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3 Ways Candidates Can Prepare for a Video Interview

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Life in most parts of the world has returned to normal after more than two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Zoom grew by 2900%, making it one of the fastest-growing applications in 2020 and 2021. Video interviewing is one of the changes that are here to stay. So before you get on that zoom, be sure to prep so there are no problems with your technology. ELIMINATE DISTRACTIONS The best...
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3 Strikes, You’re Out! – Tips for Post-Interview Follow Up

After completing an interview, your next step should always be to send a thank-you email to the interviewer or hiring manager. Since hiring managers are very busy people, sometimes it can take them a few days or even a week to respond to your email. But what happens when the hiring manager isn’t responding at all? How do you know when to stop reaching out? In honor of baseball being back, I’m goin...
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How to Deal With Negative People

By Geoffrey James (Inc.com) Staying positive and optimistic can help you become a happier person both at work and at home. Unfortunately, there are many everyday obstacles that can get in the way of maintaining this positivity. One of those obstacles can be the negativity of other people. Keep reading to learn how to deal with complainers and how to make sure they don't drag you down. How to Deal ...
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5 Avoidable Job Interview Mistakes

You only have one chance to make a good first impression in an interview.  You are being evaluated on the way you talk, dress, and even smell from the second you enter the room. What you do, and even what you don't do, can be the difference between landing a new job or heading back to the job boards. Before you schedule your next interview, consider these 5 common mistakes job seekers make in...
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Practice Makes Perfect: How to Rehearse for Your Next Job Interview

By Caroline M.L. Potter There are a lot of steps that usually happen before you get to the interview portion of your job search: writing a resume, networking, compiling your references. Most folks are able to put a lot of effort into getting the interview, but many fall apart during the actual interview. Why? Poor planning and a lack of practice. Instead of winging it, or relying solely on your pr...
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5 Questions Great Job Candidates Ask

By Jeff Haden, INC.com Be honest. Raise your hand if you feel the part of the job interview where you ask the candidate, "Do you have any questions for me?" is almost always a waste of time. Thought so. The problem is most candidates don't actually care about your answers; they just hope to make themselves look good by asking "smart" questions. To them, what they ask is more impo...
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Gracefully Decline a Job Offer

Original Post: The LaddersBy Andrew Klappholz It sounds too good to be true. One highly touted job seeker was hit with a perfect financial services storm: job offers from Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase and Blackrock — all at the same time. This was the situation facing one client of career coach Connie Thanasoulis-Cerrachio, a partner at SixFigureStart and former head of staffing for Merrill Lynch...
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Didn’t Get the Job? Don’t Be Shy… Ask Why!

By Tim Estiloz, Posted Dec 7th 2010 AOL Jobs You go in for a job interview and do what you believe is a killer performance that should nail you the position, only to find out a short time later, after no call backs, that someone else got the position. Along with the natural disappointment at losing the job, it's also natural to wonder why your qualifications and presentation fell short. You can't ...
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Seven Tips for Reentering the Workforce

Original Post: By NicoleWilliams.com staff Reentering the workforce can be a challenge no matter how good your excuse is: volunteering, working or studying abroad, starting a family, caring for a sick relative or coping with your own illness, or investing in your future by completing a graduate degree. Your search can be made more difficult by the poor economy and a bias against people who have la...
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What to Expect on a Second and Third Interview

Original Post: By Darryl K. Taft, The Ladders “Understanding the typical schedule and purpose of each round can prepare you to face each and give you an advantage in the hiring process.” Before you hear the words, “You’re hired,” you will typically sit through three separate interview sessions … at least. You prepared for the first interview. So you’re prepared for the second and third interviews,...
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The Power of a Simple Thank-You Note

Original Post: Peter Vogt, Monster Senior Contributing Writer When my wife was hired for her first real job after graduating from college, she was remembered and saluted by her new supervisor for one seemingly small step she had taken during the interviewing process: She was the only applicant of several interviewed who had sent a thank-you note after her interview. It seems amazing, but it's true...
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Don’t Let a Bad Attitude Ruin Your Job Search

While a lengthy job search might be unpleasant, expressing negative thoughts to a recruiter or hiring manager about the search process or a past company can cost you the position. Businesses look for individuals with a positive outlook and a high level of excitement. People want to collaborate with others who are optimistic and enthusiastic about their work and exhibit these qualities visibly...
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Use The Holidays To Find A Job

Original Post: Susan Adams, Forbes.com, 10/19/10 You can and should. One reason: You'll have less competition then. When my friend Matthew turned down an offer for a lucrative marketing position two weeks ago (it conflicted with the noncompete agreement from his old employer), he told me he couldn't find another job until the new year. That's just the way it is in his business, he said. Once the h...
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Top 10 Online Job Search Tips

Original Post: CareerBuilder.com While the popularity of online job boards puts millions of jobs at one's fingertips, it has also made the job applicant pool that much bigger.  For this reason, national job search sites and the Internet as a whole have gotten a bad rap from some industry professionals as an ineffective job seeker tool; on the contrary, the Internet actually can be a great re...
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What if They Want Me to Sign a Non-Compete Agreement?

By Jack Chapman - Original Post: The Ladders.com Don't sign that non-compete agreement. A non-compete agreement may look harmless enough, but if you're not careful it can cost you a lot of time and money in the long run. Here's an example: A college student had an internship at an ad agency. She signed a routine non-compete and was subsequently hired as a full-time employee. Two years later a form...
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13 Ways Your Resume Can Say ‘I’m Unprofessional’

Hiring pros share the faux pas they find in real resumes, including wacky e-mail addresses, defunct phone numbers and cookie-cutter templates. Original Post By Lisa Vaas, The Ladders No offense, thebigcheese@domain.com, but if nobody has told you yet, we’re telling you now: That e-mail address is not making you look particularly professional. Unprofessional e-mail addresses are just one way of se...
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Keys to Researching Your Next Employer

Original Post: By Beth Braccio Hering, CareerBuilder Writer "I know right away when a candidate doesn't know the current news about our company," says Chris Brabec, director of leadership talent acquisition for Western Union. "If you don't know the CEO is retiring, or if a company made a big acquisition recently, that's not a good sign. If a candidate can't tell me what the company does (or think...
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Where Are The Coolest Jobs Hiding?

Original Post: Phil Rosenberg, reCareered.com Yes to each and every one of those possibilities of where cool jobs are. Sure, some jobs are hidden, but most are out there. Cool jobs are everywhere but take different strategies to find them, depending on where they are found. The first question to consider is what’s a cool job? Is it cutting edge, flexible, telecommuting, career enhancing, educatio...
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Are You Getting Interviews, But Not the Job?

Original Post: How to Diagnose Where You Might Be Going Wrong By John Rossheim, Monster Senior Contributing Writer Your resume has earned you interviews with several employers over the past year. That's impressive, especially in this economy. But none of those interviews has yielded a job offer. You've done the standard interview preparation. You've shown up on time and dressed in appropriate in...
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Step-by-Step Guide to Negotiating a Great Salary

By Kim Lankford, Monster Contributing Writer Here's a secret: Employers rarely make their best offer first, and job candidates who negotiate generally earn much more than those who don't. And a well-thought-out negotiation makes you look like a stronger candidate -- and employee. "We found that those people who attempted to negotiate their salary in a constructive way are perceived as more favor...
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The Interview Was Awesome. Now What?

By Don Straits Original post: The Ladders Thank-you letters are so boring. You feel compelled to write one because the career books, career counselors, and HR managers tell you that’s what you are supposed to do. If you don’t do it, then you failed to show professional courtesy. If you do send one, it is rarely the defining factor that gets you the job. Furthermore, they all sound alike. Yawn. ...
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Can Recruiters Find YOU? 5 Online Methods to Borrow

Joe Turner was a recruiter for more than 15 years, so job seekers often ask him for advice on how to meet recruiters and how to make working with recruiters a beneficial experience. His reply is not always what they want to hear: Top recruiters don't want to meet you. They don't want you to call them, and they don't want you to send your resume to them. They are already wired into their own netwo...
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LinkedIn Profiles: Avoid the Most Common Mistakes

By C.G. LynchPublication: CIO.com  In the midst of the recession, many job seekers have spent more time on LinkedIn to connect with colleagues, customers and partners in an effort to land a new gig. Unfortunately, many people commit common errors in their LinkedIn profiles that cost them new opportunities, says Jason Alba, CEO of JibberJobber , a company that provides web-based tools for managing ...
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Job Search and Online Presence : The Ultimate Guide

The blog site “The Applicant” has been talking about online job searches.  They wanted to create a guide that talks about different platforms and how you can utilize each of them.  Gone are the days when people used to knock on doors to pick up job application forms. More people have started utilizing the power of internet and harnessing the social aspect of it via popular platforms such as twi...
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Where Does Your Resume Really Go When You Apply Online?

By Barbara Safani  We'd all like to believe that when we send our resume via a job board or a company Web site that there is someone eagerly waiting on the other side ready to read every word of it. But these days, job applicants are lucky if an actual person is reading any of it, at least on the initial screening.  As companies continue to be inundated with resumes, more and more employers are tu...
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Author Dave DeMelo: How To Get Out of an Interview

I have been an executive recruiter for the past 5 years and throughout my tenure in this profession I have heard a plethora of excuses as to why a candidate cannot attend an interview.  Often times, the cancellation comes the day of the interview, leaving recruiters like myself to scramble and put out the fire with our clients.  There have been instances where a candidate has to cancel an intervie...
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Cultivating a Great Recruiter Relationship

In today’s bleak employment market, many job seekers are turning to professional recruitment firms for help. It’s a smart move, unless the candidate goes into the relationship thinking that their sole responsibility is to provide the recruiter with a resume and an idea of the job they’d most like to have. To be effective, the recruiter-candidate relationship is one that must be cultivated and pro...
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What not to do in your job interview

Interviews can be stressful, especially if you’ve gone through a number of them with nothing to show for the time spent. We can all be quick to place blame on the “other” party, but more often than not the reason someone has endured a significant number of interviews without a positive response lies with the interviewee – not the interviewer. If this is happening to you, it’s time to take a clos...
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How To Find and Get A Job

I recently started working with an executive who approaches his job search like a sale.  We speak every week about our progress and he closes the call just as he would a sales call; by establishing follow up and reporting expectations for himself and for us. It’s a smart approach, because finding a job requires the ability to sell – you. Unfortunately, most job seekers fail to view their search ...
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Connections and Keywords are the Secret to Landing Sales Jobs

As unemployment lines continue to lengthen, sales professionals in search of work are finding they need more than just a resume and telephone to land a job.  In today’s market, they need to know how to make the most of online networking and job search tools. The online job search site is one of the most basic tools for people seeking employment today. However, it’s not enough to simply post your ...
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