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The 4 Things You Must Do to Prepare for an Interview
Tweet Share on Facebook September 13, 2012 CommentPreparing job-search materials is often difficult and time-consuming, and the process doesn't stop once you've scored an interview. To make the best possible impression, follow these four steps to prepare for the conversation and show you're the best candidate for the job:
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10 Career Facts You'll Learn After College
Tweet Share on Facebook September 13, 2012 CommentOur career paths seem so cut and dry when we're children. When asked what we want to be when we grow up, our responses are simple: teacher, firefighter, doctor. But as we grow up and head to college, we're exposed to all sorts of other career options in fields we never have had exposure to in a direct way. While we work to earn degrees in fields we're interested in pursuing, we're still left a bit unprepared for the corporate world upon graduation.
Here are 10 facts your college degree didn't prepare you for when graduating:
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The Perfect Recipe for Handling Negative Feedback at Work
Tweet Share on Facebook September 13, 2012 CommentLet's be real here: No one likes negative feedback. Criticism in the workplace can be especially painful. After all, we all want to do a good job. Hearing that you've fallen short of expectations can be a serious blow to the ego. Even worse, it can create all kinds of stress and fear as you suddenly begin to second-guess yourself at every turn.
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10 Lies We Tell Ourselves About Networking
Tweet Share on Facebook September 12, 2012 CommentTake a minute to think about the successful people you know and what makes them successful. Chances are they are masterful networkers and they did this by finding their own way to build mutually beneficial relationships. Employed or unemployed, introverted or extroverted, these are some of the most popular excuses people make for not networking. Your challenge is to get out of your house or your cube and meet people.
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What to Do After Your Job Interview
Tweet Share on Facebook September 12, 2012 CommentSo you've had a job interview and now you're waiting to hear back from the employer. Now what? Do you just sit and wait, or should you be doing anything in the interim? The answer is a little bit of both.
These seven steps will help keep your candidacy strong, while also keeping you from going crazy with suspense.
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3 Reasons You'd Need to Use a Functional Resume
Tweet Share on Facebook September 11, 2012 CommentNo luck on the job front? You might want to rethink your resume format. While traditional resumes are generally a safe route, a functional resume could highlight your strengths more effectively, depending on where you are in your career.
Unlike traditional resumes, functional resumes allow you to group your work history by skills rather than in chronological order. For instance, check out this excerpt from a sample resume via the Peirce College's career guide:
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5 Ways to Find a Scam in an Online Job Ad
Tweet Share on Facebook September 11, 2012 CommentIt might surprise you, but online job boards are targets for scams and spam. For job seekers desperate for a job—any job—it can be easy to be fooled, especially when the gig seems too good to be true.
Here are five things to keep an eye out for when you're applying for jobs on online job boards.
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Tricks for Decoding the Thorniest Interview Questions
Tweet Share on Facebook September 11, 2012 CommentThere's more to an interview than just answering questions. In fact, often the answers you give are less important than the inferences that an interviewer makes from them. If you understand this, you can demonstrate that you have the strong communications skills that so many people claim, but far fewer actually possess.
A good interviewer is trained to get to know a candidate's personality, temperament, self-confidence, overall maturity, and more. These are qualities that can't be ascertained directly, but make a key difference in hiring decisions. Here are some ways that they may go about it:
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Why Today's Interview Process Is So Difficult
Tweet Share on Facebook September 10, 2012 CommentSought-after jobs often come with the most difficult, rigorous, and extensive interview processes. Even some of the least-sought roles are weighed down by arduous interview procedures that put the candidate through the intellectual wringer. Methods include phone interviews, group/panel interviews, daylong interviews with multiple people, group discussions with other interviewers, stress interviews, assessment tests, written case studies, and more.
Whether applying for a part-time merchandising role at the local convenience store or submitting your resume for a VP-level position at a major software firm, it seems today's interview processes have ramped up to a whole new level of intensity.
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Stop Stressing These 7 Elements of Your Job Search
Tweet Share on Facebook September 10, 2012 CommentJob hunting is stressful, but job seekers often make it more stressful than it needs to be, by agonizing over details that most employers don't care about at all. Here are seven of the most common things that job seekers often stress over—but shouldn't spend any time worrying about.
