Smooth Sailing for Your Job Hunt: Heat Up Your Interview Skills

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Seeking smooth sailing for your interviews?
Logically, once you have a hot resume and network for success, it’s key to focus on interviewing skills to win the job. A summary for those hoping to heat up their job search for the summer season:

Prepare for your interview. Decide how to connect your skills to the [...]

Heat Up Your Job Hunt With Hot Resume Tips

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Keep the sun rising on
your job hunt with a hot
resume!
A job search can be so overwhelming…A resume may represent a huge obstacle if you have been thinking of looking for a better job or making a career change. How can you put something together that will give you the best chance of landing [...]

Heating Up Your Network for Job Seeking Success

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How about heating up your network on the beach? Maybe your surfing buddies (or suntanning crew) can connect you to your next best career move. Networking and personal referrals will help you win jobs. You don’t have a crew? Here’s where to unearth your network…

Your network is everyone you know (and everyone they [...]

Heat Up Your Job Search: At a Crossroads? 10 Tips to Get Your Job Hunt on the Right Track

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To really start off this week’s “Heat Up Your Job Search” series, an overview of job hunting techniques to get you in the swim of things! Stay tuned this week for more specific compilations on networking, resume writing and interviewing!

Talk to people you do NOT think can [...]

Sun’s Up on Your Job Search – Summer Job Hunting

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Since this is a holiday week and represents the start of the summer season, I thought it would make sense to take the opportunity to post some compilations of tips to help you heat up your job search!
If you’ve been putting off really launching your job hunt until “the summer,” the time is [...]

Elevator Pitch – Micro Tips

I’ve written before about the elevator pitch – your value proposition or a personal infomercial. This pitch is a brief introduction to you with a focus on what you have to offer your target audience. I’ve offered tips about writing a succinct pitch that is useful and to the point.

Recently, I presented on this topic [...]

It’s Never Too Late to Network for Success

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Recently, Brazen Careerist blogger Monica O’Brian posted a blog titled, “Need a Job? Forget About Building a Network Now.” I am a big proponent of networking all of the time and agree that it takes consistent effort to nurture and grow a strong network of people who will support your career and job [...]

Why Hire a Career Coach?

As college graduation season wraps up soon, it seemed like as good a time as any to remind everyone why hiring a career coach can be the difference between getting the job and NOT even getting an interview. ..

Would you pull your own tooth? Wire your own home for electricity? Do you cut your own [...]

Pros and Cons of Working on Wall Street

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Yesterday,  Lindsey Pollak, an author and speaker specializing in career advice for young professionals, posted a guest blog of mine on her site.  It’s about the pros and cons of starting your career on Wall Street based on my personal experience and in consultation with a friend of mine who is still in [...]

The Most Important Interview Questions

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What’s the question that every interview includes? It may be phrased in a number of ways, but it is the underlying question in every single interview query:
“Why should we hire you?”
After all, interviewers want you to sell yourself. It’s not up to them to figure out if you are a [...]