Zoom Backgrounds for Interviews 

Shall we meet in my bedroom? Zoom has become the most frequently used option to meet virtually, whether for family, social, or business purposes. As a company, Goodwin Recruiting had been using Zoom for candidate video interviews, client meetings, and internal video conferencing long before COVID, but the pandemic thrust its use more broadly and more deeply into our culture. And not always for the benefit of both parties.…

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How to Create ATS-Friendly Resumes

Have you been applying for positions and get few or no responses? It may have less to do with your work experience and more to do with the fact that your resume keeps getting rejected by the ATS. What is an ATS System? The “AT-what,” you ask? ATS system refers to an applicant tracking system.…

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Use the Law of Attraction to Get a Job

When The Secret came out in 2006, it became all the rage and sold 30 million copies by 2009. While Oprah Winfrey was a proponent of the book and an article in Good Housekeeping reported overall favorable results of a month-long experiment, the book took some hard knocks by critics of the promotion of positive…

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