Making a great first impression is a crucial part of your job search. Why? Because changing a person’s or company’s opinion of you, once it has been established, is very difficult to near impossible to do. Interviewers will never admit it but, for many, the basis of...
A national office supply company has made its marketing campaign around it for years…the concept of the “easy button”. The idea is both basic and genius at the same time. If you make something simple to use or easy to do it is more valuable or appealing to the person....
It is easy to become (or feel) emotionally raw while being interviewed. The stress of finding a new job (or even worse if you are in unemployment) paired with a sleepless previous night, and the anguish over having to talk about yourself can be overwhelming. It is...
I don’t know if you have been caught up in the craze the last couple of years, but it has been hard not to see the t-shirts and posters around stating “Keep Calm and Stay (fill in the blank)”. The origin of this saying goes all the way back to the British in World War...
For some, it may be the “luck of the draw”, or a failure to acknowledge holes in a persons’ job search. For others, however, it is not merely a way to rationalize a failure to land a coveted job, but rather the actual reason for rejection. One of the most common...
It would be almost impossible to go through your entire job search without saying “No” at some point to a prospective employer. Your need to say “No” may come early in the process, such as during a phone screen when you find out that the pay rate is not acceptable. It...
In today’s world, Interviewers arrive at each interview expecting you to be fully prepared for each question that they expect to ask. While, for the Interviewer, it is nice to see that a candidate is ready for the interview this does not, however, allow them to see...
During the course of your interactions with a prospective employer, you will interact with several different individuals. Each person, to a varying degree, will have some influence regarding whether you are going to receive an offer rather than a regret. It is an ever...
The title of this week’s column may seem like a really curious one. What do you mean…Joe? An interview without questions…that is impossible! Well, sometimes a Job Seeker gets into this near impossible situation where a Hiring Manager just does not ask direct questions...
Many Job Seekers have the mistaken belief that participating in an interview is a one-way conversation. You are asked questions and you answer them. For the most part, however, the days of the dominant Interviewer is long gone and Hiring Managers expect you to ask...
