Archive for the ‘Interview Preparation’ Category

Taking on a job interview can either make or break your chances at getting employed. Mistakes can become costly for a job hunter. Some can make the occasional mistake and still get the job, but others may not be as lucky. Trying to minimize on job interview mistakes can help you have better chances at landing a job. Here are the common ones that job applicants should be aware about. Wardrobe Malfunctions Some ...

Job interview questions are cunningly devised by hiring managers in order to get the vital information they need from candidates. Behind every job interview question is another question or a concern. Basically, your job as a candidate is to process each question, scrutinizing what the concerns of the interviewer might be. Here are some interview questions with the corresponding concerns: How long have you been job...

You’re more than prepared for your final job interview, but one thing is bothering you. You’re an immigrant and a single parent. You know that disclosing information about your status will make or break your chances of getting hired. And you’re well aware that you’re at a disadvantage. You don’t have to worry if the hiring manager is professional enough to avoid asking illegal question...

Coming for a job interview can make or break your chances of getting hired. You know you are highly qualified for the position and confident that you have what it takes to belong to the company. You are well aware of the questions that will be asked by the hiring manager and you are sure that you will pass the interview with flying colors. But how sure are you? Preparing for the questions is different from answerin...

The job interview is one of the most important points in your employment search process. Sure, your resumé impressed the hiring manager. You are very much qualified and have the required skills, and now you have to prove you will be a good fit with the company and future colleagues. Just do not wreck the highly-valuable and much-coveted face-to-face interview with the hiring manager. In a survey of more than...

High school grade point average (GPA) really matters when trying to attend higher education institutions. But how about when you’re fresh out of college and try to get into your first job? Just how much future employers value your hard-earned college grades? Are those sleepless nights reviewing for mind-blowing exams and those long hours spent at the library going straight to the garbage bin? Yes, it matters ...

A face-to-face interview with a hiring manager trying to prove that you’re what the company is looking for can be a very intimidating experience – especially if you’re to explain how you lost your previous job. Fired, displaced, canned, laid off, resigned. However you put it, it’s still a job loss and it’s one of the most nerve-wracking subjects to talk about during a job interview. So...

We all want to create a good impression towards our interviewer on a job interview. To make this happen, we must never forget the fundamental element to make a good impression which is confidence. Our best suite, clean and shiny shoes, fixed hair, unwrinkled extra copy of your resume and a couple of memorized or rather familiarized script for expected questions are only extra baggages. All of those does not matter ...

Job hopping will incredibly rewarding in terms of experience could spell disaster for your long term career. A spate of short lived jobs could raise the suspicion of any recruiter wary of hiring anyone with a spotty job history. While job hopping has become fairly common today with the competitive job market, it doesn’t mean that a history of short term jobs are going to be appealing to all employers. Before...

Sometimes circumstances totally out of your control force you out of your job for a length of time. Or you could have simply walked out of the office one day and decided to tour the world. For whatever reason gaps in your work history don’t bode well for your long term career. Employees are extremely fishy of finding a semblance of a job hopper in potential employees or a even heaven forbid a stint in pr...