The Benefits of Informational Interviewing

How to Try On Careers Before You Decide Which Ones to Pursue

Before you go and get all the training or education it requires, or before you go job-hunting for that career, you need to try it on.

This is exactly analogous to shopping at a clothing store and trying on different suits (or dresses) that you see in their window or on their racks. Why do you try them on? Well, the suits or dresses that look terrific in the window don’t always look so hot when you see them on you. The clothes don’t hang quite right, etc.

It’s the same with careers. Ones that sound terrific in books or in your imagination don’t always look so great when you actually see them up close and personal. Continue Reading

5 Essential Steps for Interviewing Like a Boss

Before going into an interview, it is a good idea to prepare yourself.  Learn five steps to help with this process in the following post.

Interviewing can be stressful, but it’s a skill that can be learned. Follow these five easy steps, inspired by the new book The Work/Life Balance: Resetting Your Goals, to get you started: 1. Write down your story, and write down their story Before you interview—and, for that matter, before you

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5 Essential Steps for Interviewing Like a Boss

Most Common Interview Questions and Answers

Meghan Ivarsson

Here is a list of questions you are likely to hear when you have a job interview. As you get older and have more interviews you will find that the answers to these questions simply roll off of your tongue. But until that time, it is wise to examine potential questions and give some thought as to how you may answer them, so that you will not be caught off guard during your interview. Continue Reading

Interview Questions: Some Not So Good to Ask

When considering what questions to ask in your next interview, be sure to give them careful thought or you may appear not to want a job opportunity.

It’s often said there are no bad questions, but a new OfficeTeam survey suggests otherwise. Human resources (HR) managers were asked to recount the most unusual or surprising question they have heard a job seeker ask during an interview. Here are some of their responses: Continue Reading

Q&A Interview Question

• Question:

I read your article, Five rules to encourage Optimism and to discourage Negativity Don’t Bring Your Baggage Into The Job Interview. (you can find this article at: http://jobsforveterans.military.com/1207/rules-encourage-optimism-discourage/)

Your note about reading between the lines on a job announcement may be a bit misleading. When you go into a job interview and presume to know what the company really wants vs. what they put in print would seem to me to be pretty arrogant. I’ve tried that and have been cut short in the interview. Nobody likes someone to come into their house and tell them how you’re going to fix things for them when they didn’t ask you to. Continue Reading

Interview Questions and Answer

Too Old and Too Many Jobs

• Question

I retired 9 years ago after a good, solid 20 year career – retiring as finance executive. Earned two management jobs at two other large, high visibility organizations. I have a Masters degree and am a Certified Management Accountant.

I made the mistake of going to work for a company that was broke. I helped turn them around and put them in good financial condition. I was offered a job by the guy who’d been hired to lead the turn around and, off I went to another sad little company. Then…. I did another one, and another and another. Continue Reading

Reaching Your Interviewer on a Personal Basis

Ken Sundheim, CEO of KAS Placement Recruitment

As a job seeker or any business professional, a great deal of your success relies on how effectively you can deal with others.  There is more to interviewing than simply answering job related questions.

The most effective meetings occur when the two parties reach each other on a personal basis and, when done the cohesion creates a stir of positive energy in the room which is going to increase performance, heighten perceived intelligence and make the meeting enjoyable. Continue Reading

What Employers Want: 12 HR Hot Buttons

Dawn Dugan, Salary.com contributing writer

The competition is fierce in today’s job market, and standing out in the crowd is more important — and challenging — than ever before.

How do you know you’re giving employers exactly what they are looking for? This article explores 12 human resources hot buttons. Continue Reading

The 5 Best Ways to Approach Interviewing

Ken Sundheim, CEO of KAS Placement Recruitment

There is no one correct way to approach interviewing, however there are some universal implementations that any job seeker can use to further their chances of getting the job that they want.

While interviewing can be difficult and is a time that is full of rejection and uncertainty, follow the below approach and you should see a significant increase in your abilities: Continue Reading

Become the Solution To The Job Interviewer’s Problem

Carole Martin, The Interview Coach

The absolute worst way to go to an interview is with the attitude of: “Please, please – hire me.”

When you go to an interview with that attitude you appear desperate. And even though you actually may be desperate in a difficult job market, you don’t want to appear that way.

The demeanor and attitude that you bring to the interview will set the tone for the entire interview.

Let’s look at it from the employer’s/interviewer’s point of view. Continue Reading