brief suggestions for what you can do to go that extra mile to say thank you, including the very simple acts of writing a recommendation on LinkedIn and endorsing their ski...

Keep your resume up to date, even if you aren’t looking for a new position.If you’re not looking for a new position it may seem silly to be updating your resume, cover letter, and references, but you never know what life might bring you. You could be scrolling through LinkedIn and come across your dream position. You could get laid off with no warning. Or countless other sit...

​Change is scary. In fact, one of the reasons people stay in a job they don’t like is the fear of change. Questions lurk in the back of our minds. What if I don’t get along with my new co-workers? What if I can’t perform as well in this new role? Can I manage a huge learning curve at my age? One additional fear may simply be the uncertainty about how to properly and professi...

​Be mindful of how you end a phone call, cold callers are people too!I know that a cold call isn’t always the best thing in the world, you might be busy, or you really just don’t want to listen to a canned and scripted message, but there is a way to end a phone call without abruptly hanging up the phone. As someone who has made thousands of cold calls, and also received cold...

​Check To make sure your references are up to dateWhenever you start a new job hunt, contact each of your previous references and contacts and make sure that they are still available to be used as a reference. If they do not answer or get back to you, don’t use them as a reference, and create a new list. There are few things more damaging when a recruiter cannot get in touch...

​Your resume should be in chronological order with your most recent position at the topWhen a recruiter opens your resume, they want to look right at the top and see what your most recent experience is. If they look to the top and see that your most recent job position was a Delivery Person for John’s Pizza in 1997, they’re going to be a little confused as to why you’re appl...