Picture yourself getting ready for your first ever grown-up job interview. You’re in your late teens or early twenties, you’ve got some college experience under your belt, and you’re wearing […]
10 ways to sabotage your job interview
If you’re job search isn’t yielding the results you’d like, chances are you’re sabotaging your own efforts. Over the course of 22 years as a recruiter and 3 years as […]
Confidence: feel it, fake it, or………..flub it
This confidence game isn’t the same as the scam. This one applies to those who have been hunting with no results and are becoming discouraged. Rapidly. Let’s go back to […]
Protect your resume
As a job candidate you need to make sure that no one is sending your resume to a company without your permission! That means your recruiter needs to tell you […]
what to do when you've been fired – part 1
Everyone who’s been fired raise their hand. If your hand is up, (and mine is), we’re in good company. I’m unable to find statistics, but in 25 years of working […]
what to do with a bad interviewer
The only thing that might be more difficult to deal with than an interviewer who asks tough, probing questions is an interviewer who hasn’t a clue how to interview. You […]
Don't Give in to the Desire to Confide
If you’ve ever been in a bad job situation, you have no desire to repeat it. And that’s understandable. However, you don’t want to ever, ever—and I mean NEVER—discuss it […]
Discussing Strengths and Weaknesses in a Job Interview
The strengths and weaknesses topic is universally the one that most interviewees are afraid of being asked, and the question that most interviewers are most likely to ask. Therefore there […]
Discussing Overcoming Obstacles in a Job Interview
This is part two of my TODAY method of preparing for job interviews–discussing obstacles you’ve Overcome. This can seem daunting, but don’t be intimidated because you haven’t climbed Mt. Everest […]
Talking About Duties Of Your Past Positions in a Job Interview
It seems like this should be the easiest one in the world to discuss in an interview, but it’s the one that most interviewees don’t do well. These days many […]