Peggy McKee
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Job Search, Interview, and Career Coaching Expert
Peggy McKee Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- job search, job interviews, career coaching, medical sales recruiting
- Career Focus
- Career Coach and Sales Recruiter
- Affiliation
- Career Confidential, PHC Consulting
Peggy McKee is the CEO of Career Confidential, a rapidly growing job search training company based in Texas that specializes in providing job seekers with powerful and customizable tools and techniques to get the jobs they want fast.
Since 2009, Career Confidential has been helping job seekers all over the world get hired. After assisting over 15,000 people get jobs, Career Confidential has set a goal to get at least 15,000 more people into successful careers in the next year. Career Confidential is committed to getting the unemployed back to work.
A passionate and dedicated advocate for job seekers, Peggy teaches people how to become employed very quickly through an aggressive approach and targeted tools and training in everything from resumes to social media presence to contacting hiring managers to interview strategy to closing for the offer and negotiating salary. Her background in sales, management, recruiting and career coaching combine to make her a unique and valuable resource. She maintains a blog on Career Confidential as well as a Career Confidential YouTube Channel. In her spare time, Peggy likes to ride horses and hang out with her husband and two children.
Peggy has been named #1 on the list of the Top 25 Most Influential Online Recruiters by HR Examiner, and has been quoted in articles from CNN, CAP TODAY, Yahoo!HotJobs, and the Denver Examiner about being successful in the job hunt.
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***Executive Job Search
Are you in an executive job search? Statistics say that you’ll spend one month in the job search for every $10,000 you earn. Do you have that kind of time? Of course not. You can have your pick of executive positions if you are as strategic with your executive job search as you are with your executive job. How? Let’s start with this: Here are the 3 things that keep most executives from getting interviews:
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***So you got fired. Is your career over? Nope
As a career coach, I talk to job seekers in difficult circumstances all the time. One of the biggest problems that job seekers can face is that at some point, they were fired--for fault. It wasn't downsizing. It wasn't the economy. They did something that caused the company to let them go. If you were fired, you might think that your career is over--but chances are, it isn't.
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***Amazon Audiobook – 101 Job Interview Questions – Listen and Lea
My most popular ebook, How to Answer Interview Questions, is now available as an Amazon Audible Audiobook! (It's also available as an audiobook on <a href="https://play.google.com
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***What To Do When Your Job Search Sucks
If your job search sucks, it's probably the result of one of 3 things:
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***How to Answer Behavioral Interview Questions
Hiring managers love behavioral interview questions, because these kinds of questions dig deeper into what kind of employee you really are. Answers to behavioral interview questions must be in the form of stories, or examples of things you've done in your career. They are projections from you about how you would handle everyday or stressful situations in this new job, based on how you've handled similar situations before.
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***90-Day Business Plan for Your Job Interview
A 90-Day Business Plan for your job interview is an outstanding tool to show the interviewer why you're the one they should hire--whether you're very experienced or just starting out in your field. If you really want the job and you're facing some stiff competition, a 90-day business plan is what you need to get the offer. Your next step is to find out what a 90-Day Business Plan is, what it does for you, and how to create one for your next job interview.
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***5 Phone Interview Questions You Will Be Asked (And Tips on How to Answer Them)
How to answer common phone interview questions Hiring managers don't necessarily want to spend a lot of time, money and energy interviewing every potential candidate face-to-face. So most of them fall back on the practical: phone interviews. Do well with the phone interview, and the hiring manager will probably decide you're worth that extra effort of an in-person meeting. Do a poor job, and you're out.
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Phone Interview Tips - Number 35: The One Question You Should Ask
Do you know the most important question you should ask in phone interviews? Hopefully, you already know that it’s important that you should ask questions in your telephone interview. But you might not know that one question in particular can ensure a good interview or even turn the tide of a bad interview. What’s the question? The question is: What does your ideal candidate look like? What’s on their wish list of skills and qualifications of someone in this role? If a person with those qualities walked through the door now, they’d be drooling and trying to hire them on the spot.
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Phone Interview Tips - Number 32: Good Telephone Communication
Job interviews are all about communication, right? You will only get the job if you can successfully communicate that you understand the job, that you can do the job, that you will do the job, and that you pose no risk to this person’s continued employment. (That’s why 30-60-90-day plans are such great job interview tools.) That requires good, clear communication.
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Phone Interview Tips - Number 31: Relax, Be Calm, and Make a Good Impression
One of the easiest ways to make a good impression in your phone interview is to be calm, cool, and collected. To do that, you need to be prepared, organized, and relaxed. Here are some tips that will help you have a great phone interview.
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Phone Interview Tips - Number 28: Small Phone Interview Mistakes That Cause Big Problems
Even if you’ve got all the big factors covered for your phone interview (quiet spot, landline, preparation), there are still some pretty small phone interview mistakes that will get you screened out and marked off their short list. Sometimes it doesn’t take much….phone interviews are real tipping points in the process, and even seemingly insignificant factors can tilt the scale. Some of these mistakes will surprise you. Drinking a glass of water with ice (or anything with ice)r
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Phone Interview Tips – Number 25: How to Get the Face-to-Face Interview
What’s the point of a phone interview? A phone interview is an inexpensive, time-saving way to determine whether or not you are worth the time, effort, and expense of a face-to-face interview. That’s it. For the employer, it’s a screening process: Do you merit further consideration? For you, it’s an obstacle: How can you get past this phone interview and get to the face-to-face?
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Contacting Peggy McKee
Peggy McKee
PHC Consulting
1-888-263-5688
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30/60/90-Day Sales Plan with Audio Coaching
Don't go to another interview without getting the offer!
The 30/60/90-Day Plan turns the interview from an interrogation to a conversation, and helps the hiring manager see you in the job. That’s what gets you the offer!
This product includes:
• A fill-in-the-blank 30/60/90-day plan template
• 3 sample plans
• Over 30 minutes of audio coaching from the sales recruiter
The audio coaching will give you tips for how to present the plan effectively, teach you how using the 80/20 Rule can show the manager you have a strategy for success, and reveal how to use your plan AFTER the interview to cement your job offer.
http://30-60-90-day-sales-plan.com/30-60-90-day-sales-plan-with-audio.htm
The How to Get Into Medical Sales Kit
Helping people land fantastic jobs in medical sales (even people with no experience at all) is packed into this one comprehensive kit.
The kit includes:
• Over 1.5 hours of Peggy’s audio coaching, tips, and techniques
• A power resume template with a killer cover letter
• A “secret weapon” technology sheet
• The key to turning your thank you note into another selling tool
• How to create an effective 30/60/90-day plan that will blow the socks off any hiring manager
Medical sales is a hard career area to break into—but this kit is guaranteed to give you an unfair advantage over all the other candidates.
http://how-to-get-into-medical-sales.com/how-to-get-into-medical-sales-system.htm
LinkedIn Ninja Tricks - Bypass HR and Get the Job
Amateurs post resumes on online job boards...serious professionals get interviews and offers by working LinkedIn. Don’t waste any more time sending resumes to HR departments. Learn the secrets to contacting hiring managers directly with these LinkedIn Ninja Tricks.
In a 53-minute video, you’ll learn Peggy’s systematic contact methods that will show you exactly what to say (and what NOT to say) that will get you responses you’ve only dreamed of. These expert techniques will get you more activity than you’ve ever had in your job search.
http://linkedin-for-jobseekers.com/linkedin-ninja-tricks1.htm