Candidate Newsletters

Improve Your Career (And Get Free Stuff!)

This month, we invite you to improve your career- and get FREE stuff in the process! CPGpeople Turns 20 (Thousand) Last month CPGpeople, the CPGjobs LinkedIn Group exclusively for CPG Professionals hit a major milestone…membership soared passed 20,000! If you’re wondering how to best spend your time on LinkedIn building your network, connecting with people [...]

CPGjobs: Home to the World’s Best (Privately Held) Brands

    For years CPGjobs has been the career management home for some of the best known publicly held brands in Consumer Packaged Goods. We know our top-tier client company roster leaves a big impression on candidates and clients alike, but did you know that CPGjobs is also home to many terrific privately held CPG [...]

Don’t Forget, We Help You Connect!

    Talk to just about anyone looking for a job these days and you hear one thing over and over again, “I apply to hundreds of positions and I never hear anything back!” Applying to jobs with a customized resume and cover letter is incredibly time consuming. 99% of the time you never hear [...]

It’s No Secret, CPGjobs is Going Strong

  Last week someone passed an article to us that speculated about the potential sale of Monster.com. Its true, such rumors have circulated before. But there can be no doubt that in the past several years, the market position of (the big) job boards has been negatively impacted by social recruiting and the enormous popularity of [...]

Get Hired! Announcing the Pfizer Consumer Healthcare “Virtual Recruiting Open House” Event!

        CPGjobs, in partnership with Pfizer Consumer Healthcare and Brazen Careerist, is presenting our first online career event… and you’re invited! This Pfizer Consumer Healthcare “Virtual Recruiting Open House” event will be held on Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM EST. This event is FREE to all candidates. [...]

How to Follow Up After The Interview (Without Being a Stalker)

    The recent uptick in hiring activity means that more and more candidates are doing phone screens and personal interviews. While this is great news, it also means that recruiters and hiring managers (whose staffs may have been decimated in the darkest days of the recession) are likely to be under increased pressure and [...]

New Boss? 6 Smart Career Moves To Implement Now

    The one thing you can count on in business is nothing ever stays the same.  That goes for the boss, too.  Bosses come and they go even when your job remains in place.  In some businesses, they come and go so fast they feel like a hit and run.  While it would be [...]

Featured Employer: Pfizer Consumer Healthcare

Pfizer Consumer Healthcare (PCH) is among the largest over-the-counter (OTC) health care products companies in the world, with a global footprint of operations in more than 90 countries. We maintain leadership positions in many markets and sell two of the top 10 global brands (Advil and Centrum). PCH develops, manufactures and markets leading non-prescription medicines, vitamins and nutritional products…

New Trends in Resumes – 5 Ways To Capture Them in Yours

  Kathy Keshemnberg, NCRW, CCMC I’ve been writing resumes for more than twenty years, and it seems every few years new trends impact how we construct this job search document. Once again the trends are moving in a different direction, this time driven by the use of handheld electronic devices and advent of social media. Today’s [...]