Interviews are structured for the benefit of the employer, not the candidate. The employer controls the flow of the interview and gets to ask all of the questions, which the candidate then dutifully answers. It all seems very one-sided and, in reality, it is ...
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I was recently speaking with a candidate about her interview experience. She was asked the following question in the interview: If you could meet anyone in the world, living or not, who would it be? An interesting, thought-provoking question. Even though it is not ...
In my last article I talked about how to apply for jobs online . I emphasized the importance of addressing each of the job requirements in your response. But what if you don’t meet all of the job requirements? Then what? The answer is a ...
Job search is a two-way street. Meaning that you can both find jobs and they can find you. The latter is achieved by posting your resume to a job site (ideally an entry level job site like CollegeGrad.com) or directly to an employer ...
One of the main difficulties for job seekers is that it requires a large amount of individual effort. And many times that individual effort is tedious manual searching. Your job search typically will not proceed forward unless you put in the effort to take the ...
“I keep sending out my resume and I’m not getting any interviews. What’s wrong with me?” It may not be you. It may be your resume. If you are an awesome person and your resume sucks , no one will know you are awesome ...
Your resume is your digital representation of you. It is NOT paper and shouldn't be thought of as paper. That's old school. No one prints resumes and sends them off via mail anymore. A well written resume should serve three purposes: 1) survive ...
I’ve conducted over 2,000 interviews and have trained others in interviewing techniques covering hundreds of thousands of additional interviews. I have consistently trained others to avoid quickly forming first impressions in the interview, emphasizing the importance of competency-based behaviorally interviewing to dive ...
Have you ever wondered how the interview is going during or after the interview? Are there any telltale signs that will indicate how things are going? Yes, there are. If you are adept (and I mean truly adept) at reading body language , you can read ...
You’ve probably seen word clouds before. Here is an example of a word cloud: This word cloud was generated from a job posting at CollegeGrad.com using a free online tool at JasonDavies.com/wordcloud . A word cloud is a graphical representation of a ...
I’ve got three awesome interview hacks. Actually, I’ve got a lot more than three, but if you just use these three, they will set you apart from your competition and generate job offers. Why? Because almost no other candidates use them. First, best ...
You finally have the coveted interview lined up. Yet to be fully prepared, there is still one step left for you to take before the interview. What is it? Practice. You need to practice interview, or mock interview , before your actual interview. But most candidates ...
We have all seen clickbait. Yes, it can be irritating. And sometimes rather corny. But it’s also effective. If it didn’t work, advertisers wouldn’t use it. The entire point of clickbait is to get you to want more so that you click ...
Congratulations! You’ve been called to schedule your on-site interview . This will be the next and possibly the final step on your path to a job offer . Take time in advance to prep for what you will be doing to make your interview day ...
Over the course of my career, I have reviewed more than 100,000 resumes. As a corollary, it’s also important to note how many resumes I have not reviewed . It is a number several times higher than the number actually reviewed. The resumes not ...
The classic interview non-question is: Tell me about yourself . It’s not a question and it’s not considered to be a very good interview question, since it is vague and not specific. Yet it has one thing in common with the very best ...
In my role as VP Global Talent Acquisition for Amazon, I trained Amazon interviewers on how to interview. This training consisted of competency-based behavioral interviewing techniques. Yet many candidates never got to the final round of interviews due to failing initial tech interviews. The ...
You’re doing something else: maybe talking with friends, eating lunch, doing some homework or even at a party. A call comes on your mobile from a number you don’t recognize. You pick up: “Hello?” The caller introduces themself as a Recruiter with an ...
Some entry level jobs are a natural extension of the college degree major. For example, most Accounting majors start out as Accountants . Most Electrical Engineering majors start out as Electrical Engineers . Yet not all entry level careers fit into this tidy package. Nor do all ...
There are two primary types of telephone interviews : impromptu and arranged. An impromptu phone interview is when a company representative (usually a Recruiter) calls you either based on a resume submitted or a resume or profile posted. An arranged interview is when you have a ...
You had a great set of interviews. Or at least it seemed like it all went well. Then you wait. And nothing happens. You wait for the phone to ring, you wait for the email, but you get nothing. What went wrong? Why didn’t ...
Many candidates prepare haphazardly or sometimes not at all for a phone interview. After all, it’s not a real interview, right? Wrong. The phone interview is often the first step in the interviewing process. It is as important as the on-site interview , since ...
I’ve conducted over 10,000 interviews in my career and met many candidates who had not done sufficient research about our company. As VP Global Talent Acquisition at Amazon, it was fairly common for candidates to say: “Well, I’m an Amazon customer and ...
There are plenty of self-proclaimed resume experts who are saying that your resume doesn’t need an objective. Did you ever notice that none of those people work in a job where they screen hundreds or thousands of resumes? If you ask the person ...