5 Bad Habits To Avoid While Interviewing

Something extremely important for job seekers to keep in mind when interviewing for any position at any level within a company are their behaviors and their manners.  It is vital that job seekers put their best foot forward when they are interviewing for jobs.  Some executive level people may refuse to fill out an application form when

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Is That Your Real Phone Number and Email Address?

Something I don’t see often but do remember coming across when I was hiring were resume submissions that had fake email addresses and phone numbers on them.  The problem with this is that when you want to interview them, you cannot reach them and they lose out on possibly being hired.  The Applicants either mistyped

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Should you move before you have a job?

I remember after I had graduated from college I couldn’t wait to move to a new city and start my career.  I was hopeful that there would be tons of jobs waiting for me when I arrived in Austin Texas.  Someone had said that it was a booming market for recent college graduates and that

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Interviews are all about your confidence level

I was remembering this weekend when I was hunting for a job years ago and wasn’t that confident in myself.  I was sitting in the lobby of a company and they were doing back to back interviews.  Because they were back to back interviews, I knew that the people interviewing candidates would be tired and

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Your Job Search Can Be A Hard-Fought Campaign

In a recent edition of The Wall Street Journal, columnist Gerald Seib wrote that the campaign against terrorism is “slow and hard for good reason.” After spending a day providing advice to participants in a job fair in Fort Worth, Texas, I sensed that the nation’s other war — getting America back to work —

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