Kick-in-the-Pants Job Search

Believe it: three obstacles will hold you back from your ideal job – your resume, you, and your job-search methods.  There’s no hidden formula; there’s no bribery needed; there’s no one standing in front of employment — other than YOU!

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Surviving Competency Based Interviews

If you think that job interviews are an art rather than a science you’re not alone – most interviewers would agree.However, a different kind of assessment, the competency-based interview, is becoming increasingly popular because many think it’s more accurate and reliable than the traditional job interview we all know and love.

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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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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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How to be a Contender in a Job Interview

You’ve ended up with a job interview, congratulations, you now have a chance to charm a prospective employer face-to-face.  Job interview is the most essential task within the employment seeking course of action.  Employment interviewing by no means appears to get any simpler – even if you go on much more job interviews than you

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What Not to Say in an Interview

Interviews are always pretty difficult. You’re nervous. You don’t have a lot of personal space. You’re forced to answer multiple questions back to back with no time to rest. And your whole professional future seems to depend on this one tiny thing. Terrifying! So it’s easy to understand why so many interviewees depend on cliches

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