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What You Can Do to Walk in Prepared to Win 1. Know your audience Remember when you were a kid and were trying to get the keys to the family car? You studied both parents at the moment,...
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What You Can Do to Walk in Prepared to Win 1. Know your audience Remember when you were a kid and were trying to get the keys to the family car? You studied both parents at the moment,...
Now That Someone Unimagined Your Job For You How does someone unimagine your job for you? To put it simply: they fire you, downsize you, lay you off (what does that mean exactly?),...
Common Resume and Interview Mistakes You Don’t Want to Make Imagine how many candidates that recruiters and hiring managers see annually. Now, imagine how many of them bring their...
So Then Why Are Other People Getting What I Need? After we lost a job, it seemed that everyone had somewhere to go each day but us. Driving next to others, they seemed like they were on...
“Lose it? I didn't lose it. It's not like, "Whoops! Where'd my job go?" -Lester Burnham as played by Kevin Spacey in American Beauty Lester was right. In the classic scene at their...
In No Time Flat…. Your resume is looking good. The cover letter reads well, sounds compelling and paints you to be the only one alive who can fill the available position. So, now what...
Which Means What Exactly? The concept of highest and best use (HBU) originated with early economists who conceptualized the idea of maximum productivity. One of the earliest citations...
Or How to Get Hired By Being Yourself Let’s start with a sense of humor. It is well understood that hiring managers primarily choose a candidate based upon a perceived chemistry....
What’s Real and What’s Not Real About the Job Search So much is written about the search for work today. Much of it is helpful, but only some of it is true. Other of it is more myth...