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How to Improve Your Job Search Focus
Like the idea of getting maximum payoff in your job search, with a minimum of wasted time and effort on your part? Read on to discover how to become laser focused in your job search to achieve fantastic results. In my experience, most job hunters understand the value of a job search that is focused and fast, as opposed to one that is broad and leisurely. To accomplish a fast-and-focused job search, it’s essential that you have a clear picture of what you’re aiming for. The following steps will help you define your focused job search goal from...
read moreAnswering Interview Questions
Answering interview questions: Answering interview questions can be tough, from commonly asked interview questions, to more unusual ones! In this article, I’ll show you how to transform your successes into powerful techniques for answering interview questions, especially behavioral questions. Then, when you’re asked, “Tell me about your experience in…,” you’ll be answering interview questions easily and effectively! Pick a skill you want to emphasize in answering interview questions, plus an example of when you’ve experienced success in that...
read moreHow to Avoid Interview Question Mistakes
Interview Mistakes: You want to be prepared so that you can avoid interview mistakes. These strategies will help you bravely and successfully handle the questions you’re asked, and sidestep embarrassing interview mistakes: Interview Mistakes Avoidance Strategy #1: Buy Your Brain Some Time to Produce a Stellar Answer- Most of us panic a little whenever a question is presented, and making interview mistakes is a possibility. “Oh no!” you may think. “What if I can’t answer this?” This is a typical and perfectly normal response, as your brain...
read moreDiagnosing Problems in Your Job Search Strategy
Wondering why things aren’t going better for you in your search? It could be that by identifying one or two weak spots in your job search strategy, you could greatly improve your job search results. The following assessment will allow you to quickly and successfully make better progress in your job search results. Diagnose Your Job Search Difficulty Take this quick job search assessment to determine potential problem areas that may be getting in the way of making better progress. Answer “yes” or “no” the statements below: I have clearly...
read moreTips for improving the results of your LinkedIn profile
It’s almost like a career fairy tale: a gallant recruiter rides up on a white horse (or sends you an email) and says, “I have a job for you!” This situation is happening increasingly often as hiring specialists access the powerful, easy-to-use social networking tool LinkedIn to identify qualified candidates. If you’d like increase your chances for being found for great-fit positions LinkedIn specialist Lidonna Beer with Career Solutions Group, and Dan Stiffler with MaxOut LI offer these tips: Unless you’re a first- or second-level connection...
read moreTell Me About Yourself
“Tell Me About Yourself”: Prepare an Effective Response to One of the Most Popular Questions Asked in an Interview Questions Asked in an Interview: Of all of the questions asked in an interview, “Tell Me About Yourself is one of the most popular. The following technique will help you successfully respond to, “Tell Me About Yourself”, one of the all-time favorite questions asked in an interview. Develop Your, “Tell Me About Yourself” Response to Handle One of the Most Popular Questions Asked in an Interview Of all the questions asked in an...
read moreCreating a Motivating Career Change Vision
Changing Careers? You’ve dreamed about making a career change to achieve a career profession that results in more satisfying work. With the following exercise, you are going to imagine, in your mind’s eye, what your ideal career change situation would look like. While you may not be able to visualize every exact detail of your desired career change, you will most likely be able to envision your basic hopes for your lifestyle and routine. For just a little while, allow yourself to dream the most desirable career change situation possible for...
read moreHow To Identify Your Best Talents and Skills
Making a career change? Wish you had a list of your best talents and skills to help you define a more satisfying career, as well as related careers that would be interesting to you? But perhaps you struggle with which abilities are truly your greatest (or if you even have any to offer at all) and how you might want to apply them to your career change. The following step-by-step process, developed from some of the best work of several career experts, will help you recall the skills and talents that give you the most pleasure, and then help you...
read moreHow to Choose Effective Keywords to Improve Your Resume’s Results
Resume keywords are one of the simplest and most important steps in your resume development—whether you’re developing a sales resume, technical resume, or some other focus for your resume document. Resume keywords are words and phrases that the person who writes a job description uses to describe the requirements for a particular position. Check out this sample job description: “Office assistant needed for busy appliance repair business. Pleasant phone voice and excellent customer services skills required. Must be proficient in MS...
read moreIdentify Meaningful, Motivating Career Change Options
Career change: When you go through the steps involved in a career change, you want the result to be work that you feel passionate about. In terms of your career change, however, I’ll be referring to passions—or “passion zones”—as those interesting industries in the world of work that are especially meaningful or intriguing to you. For instance, one of my passion zones is bike riding. I love doing it, I love how good it is for me, and I’m willing to endure hour after hour of physical effort to stay skilled and in shape. A few of my other...
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