Posts Tagged ‘interview’

10 Tips to Write an Awful Cover Letter

There are plenty of books, blogs and websites that instruct job seekers how to write the perfect cover letter. Despite the glut of resources available, I still hear stories from hiring managers who share their accounts of horribly written and inappropriate cover letters that they receive daily from...

August 24th, 2010 | Featured, Resume, The Search, Video | Read More

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

Top 5 Hiring Lessons From the Nation’s Best Execs

I’ve collected a number of articles and interviews with some of the country’s most innovative and successful executives to discern exactly how they attract highly talented and energized employees to their organizations that continually fuel their success. There was a lot of overlap and similarity...

July 28th, 2010 | Featured, Hiring, Management | 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 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