I’m not sure when it started or who thought it would be a good closing statement, but it’s time you stopped asking the most annoying question during an interview: “What do you think of my candidacy? Will you be passing me along to the next round?” It sounds benign. I mean,…
The interview process is for both parties to determine if the role and the company are a match made in heaven. While the position and the hiring manager are critically important for your short-term happiness at a company, jiving with the company’s culture will be able to comfort you on…
The best candidate doesn’t always get the job. In fact, rarely does the top candidate win the position – instead, they are beat out by someone else. A strategic hire. A better interviewer. A more likable person. A friend of the hiring manager. And so on. Companies have to hire in their own best…
Note: Great week of features. Please be sure to go see some of my other posts around the web! Brazen Careerist: Learn These 3 Lessons Before Ditching Your Day Job to Follow Your Passion YouTern: 18 Kick-A$s People Who Will Change Your Life One of the most dreaded questions Human…
Part two has finally arrived, since there are so many ways a cover letter can go wrong. As I mentioned before, cover letters used to be optional – for me, I never had to use a cover letter to land a job until the last few years. Reason being? There…
There are so many ways an onsite interview could go very wrong, very quickly. Here are some quick tips that Human Resources and the hiring manager are not telling you. Ditch the nerves. Everyone gets jitters when they are about to walk into the lion’s den and interview with their…
There are so many new ways to interview these days, that having a Skype interview is most likely going to happen during your job hunt. I had my first one about two years ago and I remember being completely freaked out about the whole situation. Since then, I’ve had many…
I know that the economy is rough, that there are limited jobs out there, and that employers have a sense of “you owe me” when they have an open position. Here’s what I know for sure: While the economy is tight, there are more jobs opening up each and every…
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