Tag Archives: interview
Job Searching – Tracking Your Progress and Being Accountable
Posted on 12. Aug, 2009 by Marisa Cogan.
Especially if your job search is a protracted one, it can be extremely hard to keep yourself motivated along the way. This is even more true when you either have no specific end goal in sight or if each day, week and month leaves you with no sense of getting anywhere or achieving anything.
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Tips For Surviving A Panel Interview
Posted on 06. Aug, 2009 by Matt Shelly.
As if facing a single interviewer wasn’t nerveracking enough, there may be times when your job search involves having to face a whole panel of them!
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Don’t Sell Features…Sell Benefits!
Posted on 21. May, 2009 by Matt Shelly.
One of the basic principles of selling is that people do not buy features, they buy benefits, and this is a principle which can equally well be applied when it comes to ‘selling’ yourself.
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Using Adaptability To Your Advantage
Posted on 15. May, 2009 by Matt Shelly.
Amongst the list of qualities that employers find desirable in a job candidate, adaptability is one of the key ones. Not surprising really, when you think about how many changes might take place during your working life in just one company or organization.
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Video Resumes – Do they ruin your chance of a ‘Real’ Interview?
Posted on 13. May, 2009 by Matt Shelly.
More and more people are choosing to ‘sell’ themselves using the Internet. It is not just posting resumes online that has taken off in a big way, however. Now we have the video resume, and increasing numbers of jobseekers are putting themselves in front of the camera in the hope of attracting the attention of potential employers.
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You Might Be A Senior, But That Doesn’t Mean You Have To Look Like One!
Posted on 07. May, 2009 by Matt Shelly.
Okay, so nobody is asking you gents to dye your hair to hide the gray, or you ladies to hitch up your hem lines to reveal more than the world, and especially an interviewer, would like to see. It has to be said, however, that if you are not exactly in the prime of youth, it does make sense to update your image and try to take a few years off your outward appearance.
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Night out at a NJ Pink Slip Party
Posted on 22. Apr, 2009 by Marisa Cogan.
We hosted a great Pink Slip Party in Edison, NJ last night! We had a full house as over 200 jobseekers and recruiters gathered to make that ever-so-important career connection. Check it out…
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What Components Go Into Making A Winning Resume
Posted on 15. Apr, 2009 by Matt Shelly.
When Career Resumes® writes resumes for individuals, certain information about that person must be present in order for it to be successful. Let’s understand what a resume is supposed to do. It’s NOT to get you a job. It’s to get you a phone call inviting you in for an interview.
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Resumes for Returning Workers
Posted on 09. Apr, 2009 by Matt Shelly.
A resume is required for virtually every job opening in every field of endeavor. A professional resume that presents a candidate’s work history and accomplishments where the climb up the proverbial corporate ladder is quite evident, would be the best case scenario.
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Your Resume — A Passport to a Better Job
Posted on 07. Apr, 2009 by Matt Shelly.
When you think about taking an adventurous trip to an exotic locale around the globe, you know the first thing you’ll need is an updated passport. You can’t cross from Country A into Country B without that official stamped document listing your personal information.
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