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You’ve already heard the most common recommendations: questions that are really designed to show the hiring manager what a great candidate you are. And you should definitely include them. But there’s another great way to build rapport with your interviewer: change the focus from your skills and goals to the company’s needs and wants. These…
When you’re interviewing, you will be asked why you left or are going to leave your job. Here are interview questions, along with sample answers, related to leaving your job, getting fired, and what you have been doing if you’re not currently employed. One of the questions that is typically asked in an interview is…
It’s important to be prepared to respond effectively to the interview questions that employers typically ask at job interviews. Since these questions are so common, hiring managers will expect you to be able to answer them smoothly and without hesitation. You don’t need to memorize an answer, but do think about what you’re going to…
Rosen says the maximum attention span these days is about 15 minutes. Do you have trouble staying focused?If tasks that should take 30 minutes take you an hour to complete, or if you constantly find yourself looking at your phone or checking your Facebook throughout the day, the answer is probably yes. Larry Rosen, Ph.D.,…
You secured the interview, brought your A game, and landed the job. Now comes the hard part: negotiating your salary. “Salary negotiations are like any other type of negotiations — except the words you use can be extremely powerful, since there is a personal aspect to the discussion,” “The negotiation is not over the worth…
side from submitting a resume full of typos, the quickest way to be eliminated from consideration for a new job is making an avoidable interview blunder – like putting your foot in your mouth. “Every year we see more surveys and polls come out listing some of the crazy things that candidates do or say…
If you come into my office for a job interview, I don’t really care “where you see yourself in five years,” or what your top skills and weaknesses are. What I care about is how you feel about time travel. That’s right, time travel. The question I prefer? “If I could take you 300 years…
1. Your Personal and Political Beliefs Work is usually not the place to talk about your views on abortion, hot button topics, incompetent politicians, and politics in general really. You cannot assume that everyone has the same views as you do, because everyone sees things differently. When you share your views on political and societal…
Has your boss been treating you like a bad child? Are you always left feeling like you just don’t measure up? It’s possible that your supervisor may not like you very much. Even worse, he or she could be plotting ways to get rid of you. Here are some tell-tale signs that you aren’t your boss’s favorite…
Looking for a job can be a bit like dating. It can be easy to go online and find a match for a first date, but what happens after that is what matters the most. Will that first date (or first interview) turn into a long-term relationship? Job searching can be hard work. It’s not…