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TweetShareWhether this job interview is your first or your 51st, it never hurts to brush up on your skills and do some advance prep work to ensure success. Learn how to play up your key strengths, minimize your weaknesses, and make a great impression overall. Here are ten tips from my arsenal of career advice. [...]

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TweetShareCopyright (c) 2008 Camilla Patten We are all aware that both verbal and non-verbal communication occurs during any social interaction with other human beings. It is said that Impressions are created and opinions are formed within the first five minutes of meeting someone. It is for this reason that when attending a job interview we [...]

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TweetShareNo… this isn’t a post about how to get a barrista job at Starbucks. It’s about how to do well at a job interview, held in a Starbucks. Let me explain. I was in a Starbucks last week and saw two people at a table with papers strewn about in the midst of some business-like [...]

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TweetShareOver the course of my career, I’ve heard the following a lot. Lately, we’ve been hearing it more than I’d like to say: “I’ve sent my resume out over 300 times now. I haven’t gotten anything back. NOTHING. Not an email. Not a phone call. Not even an autoreply!” These days, things are even worse. [...]

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TweetShare This guest post is contributed by Alisa Gilbert, who writes on the topics of bachelors degree.  She welcomes your comments at her email Id: alisagilbert599@gmail.com. So you’re on the job hunt, and you’ve sent out hundreds of applications with few or no callbacks for interviews. It’s a common story, but as pointed out here on Job Bored [...]

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TweetShareInteresting article in the New York Times regarding retiree job seekers and the special job search problems facing retirees and those over the age of 65. …In fact, there are more Americans 65 and older in the job market today than at any time in history, 6.6 million, compared with 4.1 million in 2001. Less [...]

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TweetShareAn article in Time Magazine suggests that virtual job interviewing, via skype especially, is something jobseekers are seeing more and more of. This makes tons of sense to me. For out-of-town interviewing, the money savings alone are astronomical. But also, think about how this is more convenient for interviewer and interviewee alike. Less pressure, less [...]

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TweetShareShould you hide your tattoos when going in for a job interview? According to this article the conclusion a lot of people are coming to is an emphatic YES! Add tattoo removal as another growth industry in this crappy job market.

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TweetShareApropos of our recent discussions of Twitter and it’s usefulness in the job search, it’s important to remember that, as with Facebook, you have to watch what you say. Read the following cautionary tale from I’m Not Actually A Geek: A lucky job applicant tweeted the following: Cisco just offered me a job! Now I [...]

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TweetShareI haven’t done an Ask Brian column in a while (though you can still submit your questions here), because I haven’t gotten an interesting question in a while. Lately all the questions have been of a kind: I’ve sent my resume out 90 times and haven’t heard anything. How do I hear back from someone? [...]

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