Making a Good Match
It’s time to accent the positive. Some experts advise employers to match employee strengths to job requirements.
Is It Time to Bail From The ‘Parachute’ Book?
Since “What Color Is Your Parachute?” by Richard Nelson Bolles was published 31 years ago, it’s become known to many as the job-hunters’ bible. The book, published by Ten Speed Press, has topped business bestseller lists and a new, revised edition is reissued annually. But does this book really deserve its iconic status? With unemployment
Tips on Salvaging A Shaky Interview
Job hunters who feel they made mistakes in interviews often fail to use one of the most effective tools at their disposal: a follow-up phone call. You may think that trying to bolster a shaky performance will only make matters worse, but you may be surprised at the results you get. Here’s what happened to
The Expansionist Theory For Job-Search Success
There’s certainly no shortage of job-search advice. But you’ve got to separate the wheat from the chaff. The chaff, in my view, is the harmfully restrictive advice that imposes arbitrary limits on job searches. Disciples of networking have effected the most damage on executives already stifled by servitude to corporate America. They’ve persuaded millions of
Jack Welch on His ‘Dilemma,’ And How He’s Resolving It
I want to share a helluva problem that I’ve been dealing with recently. Papers filed by my wife in our divorce proceeding became public and grossly misrepresented many aspects of my employment contract with General Electric. I’m not going to get into a public fight refuting every allegation in that filing. But some charges have
Drive for Job-Search Success By Defeating Negative Thought
Are you mentally putting up roadblocks to your search? A top human-resources executive left his employer of 20 years to consult independently, but he didn’t do well, so he began job hunting. I’m a career-management consultant. We met and he became a client after he had been searching for 10 months. He was 50 years
A Job Hunter Survives Layoffs on Both Coasts
Job-hunting requires investigating every opportunity, giving Oscar-winning performances and not taking rejection personally. I was laid off twice in 11 months and looking for work, first in Los Angeles and then in New York, was harder than my toughest job. For the record, that was working on the canning line in a salmon cannery for
If You Want an Easy Job, Consider This Advice
What is the world’s easiest job? The answer will depend on the individual, career counselors say. What seems “easy” to one person may be excruciating for another.
Is Owning a Spa a Way To Earn a Healthy Living?
During 11 years as a broker serving wealthy South Floridians, Nicole Oden made a lot of money, endured a lot of stress and spent a lot of time in spas getting rid of both. So when she became dissatisfied with the spas in her area, she decided to open her own. In short order, she
Five Tips for Switching To a Higher Paying Career
Haven’t worked for “the man” yet? No matter how far along you are in your career, you may be able to change course to boost your income. In 1999, after five years as a college-football coach in Chicago, Jerry Bowden took up a career in public relations, seeking an increase in pay and job security.
Effective Interviewing Key To Making A Good Hire
The ability to conduct an effective interview is a critical skill for all hiring managers. Knowing how to screen for the right candidate will save you the headache of a bad hire and help you assemble an all-star team, says career coach Cynthia Shapiro, author of the book “Corporate Confidential.” The goal of every hiring
Life After Grad School: It Does Exist
Most graduate students have the skills it takes to succeed in business – some just need help navigating the world outside of the Ivory Tower. “Most of them are wrestling with academic life verses non-academic life,” says Paula Foster, creator of WRK4US, a job-help listserve for academics considering alternative careers. “Because the academic world is
Sample Interview Questions: Discovery Research in Biotech
The following sample interview questions and answers are for the types of questions you should expect during an interview for a research associate position
Sample Interview Questions: Biotech business development analyst
The following sample interview questions and answers are for the types of questions you should expect during an interview for a business development research analyst position.
Sample Finance Interview Questions
Do you have finance interviews? Prepare for questions just like these – or sometimes, these very questions.
Controlling Jitters Before Your Interview
The prospect of sitting alone in a room with a stranger and talking about yourself can be terrifying. You certainly don’t want the stress to overwhelm you. If an interviewer’s strongest impression of you at the end of the interview is the sweat on your brow, quiver in your voice, and the twitches in your
Interview Questions: Finance Interview Brainteasers
Perhaps even more so than tough finance questions, brainteasers can unnerve the most icy-veined, well-prepared finance candidate. Even if you know the relationships between inflation, bond prices and interest rates like the back of a dollar bill, all your studying may not help you when your interviewer asks you how many ping pong balls fit
Answering the Money Question
Most job seekers think that the salary negotiation process is complicated. Actually, it’s not, IF the negotiator understands a few central tenets – and that the process begins at the very first mention of money.
Acing Guesstimates
The best approach for a guesstimate or brainteaser question is to think of a funnel. You begin by thinking broadly, then slowly drill down towards the answer. Let’s look at this approach in context. Referring to our sample question, you know that you are looking for how many ping-pong balls fit in a 747 airplane.
A Closer Look at Behavior-Based Interviewing
Behavioral-based interviewing has been around for 25 years, but just recently the practice has been gaining momentum along with the ever-increasing demand for skilled and competent employees. Recruiting Trends introduced its readers to the idea of behavior-based interviewing and promised to take a second, more in-depth look at the success of the technique.