With these frigid temps and more snow falling than I could ever imagine, I’ve been reading a lot lately and want to share with you three of my recent favorites:
- Research Your Target Employers – Meg Guiseppi of Executive Career Brand offers a bookmark-worthy, information-packed post on how and why to research your list of target companies. Meg lists nine topics you should research for each company, gives 10 reasons why you should invest the time to gather company and industry intelligence, and then shares more than 12 online resources to get your productivity moving in the right direction.
- Job Seekers: How Do You Handle Rejection? Kris Plantrich of ResumeWonders and The Resume Chicks wrote a valuable post sharing ways to keep a positive attitude and learn both externally and internally from rejection, which is an unfortunate aspect of job search. Kris advises that while we can’t take rejection out of the job search process, we can learn from it and learn to handle it professionally.
- What Kind of Interview Is It? Eli Amdur does a great job of walking readers through the different types of interviews that exist. If you haven’t interviewed in a while or if you’re advancing in the process with a particular company, it’s a smart idea to review the different scenarios you may encounter and plan accordingly. You may not know until the day of, either, so it’s important to be able to shift gears and handle different dynamics on the fly.