Feb
19
Tweet Pin It When interviewing for a job in the information technology field, you are going to be asked a mixture of questions. These range from highly technical to the more ordinary type of questions you’d be asked when applying for a sales or marketing position. Most tech interviews will start with the questions about …
Jan
24
Tweet Pin It Prepare for a job interview by following the simple steps below, and you’ll dramatically increase your chances of being hired. Preparing for a job interview is stressful for most people, and with good reason; there is a lot riding on the outcome. You need to make a good impression, and you want …
Jan
20
Tweet Pin It How you go about describing weaknesses in a job interview can spell the difference between success and failure, especially in a close race. Everyone will have weaknesses of some sort. That is important to remember, yet often forgotten by interviewees. It’s how you describe them to the interviewer that helps to determine …
Jan
10
Tweet Pin It When you’re out on the job hunting trail, you’re likely to be interviewed many times. You will run into as many different job interview techniques as there are interviewers. No interviewer is going to conduct their grilling in exactly the same manner. That being said, there are some common techniques they employ …
Jan
06
Tweet Pin It Going through a job interview can be like sledding down a hill of broken glass in your skivvies; you’re bound to experience some pain, but what if you could avoid all that from the beginning? The trick is to make the interviewer like you from the moment you meet. Once you’ve done …
Jan
03
Tweet Pin It How can a mock job interview help you breeze through the actual interview? It’s simple, really. The old saying is that practice makes perfect, and that has never been more true than when discussing job interviews. For many people it’s an almost unbearable situation; high pressure, your future is on the line, …
Dec
30
Tweet Pin It Competency based interview questions are becoming more popular with interviewers and differ from traditional job interview questions in both structure and methodology. Traditional questions are open ended and asked by the interviewer in order to assess the interviewee’s basic traits and their fitness for a particular position. Competency based questions, on the …
Dec
28
Tweet Pin It The days of perusing the newspaper to find a job may not be over, but they are saddling up for their ride into the sunset. In this day and age, people want to know where to find a job online. The volume, searchability, and timeliness of online job listings put even the …
Dec
24
Tweet Pin It Telephone job interview preparation is very similar to how you’d prepare for an in person grilling by a board of hiring managers. As more and more companies undergo serious belt tightening in an attempt to weather the ongoing financial storm, there is an excellent chance you may be asked to do a …
Dec
21
Tweet Pin It Just as in business, when getting as job, you need to be aware of and use the latest trends, and that’s precisely what the new book, Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters 3.0: How to Stand Out from the Crowd and Tap Into the Hidden Job Market Using Social Media and 999 Other …
