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10 Career Questions You Were Afraid to Ask

March 30, 2010

Today’s post is a guest post from Nikki Ruth, a fellow employment expert who specializes in writing CVs. She shares some great insight on some tough career questions, and the answers you’ll need to succeed. Enjoy!

Career Question Category 1: Job Hunting
1. I have a degree but no work experience. What’s the best thing to do? [...]

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Is This the Perfect Job Interview Close?

January 5, 2010

One of the greatest frustrations with job search is the black box.
You send a resume, make the contacts, follow up, but for the most part, you don’t see what’s going on within the hiring process. If you’re eliminated, you don’t know why. If you move forward, you may get more feedback, but perhaps still not [...]

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Your Kick Butt Job Interview Guide: Best of the Blog 2009

December 30, 2009

Got an interview? Pat yourself on the back.
The hardest part of the job search is convincing people that your background, experience and sparkling personality are worth investigating further.
But it’s no time to rest on your laurels. An interview is a clean slate — and you have to assume you start at zero when you walk [...]

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Use transferable job skills for your job search

November 13, 2009

Today’s post is a guest post by Scot Herrick, one of my favorite fellow career bloggers. Give it a look – it’s great stuff!
When people know I write about jobs and careers on the web, it is natural to get asked at social events about all things job related. So when a friend sat down [...]

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Personal brand: Rethinking the dress code

October 29, 2009

Imagine you’re a hiring manager. You have two candidates: one is decked out in a stylish, freshly pressed business suit, with a snappy tie and shiny, professional shoes. The other is wearing fashionable blue jeans, a light sweater and a sport jacket.
Which would you rather work with?
It doesn’t matter. Because regardless of which of those [...]

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5 ways to know how your job interview really went

October 23, 2009

How did your last job interview go?
Sometimes you have a gut feeling. It went well, it didn’t go so well. You had the answers, you felt unsure.
Since so much of your success has to do with how well you connect with the interviewer, some of the best information you can gather about your interview success [...]

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Not everything is a job search nail: Effective use of your resume

October 5, 2009

Have you joined the Career Mastermind Network? Jump in for “30 Days to a Powerful LinkedIn Presence.”
If you’re trying to fix a hole in the wall, are you going to go after it with a hammer?
Every home improvement project has a general work flow and calls for a specific set of tools. To fix a [...]

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The Do-It-Yourself Behavioral Interview

September 14, 2009

Employers used to ask softball questions.
Of course, they didn’t think they were softballs, but as they started to realize their interviews weren’t predicting success, they switched it up a little.
They moved from “What would you do if…” to “Tell me about a time when…”
And the behavioral interview was born. While a behavioral interview is not [...]

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Back to School, Day 5: How to Ace a Job Interview

August 28, 2009

Today is the last day of this week’s Career Mastermind Week video blitz.  Today, we talk about 3 keys to success in job interviews.  The bottom line — confidence is key #1.

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Your personal “best”: Authenticity and your job search

July 30, 2009

The Career Adventure newsletter has a new look — it’s now the Career Kick Start!  One minute’s worth of immediately useful career advice delivered weekly.  And it’s free, as is the Results Focused Resume ebook (available through August 5).  You can get both here.
Success in a job interview requires your very best suit, your very [...]

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