Another Chance to Shine – Following Up on the Interview
Need some ideas on how to write an interview follow up letter that can make or break your chances of becoming hired. Use this type of letter as your second chance!
Avoid These Resume Mistakes!
It is a mistake to think of your resume as a history of your past, as a personal statement or as some sort of self expression. Sure, most of the content of any resume is focused on your job history. But write from the intention to create interest, to persuade the employer to call you. If you write with that goal, your final product will be very different than if you write to inform or catalog your job history.
Most people write a resume because everyone knows that you have…
Cover Letters, Resumes And The Job Hunter…What’s It All About?
Any good job hunter needs a resume package. The cover letter and resume always go together and do the same basic thing in slightly different ways. A job hunter without both of them will probably not get very far in the search for a good career position.
With that in mind, let’s take a look at what these crucial documents should do for you. The first part, the cover letter, is a short one page letter consisting of three or four paragraphs. It serves as an introduction to t…
Cover Letters, Resumes and the Job Hunter…What’s it All About?
How a cover letter and resume go together and how to present a resume.
Don’t Skip The Follow Up After An Interview
How to write a thank you letter to use after an interview, a phone interview, or even to someone who passed your name on to a hiring manager is an art that is not taught as often as it should be by placement services and others who help job seekers with finding jobs. They always cover the basics of resume writing, interview preparation, cover letter writing, how to create a reference sheet, and even how to prepare a salary history, which isn’t even required that often, but ho…
Finding Work: Don’t Blow Your Chances
“I sent my résumé in and I haven’t heard back from the company yet. It has been weeks now. What is going on?” Let’s examine why your recent job lead may have turned to dust.
Four Common Sense Tips For The Telephone Interview
Here’s a phone interview tip worth considering: smile. A smile is a magic thing, and in addition to being seen in person it can be felt from a distance. When doing a phone interview, don’t think that because the person on the other end of the phone can’t see you that smiling and other positive body gestures are not important. The best interview tip that anyone was ever given was to smile and make positive gestures. In fact, many people talk with their hands. If you do, consid…
Get Yourself Ready to Impress During a Phone Interview
Tips on what you should be doing to prepare yourself for a phone interview.
How Temp Agencies Has Evolved
The temporary employment industry has gone through a number of transitions over the years. While temp agencies were originally used for hiring people to fill in for workers who were on vacation, it has now evolved into an industry which uses highly skilled workers. However, the temporary employment industry is considered to be a fringe market because it only employs workers for a short period of time. In the fall of last year, nearly 4 million people were hired to work for temp agencies.