You off-ramped your career, taking years off to stay home with your child. You’ve started applying for positions and just received word you have your first interview next week! You’re excited, but you’re also nervous .It’s been more than a couple years since your last interview and you feel a bit rusty. My advice to…
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Employers asking for workers’ Facebook passwords
Much has gone around the past couple of weeks about the unfortunate new trend of employers asking for Facebook passwords either during the interview process or from their existing employees. A recent article by ZDnet.com summarizes recent updates well: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/petition-investigate-employers-asking-for-facebook-passwords/11481 There are multiple blogs and articles that have been written on the topic. I came…
Be Social Media Savvy in Your Job Search: What every jobseeker should remember about Facebook and Twitter
Today, employers are reviewing your online presence. Google yourself. If old posts or out-of-date information comes up, see if you can take it down or update it. If you can’t remove outdated info about yourself, create new content (Twitter account, LinkedIn profile, articles, etc.) to try to “bury” the old information, and keep in mind…
Will the best networker please stand up!
You’re on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. You read that those sites represent the “new” networking. So then why aren’t you swamped with interviews? Yes, social media has created a place for itself in today’s job search and the professional networking arena, but that is in addition to the tried and true methods from the past,…
Interview Communication Techniques
Not everyone can claim strong verbal communication skills, and sometimes nerves or stress can unhinge a normally effective communicator. Interview coaching can often work out the kinks, but other times, it’s a problem for which job search candidates need to devise work-around strategies. When faced with a traditional face-to-face interview scenario, consider some of the…
How to answer confidential questions on an employment application
Filling out an application can be filled with land mines if you’re conducting a confidential search, and filling in an application online can be even trickier if the fields require a certain type of answer before letting you progress. This topic was a recent conversation on one of my professional e-lists, and what follows is…
Why is my résumé writer giving me homework?
It’s natural to stumble through the beginning steps of developing your new résumé as you hash out the specifics of your job target, the type of job to which you’re best suited, what you want and what you don’t want, which specific industries or locations. An astute professional résumé writer will ask you some pointed…
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