Phone Interview Tips Phone interviews can be tough. With the lack of visual communication, you must be able to rely on auditory feedback and be disciplined enough to keep focus. We have compiled this handy guide on phone interview preparation to help ease your fears. With these interviewing tips, you will be able to face
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The Art Of The Online Résumé Michael Shilleh, a 24-year-old recruiter with New York employment search firm Mergis Group, sifts through thousands of online résumés, mostly from applicants for financial-services jobs. Those who profess experience in key areas such as fixed-income derivatives are most likely to pass through his electronic filter. If only he had
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Recruiters’ Top 10 Complaints Caitlin McLaughlin, global head of campus recruiting for Citigroup Markets and Banking (C), will sometimes surprise MBA students by starting off an interview with a question that has little to do with their experience in the business world or as a student at their particular school. She’ll glance at the interests
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Job-Hunting? You Have 10 Minutes If you’re hunting for a new job, you’ve only got 10 minutes to make your best impression, according to a survey released this month by Robert Half Finance and Accounting, one of the world’s best-known recruiting firms. Hiring managers polled said it takes them just 10 minutes to form an
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How to best prepare for the job interview We spend so much time and energy in our job searches. Getting a powerful resume together, networking, doing research on the Internet, identifying employers, getting names and addresses of hiring managers, writing cover letters, mailing resumes, doing follow up, and wondering why we get so few responses.
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4 steps to your dream job — now The issue: An estimated 80 percent of companies use technology to help scan resumes and store the data future use. The key to success is using the right strategies to get noticed. What you should do: In simple terms — your resume needs keywords! Electronic processing systems
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Pros and cons of working from home by Vishal P. Rao and featured on Lifehack.org There are many reasons for setting up office at home. One might need to be with the children or maybe saving office rent is a requirement. Just like there are innumerable reasons for working from home similarly there are many
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Older job hunter’s advantage? Experience The job market is changing. Many older individuals stay in the workplace past traditional retirement age, and others return to work after they officially retire. This shift in the work force is great news for both businesses and mature job seekers, especially since older workers are some of the most
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Hip E-mail Addresses Bad for Resumes Finding that perfect snarky, witty, oh-so-cool nickname to attach to your e-mail address, the one that fits you like your fave jeans, can be a creative coup. But alas, job-seeking, the hip moniker might be a career killer. A new study finds that electronic resumes linked to job candidates
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10 flagrant grammar mistakes that make your resume and you look stupid These days, we tend to communicate via the keyboard as much as we do verbally. Often, we’re in a hurry, quickly dashing off emails with typos, grammatical shortcuts (I’m being kind here), and that breezy, e.e. cummings, no-caps look. It’s expected. It’s no
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5 steps to let your dream job find you Posted by Mario Sundar in web 2.0 marketing, blog conversation, marketing tools. trackback Just earlier today, I read this interesting piece on the changing face of today’s barrier less digital economy (a la “World is Flatâ€) on CNN. The article highlights how the CV/resume has evolved
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Interviewing and Landing the Perfect Job! Interviewing, occupational, and customer service skills are not something you are born with – they are usually learned by watching others. The interviewing process can be extremely uncomfortable and sometimes even scary to those that are unfamiliar, but here are some great tips in learning how to “land that
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A Simple Way To Increase Your Job Search Success If you’re feeling discouraged about your job search, you might achieve better results with one simple change to your process: diversify your approach. Polls indicate that more than half the people who employed only one strategy to look for jobs lost their momentum and abandoned their
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Spring cleanup of your résumé will be helpful In order to help you “spring clean” your résumé, Dear Sam will be presenting client case studies all month to provide readers with strategies to make their résumés more effective and yield stronger results in their own searches. To view the before-and-after résumés, please visit www.dearsamonline.com/cincy. CLIENT
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Five ways to do better in phone interview by Penelope Trunk, Brazen Careerist The last phone interview I did was for my job at the Boston Globe. And let me just confess that I wasn’t that great in the interview, and I stressed a lot afterwards about not getting the job. But, of course, I
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