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Interview Tips – Beyond the Usual

Posted on 20. Dec, 2009 by Bill.

Books abound on how to answer specific resume questions, from the absurd (if you were a fruit, what would you be?), to the mundane (tell us about a time when you provided excellent customer service), to the sublime (could you share with us what motivates you, what you are passionate about, and how these relate [...]

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Ken Diamond -CEO WinTheInterview

Posted on 22. Apr, 2009 by Bill.

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After your Interview Are You Memorable Enough to Hire?

Posted on 08. Apr, 2009 by Bill.

Eric Kramer of InterviewBest.com writes most candidates and hiring managers think that an interview is a hum-drum question and answer session mostly repetitious and easily forgotten. You are competing against an average of eight other candidates; don’t you think you should be memorable?
In an interview, you want to powerfully communicate your match with the critical [...]

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Preliminary Job Interview Question Guide

Posted on 02. Nov, 2008 by Bill.

At one point or another unless we are trust fund babies or are lucky enough to not work, we will have to go through the interview process. Now usually when people go through the interview process they just wing it and whatever comes out of their mouth, comes out of their mouth. But some people, [...]

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Powerful Phone Interviews

Posted on 31. Oct, 2008 by Bill.

Phone interviews are de rigueur with many organizations.
Companies conduct phone interviews for a number of reasons.
It’s a way to screen out the dead wood.
It gives the next interviewer baseline information from which to work.
It saves money.
So, how do you prep for a powerful phone interview?
And how is it different from a face-to-face interview?
Recently, three of [...]

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Questions an Interviewee Can Ask

Posted on 30. Oct, 2008 by Bill.

An interview generally is, or ideally should be an interactive process. In that case it important to know what are the questions that you, as an interviewee, can ask at an interview? Asking questions is not the prerogative of the interviewer alone. As an interviewee you have the right to ask questions; the trick is [...]

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Tips to navigate the job interview

Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Bill.

Tips to navigate the job interview
Let’s face it: All job interviews are challenging. Even on the most pleasant interviews, you still need to keep your guard up at all times and fight the urge to become a smidge too comfortable. – What are you supposed to do, though, if a job interview begins to go [...]

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Mastering quirky questions may help you get the job

Posted on 05. Oct, 2008 by Bill.

Mastering quirky questions may help you get the job
Tell me a joke. Or a funny story. Actually, what’s your favorite food truck on campus?
These questions may not seem out of the ordinary to the average person, but when they appear in the middle of an On-Campus Recruiting interview this week, students may be thrown for [...]

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What Happens After the Job Interview?

Posted on 02. Oct, 2008 by Bill.

Once you complete your job search package, then the next step in sequence in the job employment network process is to contact your job search network contacts. This is best done to expand your career job employment options and opportunities. The early bird gets the worm. Because your network members are certainly as well as [...]

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8 Tips for preparing for a job interview

Posted on 09. Sep, 2008 by Bill.

When looking for our dream accountancy job or public sector jobs we spend a lot of time researching, preparing our cv’s and rehearsing interview questions, but a lot of people overlook the importance of your appearance in a job interview. One of those things we get told growing up is, “don’t judge a book by [...]

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Don’t Take Interviews For Granted

Posted on 25. Aug, 2008 by Bill.

I recently had a discussion with a candidate that went for a interview at a well known insurance company. The initial contact was made through a friend of a friend who worked within the company. A week after the candidate had sent their CV in for review their mobile phone rang with an offer of [...]

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Answering Interview Questions – How to Make the Right Impression in Your Job Interview

Posted on 16. Aug, 2008 by Bill.

For most people, a job interview is both an exciting and terrifying prospect.
Being called in for an interview means that your job application has passed the basic requirements for the role and your would-be employers are interested in knowing more about you.
Usually it is this prospect of making a good impression on your employers during [...]

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Getting Hired: Successful Job Interview Using Influence Skills

Posted on 31. Jul, 2008 by Bill.

One of the most important influence moments in your career is the moment where you must convince someone to hire you. Whether you are just out of college, looking for a change, or a contractor who must convince others of your services almost daily, you will find that a set of simple influence skills will [...]

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