Mastering the Behavioral Interview

Most employers don’t get much practice interviewing potential hires and rely on the historical standby questions that are detailed in every job interview book ever written. However, those managers who are more adept and skilled at interviewing candidates will likely adopt behavioral interviewing to...

August 13th, 2010 | Featured, Hiring, Interviewing, Social Media | Read More

Your Most Powerful & Memorable Differentiator: Your Stories

I was reminded today when I read a terrific post on the importance of storytelling in corporate branding at Beg To Differ of the crucial importance of storytelling to job seekers who desperately need to set themselves apart during the job search process. The importance of the personal story was perfectly...

July 29th, 2010 | Featured, Interviewing, Networking, Resume, The Search, Uncategorized | Read More

7 Tips to Ace Your Telephone Interview

Most first job interviews are conducted via telephone. Once your resume has caught the hiring manager’s attention, and they believe that your qualifications match their needs, they will typically call you to determine quickly if you have the potential to fit into their organization. It’s...

June 29th, 2010 | Featured, Interviewing, The Search | Read More

The Most Ingenious Way to Land a Job Ever. For Less Than $6.

Alec Brownstein decided he wanted a job with one of NYC’s top creative directors, and wasn’t going to wait around for a job opening to apply. In a bold and impossibly creative move, he spent six dollars and came up with this: Alec’s approach was so simple and so direct, that it will undoubtedly...

May 14th, 2010 | Featured, Interviewing, Networking, Social Media, The Search | Read More

Job Search Experiment Episode 9: The CEO Interview

In Episode 9 of our real-life, real-time job search experiment with Cleveland sales executive Tim Krenn, we prepare for an interview with the CEO of a potential employer. Tim’s success in developing his personal branding characteristics and his distinctive personal branding statement (I’m the...

March 24th, 2010 | Featured, Interviewing, Job Search Experiment, The Search | Read More

10 Questions NEVER to Ask in a Job Interview

Job seekers are inundated with advice on how to prepare for their job interviews. We’ve even posted our own series on how to answer the 5 toughest interview questions. But few sites provide the job seeker with advice on what NOT to ask during their interview. Your interviewer is going to expect...

March 22nd, 2010 | Featured, Interviewing, The Search, Video | Read More

Job Search Experiment Episode 8: Raising Your Profile

In our ongoing real-life, real-time job search experiment with Cleveland sales executive Tim Krenn, we shift our focus to raising Tim’s personal profile online. In earlier episodes, Tim was guided through the process of creating his online persona on assorted social media platforms, crafting his...

March 19th, 2010 | Interviewing, Job Search Experiment, Networking, Social Media, The Search, Video | Read More

Job Search Experiment Episode 7: Your Bio

As we continue our real-life, real-time job search experiment with Cleveland sales executive Tim Krenn, we focus on one of the essential, yet often overlook elements of the job search that may prove even more important than your resume: your online bio. As the job search process shifts even more to the...

March 15th, 2010 | Featured, Interviewing, Job Search Experiment, Networking, Social Media, The Search, Video | Read More

Job Search Experiment – Episode 6: Positive Feedback

Though readers may view this ongoing series tracking the job search of Cleveland sales executive Tim Krenn as an interesting case study, for Tim this is real life. The guidance we provide needs to produce real results in the form of a job offer out there in the real world. That’s why this morning’s...

March 10th, 2010 | Featured, Interviewing, Job Search Experiment, Networking, The Search | Read More

Job Search Experiment Episode 5: Your Story

When we last left Tim Krenn, our Cleveland-based sales executive, we instructed him to create his personal branding statement – the single sentence that defined the value that he brings to an organization. Tim examined his professional strengths and crafted the statement: I’m the guy who can...

March 9th, 2010 | Interviewing, Job Search Experiment, Networking, The Search | Read More

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