Job Interviewing Skills Beyond the Q & A

Job Interviewing Skills Beyond the Q & A

You’ve conquered the initial phases of the job search, and you have been contacted for an interview! You already know how important it is to present your skills and abilities in ways that directly connect to the position at hand. But, you also know an interview is more than a question-answer session about your specific experiences. This meeting, or series of meetings, is much more comprehensive than a Q & A, so let’s take a look at important areas of focus identified by Nicole Fallon Taylor in her article, “5 Interview Skills That Will Get You Hired,” to help best prepare you for what’s to come.

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Assessing the Job No Matter the Stage Of the Search

Assessing the Job No Matter the Stage Of the Search

As I can’t relate to the multiple offer situation, I almost passed on reading Richard Moy’s article, “4 Crucial Questions You Need to Ask Yourself When Deciding Between Multiple Job Offers.” However, I am a huge fan of transferable skills, so I read it hoping to glean advice applicable not just for managing multiple offers but also to decisions associated with the search process as a whole. My hopes were met. Take a minute to check out considerations I find applicable to many stages of the search.

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How the Great Leaders Truly Inspire Their Teams

How the Great Leaders Truly Inspire Their Teams

Both my husband and I have had the privilege of working for supervisors who are known, by name and deed, around the country. The crazy part of these experiences is that neither of us was aware of the widespread prestige of these people until after working for them for a while. It was an interesting evolution of realization into their greatness as we were drawn to the fields through our own interests, and we educated ourselves in ways that positioned us to pursue vital careers. Then, once in the doors, there was so much attention given to us and what we had to offer our respective teams that the status of our leaders wasn’t even “a thing.”

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Controlling Your Job Search Details

Controlling Your Job Search Details

No matter how much we anticipate and plan for anything in life, the outcome isn’t always what we hoped. For myself, I am quite peaceful about such an outcome if I can look back and see I did every, single thing I could to influence the one I wanted. It’s when, in retrospect, I see where I took a short cut and knew better, or when there was so much to manage I figured “that little detail won’t matter,” that it is difficult to feel settled with an undesirable result.

This basic scenario is frustrating in any situation. Apply it to a job search, and I, personally, might just come undone.

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Resume Formatting Tricks To Support the Screening Skim

Resume Formatting Tricks To Support the Screening Skim

No matter how much time and effort you give to the creation of your resume, the fact is that it isn’t going to receive a lot of attention from a hiring manager or recruiter before a decision is made whether or not to pursue your candidacy. That’s right: The very document into which you pour your heart and soul to communicate a lifetime of work will, initially, receive a glance.

Therefore, it is important you give your resume the right kind of attention to ensure it becomes your ticket past the screening process.

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Marketing Your Candidacy With a Personal Website

Marketing Your Candidacy With a Personal Website

For many, part of the process is also about catching up on the latest ways to incorporate technology into the search. While juggling its many forms to communicate interest, interviews and offers can be its own project, the easy availability of technology can be utilized to a job seeker’s huge advantage.

Miriam Salpeter is among authors who strongly suggest a solid presence on the Web in her article, “4 Reasons Job Seekers Should Have a Personal Website.”

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