While preparing for your interview, you run over your answers to the standard questions, check to make sure all of your paperwork is intact, look in the mirror to ensure a presentable image, and make sure you leave yourself enough time to arrive 10 minutes early. What you don’t realize, however, is that this preparation [...]
If you’re job hunting, chances are you have been scouring every reputable publication, in print as well as online, for valuable, potentially employment-earning tips, tricks, and tactics to put to good use if you’re one of the lucky few to score an interview. In this economy and given the widespread job loss across the country, [...]
So, you have a beautifully prepared resume, get a phonecall, and are asked to come in for a ‘chat’. You can do the job well and they seem interested in hiring your talent. The question is, do you want the job? Ask the interviewer for a break down of what the job entails, from the [...]
An interview is a potential employer’s chance to get to know you. Are you right for the position? Will you be a good fit in the company? These are important qualities to be aware of before a company will hire you. The question then becomes, how far can an interviewer go to get relevant information [...]
One of the more dreaded questions in an interview is that of when they inquire into your expected pay. Money is almost always a sticky subject to discuss, and no one wants to be thrown out of the running because they’re seen as being too expensive. Nor do you want to be perceived as one [...]
