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Article Title: The Job Awful Truth’s: 5 Interview Tips to Keep Your Phone Ringing (Volume 1)
Author Byline: ©Copyright, 2009, Nicole Dukehart and Jennifer Bruton. All rights reserved. Used with Permission.
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When you are actively pursuing new opportunities, the process will most likely start with some type of phone interview. Sometimes this [...]

“Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.” – Napoleon Hill
Okay, so what is today’s quote all about? Simply put, don’t be discouraged in your job hunt. Not every lead ends in a job offer, in fact, the vast majority don’t pan out. It’s kind of like Lotto, if you have [...]

“And I’m already gone And I’m feelin’ strong” – Jack Tempchin and Robert Arnold Strandlund
I was looking at my weekly LinkedIn updates (which I usually ignore) the other day and noticed that one of my former coworkers had a new profile (and a new job). So I got to thinking, where are all of my [...]

We spend so much time reading, writing and hearing about how to “find the job for you”, what you need to do and how to do it right. What about when it goes wrong?  How do you recover from the bad interview or some other horror story? Or what about that dream job that was [...]

Interviews. Sounds fairly easy, all you have to do is talk about what you’ve done and how that relates to the job opportunity. In fact, the interview is the hardest part of the job search process and the single largest reason why people don’t get the job. Yes, you must have a great resume with [...]

This is the second article on Thank You letters (the first was “Have you sent your Thank You letter?” back in October). Thank You letters (also know as Follow-up Letters) should be a part of your job search marketing campaign toolkit and you should have some basic templates ready to go before the interview. There [...]

I’ve covered various aspects of the job interview, but I thought it would be helpful to put it all together in one place and include some additional points and links that have not yet been discussed.  As an example, you should always have extra copies of your resume when you go on an interview.  Sounds [...]

Time to review some of the basics again (Resumes, Cover Letters and Interviews).  These resources are for both those just starting their job search as well as those well into their search.  These are living documents which should be reviewed and tailored to your needs as they change.

Resumes - About.com’s section on resumes is very extensive. [...]

Your work has paid off, you have a job interview – what now?  Be prepared for your job interview, many people think they can “wing it” but very few people can pull this off.  There are 10’s of thousands of articles on this topic (a Google search comes up with over 6 million results), but [...]