Posts Tagged ‘interviewing tips’
CNN – How to Overcome Being Overqualified
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“No Problem, Mon”: A Lesson in a Jamaican Job Search You Can Apply Today
I was at the boat yard last week and got an unexpected reminder on how to conduct a networking based job search from a Jamaican boat worker.
He was an older man with the rough weathered face of someone who has spent a lifetime working in the glare of the sun on the sea. He was repairing [...]
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CNN Money.com – How Age Proof Your Career
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The Pure Useless Terror of the Team Interview
Team interviews have been around for a long time now. Think of the Inquisition.
The darkest group interview I ever had was a time when the group included other applicants seated in a circle with one another along with members of the team. Applicants were asked a number of “self disclosure” questions to see how [...]
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Anger Won’t Get You Anywhere
A few weeks ago, Duncan and I published an article called “How to Network Without Sounding Phony, Lame or Desperate” on the AOL/Careerbuilder site. At last count, there were 73 responses, most of them angry, resentful, hopeless and raging. One commentator simply wrote, “Blah, blah, blah, blah.” How’s that for effectively moving the conversation forward [...]
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Everyone has a great story to tell. What’s yours?
Them: So, tell me about yourself.
You: What do you want to know?
Them: You know, a little bit about your background.
You: Well…I started out as a child…
Them: Zzzzzzz….
Well, maybe not actually snoring. But I did once doze off while listening to a client back in the days when I was a [...]
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How to Give Good Luck a Leg Up
If you’ve been between jobs for, like, an hour, you already know that wishing will get you only so far. In fact, you might have been wishing that you weren’t on the list of people to get laid off. So you know better than just about anyone that wishing has its limitations.
Now. Luck. That could [...]
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