Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Job Search Interviewing

12 Ways to Use the Telephone More Effectively In Your Job Search

May 6, 2011 Career Marketing

  Job seekers frequently suffer from telephone phobia. Knowing how and using the telephone effectively during your job search will make help keep your search moving forward efficiently and productively, ultimately helping you to land a new job faster and more successfully. Out of intimidation, shyness, or a fear of rejection many job seekers will [...]

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How-to Explain In An Interview Why You Were Fired

November 16, 2010 Job Search Interviewing

This is a toughy! If you’ve ever been fired from a job, you know that during job interviews you will be asked  exactly why you are no longer with such and such company. If you are not prepared with an answer, explaining that you were terminated and why you were fired  can be tricky at [...]

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How-to Easily Crack The Hidden Job Market

November 12, 2010 Career Marketing

While it is difficult to identify the original source for this statistic, it has often been said that approximately 80% of all jobs filled are done so in what is known as the “hidden” or “unpublished” job market. These are jobs typically landed through word-of-mouth and referrals as opposed to the hit-or-miss method of answering [...]

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3 Essential Job Search Interview Secrets You Must Know to Quickly Land Your Next Job

November 5, 2010 Job Search Interviewing

The job search interview: it’s one of the most important but least understood aspects of looking for a job. The single most important thing you can do to get a job is to interview. That’s right. You’ve promoted yourself with a stand-out resume, you’ve opened the right doors, attracted the attention of the person with [...]

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How-to Easily Create a Compelling, Branded Elevator Pitch for Your Job Search

September 20, 2010 Career Management

The elevator pitch. You are probably familiar with the term. It is most commonly used to describe the concise 60-second speech that business owners and executives, as well as salespeople, use to describe their business, product, or service to others. More importantly, it is a speech that is delivered in a compelling way that describes [...]

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Salary Negotiation Tips – How-To Raise Your Salary Even In a Competitive Job Market

August 24, 2010 Career Management

Salary Negotiation Tip #1: Know your value and be able to clearly articulate the returns that an employer can expect from hiring you. Never forget that as an employee you are investment. When a company hires you, they are making a financial investment through the compensation and benefits that they provide you (as well as [...]

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Your value proposition – the key to getting interviews

May 25, 2010 Career Marketing

In my business, before I develop and write a resume, I require my clients to complete a fairly comprehensive questionnaire. When these questionnaires are returned to me, I am frequently frustrated by incomplete answers…sometimes just a few sentences to describe five, ten, fifteen years of experience! These clients assume that I have written hundreds of [...]

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