Career Tips
Navigating the Recruitment Maze: Insider Tips for Job Candidates and Employers
Finding the right job candidate or landing your dream role can feel like navigating a maze in today’s competitive job market. As a talent recruiter with deep experience across healthcare, hospitality, technology, and other industries, I find common themes, questions, and challenges on both sides of the talent recruitment process. In this article, I’m…
How to Land a Six-Figure Job
Achieving a six-figure salary during a job search, or in other words, a job with an average salary ranging from $100,000 to $999,000, is very doable for many of America’s professionals. These salaries are reflective of prestigious or lucrative jobs and careers and they’re often associated with a mix of professional assets, such as bachelor’s…
The Fastest-Growing Industries for Jobs in 2025
A new year is approaching and for many professionals, the idea of a fresh start in a new industry or job can be enormously motivating. If you’re thinking about a career change or making a move to something different or better within your current industry, consider looking at jobs in the fastest-growing sectors of the…
How to Negotiate Your Salary
To those of you who may be looking for effective salary negotiation tips for a new job offer from a potential employer or in planning your next career move, here is some of my best advice. With 1.5 years of experience in the talent recruiting space and an additional 25+ years of management and…
Interview Salary Questions: Transparency or Trap?
Hiring managers and job seekers may find this article helpful in providing guidance on asking and answering questions about salary during job interviews. Having been a recruiting partner with Goodwin Recruiting for more than 2.5 years, along with years of management experience in the hospitality industry, I’ve conducted my fair share of job interviews –…
Contacted by a Talent Recruiter? Make Sure They’re Legit.
Not every recruiter who approaches job candidates is legitimate. Meaning, they may not be a talent recruiter at all, but rather someone pushing fake job offers with nefarious intentions. In fact, recruiting scams are a real and ongoing issue. The prevalence of scams and phishing schemes in the world of talent recruiting has made…
My Journey to Goodwin Recruiting: A Manifestation of Dreams
I used to think the idea of manifesting goals and dreams was a feel-good concept from self-help books, something to inspire hope but not taken too seriously. Now, I believe differently. My role as a senior talent recruiting partner at Goodwin Recruiting is more fulfilling than I ever imagined, and I truly believe it’s a manifestation…
10 Must Haves for Your Home Office
With over 25 years of experience working from home, it’s safe to say our team has some solid ideas when it comes to must have items for your home office setup. In no particular order, here are our Top 10 Must Haves for Your Home Office: Comfy Chair When you spend 40+ hours per…
Top 10 Highest-Paying Tech Jobs
Goodwin Recruiting is a specialist in sourcing and placing top IT talent in essential tech jobs. We partner with employers nationwide, connecting clients with the IT professionals and executives they need to compete and grow. What we glean from the talent search and hiring process, combined with our knowledge of IT human resource trends,…
My Surprises When I Joined Goodwin Recruiting
Just over a year ago, I took the leap and left traditional employment to start my own talent recruiting business by connecting with Goodwin Recruiting. As an experienced hiring manager, I wasn’t a stranger to human resources or the recruiting world, but starting a recruitment company from home was a whole new career path and ballgame. …
