Archive for interview tips
Five Ways to Use Intuition in Everyday Life
In our modern world, we’re moving at such a rapid pace we often miss seeing extraordinary signs and messages that pop up in our daily life. Whether you’re a soldier in Afghanistan, a corporate executive, a parent, spouse, or employee, when you can slow down enough to recognize and listen to your intuition, it can [...]
One-On-One Interview — Part II
by AndreaÂ
* Interview technique building. This will work with you on detailed techniques intended to conquer the weaknesses known using the response  you provided in the simulated interview as a foundation for conversation. The procedures will assist you in building strong answers that state your skills, aptitudes and personality in the best probable light.
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Why a Job Interview is Like a First Date
Have you noticed any similarities between your dating experiences and your job searches?
What these two puzzle parts have in common is a quest for better relationships. Granted, for some of us, both of these personal quests are fraught with frustration.
But in Shawn Graham’s book Courting Your Career, he spins the metaphor in amusing and insightful [...]
Developing Leadership for Growth Companies
Not all executives are leaders. Not all managers are executives. Not all career people are professional.
Top company management usually comes from the ranks of those who sell the core business product-service, not from those on the firing line who deliver it. That’s why in media, programming and news people rarely become management. Since advertising [...]
Backing Your Career Passion
Are you unfulfilled in your job? You are not alone. One-half of US employees are dissatisfied with their jobs, up from two-fifths 10 years ago.
Perhaps it’s time to move on. But where? And will you be successful in your new job? Or would it be a case of “out of the frying pan into the [...]
Getting and Staying Employed in a Shrinking Job Market
To call today’s economy tough is like calling Moby Dick a big fish. Let’s face it, with the threat of double digit unemployment looming ahead it is down right scary for the vast majority of people I hear from each day.
However, if you can stay focused, determined, upbeat and flexible these times offer opportunities for [...]
Leveraging International Experience to Launch a Global Career
The world economy is in flux but emerging economies continue to drive significant growth for global enterprises. Global companies recognize that their best chances for success lie with recruiting managerial talent with international experience – it’s the big resume differentiator.
For students who have studied abroad, this is good news, especially considering the contracting U.S. job [...]
What You Need to Lead – Negotiating Tactics
If you think about it, we’re negotiating on the job all the time. Whether we’re asking for the big promotion, the funding to attend a training or conference, or to take a vacation during “busy” season, we’re in more bargaining situations than we realize at work.
Women, in particular, need as many negotiation tools as possible, [...]
Six Ways to Be a Smart Career Risk Taker
To be highly successful in your career requires that you engage in risk taking. But risk is accompanied by fear–fear that you’ll screw up, fear that others will judge you, and fear of the unknown. Confront your fear and use it as a motivator!
The benefits of being a courageous risk taker are many. If you [...]
Green Careers: Targeting Eco-Friendly Companies
Until fairly recently the main measure of a company’s success was determined by its financial bottom line. Was it making a profit or was it sustaining losses? Although companies have been managing their activities by using their financial profits as their guiding light for a very long time, many stakeholders have sustained losses while the [...]
