The year-end review offers an ideal opportunity to enhance your career in the upcoming year. These five tips can help you get the most from the meeting: 1. Review. Find your original job description and evaluate each line to determine how you performed. Using a scale from one to…
Sometimes, it seems that we just aren’t lucky… that no matter how hard we work, we just can’t get a break. This is especially true in an area important to all of us: the job search. Well, time to make your own luck! Following are…
So you got the interview, you feel like you aced it—now what? This is the stage that so many people forget. It’s incredibly important to follow up after an interview. Not only does it show courtesy and politeness, it shows that you genuinely cared about the…
Throughout your career, you will participate in many, many job interviews. In all of these interviews, there are a few questions you will hear time and time again. What are your strengths? What are your weaknesses? Why should we hire you? Even though these questions are…
Job searches are never much fun, but when you're just starting out and don't have much – or any – experience, it's often hard to know where to start. How can you position yourself to get hired when you're brand new to the workforce? 1. If your…
Scoring an interview is cause for celebration. A company sees you as a competitive candidate and you have a chance to get your foot in the door! Your job search is not over yet though… not even close. Now, it’s time to show your future…
Study after study is released with statistics about the job search to make you cringe. First, job seekers don’t know how to behave in interviews, then they don’t know how to write resumes; are you doing all these things wrong, too? While there are many reasons…
“If you don’t go up to bat, you can’t get a hit,” is a much-cited cliché. A corollary to this reality, is that, if you go up to bat and put yourself on the line, you won’t always get the job; the order; the client;…
Searching, applying and landing the right job for you can take months, if not years, these days. Considering this, it’s not surprising that many job seekers get burnt out on the entire process after a few months. Whether you’re happily employed, just starting the search…
No matter their experience, many interviewees sabotage their chances of having a successful job interview because they over-think, or don’t think enough because they are too consumed with worry. To prevent the unnecessary and destructive anxiety that you feel leading up to your interview, consider…