Use Your Strengths to Your Advantage

July 13, 2022
Posted in Career Best Practices

“Accentuate the positive.” It’s more than just a classic song – it should be the mantra for your interviewing strategy! If you’re trying to gain experience…

How to Sell Your Value in an Interview

June 1, 2021
Posted in Career Best Practices

How are you feeling about your upcoming job interview: Extremely confident? Ambivalent? A bit nervous? Paralyzed with fear? No matter where on the confidence spectrum…

Quick Tips to Prep for an Interview

May 3, 2021
Posted in Management Best Practices

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” –Abraham Lincoln Whether you’re new to…

Interview Tips: How to Answer “What Do You Know About This Company?”

November 20, 2019
Posted in Career Best Practices

“What do you know about this company?” “What can you tell me about our products/services?” “What do you know about our industry?” No matter…

How to Explain – and Overcome – Mistakes from Your Past

June 10, 2019
Posted in Career Best Practices

Have you ever… …been fired from a job? …decided not to show up for your first day of work? …let your bad attitude get the…

“Why Do You Want This Job?” How to Answer the Right Way

October 4, 2016
Posted in Career Best Practices

There are dozens of wrong ways to answer the common interview question “Why do you want this job?” Among our favorites are: “Because I’m tired…

Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Hire Me

May 9, 2016
Posted in Career Best Practices

I’m dishonest. I’m lazy. I’ll rob you blind. Want to give an employer a great reason NOT to hire you? Say something like one of…

The Busy. The Friend. The Interrogator. The Newb. How to Prep for Your Interviewer.

January 7, 2016
Posted in Career Best Practices

Interview advice posts typically focus on the things you should say and do. In fact, we’ve published quite a few ourselves: 4 Questions to Ask…

Don’t Look Desperate! Avoid Branding Yourself as a Desperate Job Seeker

August 6, 2015
Posted in Career Best Practices

“I really need this job.” “I’ll take any job – I just have to get to work!” “Pleeease hire me.” Do you use tactics like…

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