The Absolutely Best Response for “What Are Your Greatest Weaknesses?”
You are in an interview. You’ve successfully made it past the “tell us about yourself” chat. You hit it out of the park on a few other questions. And then, …
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Three Types of Interviews for Job Seekers
In my job search I went to a weekly meeting where they would ask if we did certain things (or, hit certain metrics) for the previous week. One of the …
6 Secrets of The New Interview + JibberJobber and Job Search Organizing
Nick Corcodilos, Ask the Headhunter, shared 6 Secrets of the New Interview from his book, The New Interview (an instruction book), on this blog post. Here are his six, with …
The Problem With Job Interviews
Check out this article by TechCrunch’s Jon Evans: The Terrible Technical Interview The the tech interview is terrible? ALL JOB SEARCH INTERVIEWS ARE TERRIBLE. I remember going to an interview, …
Trap Interview Questions with Ford Myers
You know, when you are in a job interview, the question the interviewer asks might not really be the question they want you to answer. Or, to put it another …
The #1 Ultimate Interview Question #JobSearch
On LinkedIn there is an article proposing the ultimate interview question. I don’t agree with the author. Spoiler alert: he says the ultimate interview question is “What did you learn …
Interview Follow-up Checklist (Mary Elizabeth Bradford)
Here’s an article on the Careerealism site by my friend Mary Elizabeth Bradford: The Best Interview Follow Up Checklist Her points (read the article because she has more details): Find …
How To: Word Cloud and Key Word Analysis of Job Descriptions and Resumes (on JibberJobber)
Many years ago I heard about the brilliant idea of pasting your resume, or a job description, into a word cloud generator to get an analysis of what words and …
Ask The Expert: Fred Coon, Outplacement and Job Search Expert
My call with Fred Coon was awesome. There were a lot of gems throughout this call. I have two regrets: We didn’t have more time. It seems like Fred just …
A superb, brilliant and sagacious list of ways to communicate better
I saw this on Facebook, I’m sure. It is a list of 45 ways to avoid using the word ‘very’, and it is a MUST-READ. Why is this a must-read? …