The Job Application Tango
We do it all the time. When we’re ready for a job change we go online to search for a better job. You go to your favorite job board or employer’s site, find a job that fits you perfectly, and submit your resume and nothing happens.
Just a typical online job hunting experience that we’re all used to. You are now in the Bermuda Triangle of job hunting, sending your resume into the unknown digital zone that goes in and never comes back.
So, what can you do to improve your …
The Most Important Piece of Paper in Your Job Search
What’s the most important piece of paper in your job search? If you said it’s your resume or your cover letter, you’d be wrong. It’s your job application.
Top 10 Job Interview Questions with Tips on How to Answer
Every question has its own purpose. The interviewer cannot just ask you about anything and everything. Every question asked is used to differentiate your skills, and personality from other candidates. There is actually no correct answer to any interview questions. It just depends on how you answer them. Companies have their own standing with regards to the answers you have given them. They want to determine if you can offer something to their goals.
Unemployment Blues: Are We Pre-Programmed To Be Productive?
To feel productive seems to be an inherent human need. We feel good about ourselves when we are contributing — to our own independence, to our family, to our community. Many of the great discoveries, inventions, and explorations of history were made by individuals born to family wealth who had no need to ever lift a finger to ensure adequate self-support. Yet these individuals wanted to contribute to the world in some way and left their homes, worked through the night, and even died trying to be part of some enterprise.
Unemployment Blues: Life Changing Events
If we are unlucky enough to be at the wrong place at the wrong time, we experience a personal tsunami – a misfortune of devastating proportions that sweeps away our routine lifestyle and forever changes the world we know.
Unemployment Blues: Talk To Yourself
A most effective way to improve your mood and self-esteem is to create your own positive scripts for regular re-reading and study. On those days when you’re really down on yourself and think that you’re a failure, immersing yourself in a book crammed with notes about your qualities and accomplishments can restore your balance, brighten your spirits, and re-energize you for the rigors of the job hunt.
Wonder Why a Hiring Company Wants to Check Your Background?
Over 90% of companies run some type of background check on their job applicants. Pre-employment screening can be expensive and time-consuming, but most companies feel it is an essential part of the hiring process.
Your Best Job Search Tool May Be Your Computer
Have you ever been frustrated at the lack of job possibilities advertised in the classified section of your local newspaper? With an impressive array of Internet resources just a few mouse clicks away, your computer is the ticket to that next great job.