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It’s not about me, it’s about you…the 20 questions you need to ask in a job interview
One of the most important, but often overlooked parts of the interview process are the questions a candidate should be prepared to ask a potential employer. In this article, Marc Cenedella does a great job of highlighting some key questions you should considering asking when moving through the interview process. Not all of them will fit in every situation, but they are a good starting point. The key is to show your potential employer that ...
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When is the best time to start looking for a new job?
Love this article. I think Luke is right on here. It never hurts to keep your eyes and options open. If nothing else, you have the opportunity to build another connection, dialogue on current issues facing your industry and potentially get inside the walls of your competition from a product and a business plan perspective. I do a lot of work in the employee benefit arena and making these types of connections early is parallel ...
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8 Most Common Interview Questions – With 8 Best Answers
The following is a nice article that highlights some of the questions you might be asked through the interview process. The questions are rather generic but I like that because they are often asked in a variety of ways and the generality used here should help spur thoughts about other ways they might come up. Just make sure to practice your responses to each. You get one shot…nailing the answers to these questions could really ...
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Don’t Let Today’s Job Interview Catch You Off Guard!
By Alesia Benedict, CPRW, JCTC GetInterviews.com Typically interviews occur in phases, often starting with a phone interview, and progressing along to a first and, hopefully, a second interview. However, for many different reasons, not all companies will follow that traditional approach. By preparing yourself for more complex questions about the company and your work experience, as well as for the use of new interviewing approaches and technologies, you will stand out from the competition during ...
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What Does Your Online Reputation Say About You
What does your online reputation say about you? Have you “Googled®” yourself lately? Perhaps there was a time you did a search for someone that you were or have been close to. Were you shocked at some of the information you turned up? The internet is an amazing source of information, but the internet also doesn’t forget much. It’s like that saying, “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas,” unless it was put on Facebook®, Twitter®, YouTube®, etc. Nothing at all ...
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Your Resume Shouldn’t Play Games
Why unconventional resumes drive hiring managers and recruiters nuts. By Lisa Vaas Steve Silberberg is into a lot of things: certified Wilderness First Responder; published in scientific journals; and, according to his database-driven, configurable, searchable online resume, maintains a collection of over 2,100 air sickness bags. Everybody hates this resume. Only about five hiring managers over the years have refrained from requesting a standard Word resume, “even though I wrote an RTF generator ...
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We can’t all be Robin Williams
Robin Williams turns 60 on Thursday and I nearly died laughing watching the five minutes of his segment on "Inside the Actor's Studio" — all before James Lipton got a chance to ask his first question: Click below to watch the segment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evq8wnvTC3M&feature=player_detailpage#t=96sfirst I've written before about the importance of smiling on the phone, or psyching yourself up before an interview, or getting a mirror so you have someone to smile back at you ...
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Do You Need More Training?
If you feel as if you've looked at every job posting on earth and you still can't find one your skills match up with, then it's time to develop some new skills. This may be the perfect opportunity to go back to school, or at least add some challenging night classes. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do. - Goethe Building career skills: Look internally first. Are ...
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Know What You Want Out of a New Job
What do you really want out of a job? Have you ever asked yourself that? It’s one of the first steps each prospective job searcher needs to understand. In this current economy, most employees are just happy to have a job, but at the very basic level of any new or potential job search is understanding what makes us happy in our work. We all know people who say they wake up each morning ...
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Good Article-Check it out! Write Better Posts!
As a recruiter, you wouldn’t tolerate a candidate’s resume riddled with typos, run-on sentences, grammatical errors and missing punctuation, would you? Didn’t think so. Why, then, do so many recruiters seem resigned to cold, dull, error-filled and totally unappealing job descriptions? Freelance writer Alisdair Murray, based in Bromley, Kent, U.K., specializes in writing job descriptions and advertisements for recruiting firms and hiring managers, and has encountered more than his share of terrible job descriptions. He said ...
