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Conquering the Phone Interview!
Develop a peaceful area to receive a phone call and have both current résumé and your collection of facts and statistics about the company at your fingertips. It is imperative that you don't appear hearing-impaired. If the dog is barking or the baby is squealing you will send the wrong message. You wouldn't believe the amount of executives who feature the Grateful Dead during a phone interview.
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Those Pesky Interview Questions
For those who believe that interviewing is just a matter of schmooze and that you can "wing it" check out the questions below. My colleague, Billie Sucher, gathered some tough interview questions and I'd like to do the same here at CareerBoard. Remember... interviewing is not the time to think... it's the time to perform. Send us some of YOUR tough questions!
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Negotiations Begin with the Interview
Present yourself as the solution to a problem. Every job opening represents a problem the employer is trying to solve. The problem may be a positive one, such as trying to keep up with strong sales leads, but it's just as much a problem for the employer as a negative one, such as trying to breathe new life into a failing product line. Focus on identifying the employer's problem; then you can show how hiring you will be the perfect solution.
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When You Don't Get Hired & It's Not Your Fault!
Everyone understands disappointment but I don't believe anything causes a job candidate to lose confidence as much as submitting a great resume, sporting a good-looking interview outfit, holding a compelling interview, passing the drug test, learning that your references were called and then waiting...for the job offer that never comes.
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Resume Miscalculations & Just Plain Mistakes
Lose the Personal Qualities & Fluff... Motivated, award-winning, results-oriented, trustworthy, enthusiastic, flexible, resourceful are great character traits but are meaningless when written about oneself in a resume. Today's employers want concrete definition. Summaries of Qualifications sections filled with platitudes such as "recognized for consistent dedication, hard work and reliability" and "effective communicator" cause employers to roll their eyes. Every resume book from the 1980's and 1990's featured these.
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Job Search Blunders That Sabotage Offers
A well-planned, strategic job history is not taught in school. I have yet to see a candidate with a Bachelor of Science in Job Search or a Master of Arts in Career Management. Ironically one can get an education in so many vocations that choosing a major is much like facing a menu with too many selections. Selecting a generic or even a job-specific major, many graduates leave campus without a clue about what job to pursue or where to even begin, and throughout their lifetimes, since the rules keep changing, no one but seasoned experts seem to possess the answers to state of the art job search.
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Ten Steps in Getting Started in Job Search
Know Your Aptitudes, Talents and Preferences - Professionals are much like physicians in a hospital. There are ER docs who are faced paced and like the action, and there are brain surgeons who prefer quiet methodical work. What kind of doc would you be?
Thank you to Janice Worthington of Worthington Career Services for contributing these articles.