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Job Seekers: Don’t Make These Fatal Mistakes
Most savvy job hunters are familiar with the age-old traps: using the right keywords, or avoiding spelling and grammar errors. However, mistakes now can be so insidious, you may not even realize you’re making them. Are you making these 7 fatal errors?
7 Safety Tips for Your Job Search
Scammers are preying on desperate job seekers. Are you conducting a safe job search?
The Entrepreneur Job Description
A job description’s value extends way beyond just being a tool to hire new employees. In fact, they can help establish expectations, identify areas of weakness, and give direction to the workday. Interestingly enough, most entrepreneurs and business owners fail to write a job description for themselves. As a result, they perform their work “on instinct;” in the end, this results in overlooking key functions that can slip out-of-mind.
What are You Doing All Day? The Job Seeker’s Job Description
“You should treat your job search like a job.” Chances are, you have heard that cliché before. But what does it mean? Most people assume that it relates to the number of hours they spend on their job search. They mentally commit 40 hours or more a week to their job search, but struggle with how to fill those days.
A Career Lesson from “Alice in Wonderland.” Where do you want to go?
How many times have people let their career just “happen,” instead of planning on where they want to go? It is easy to become complacent, letting those dream jobs stay exactly that – dreams. The difference between a dreamer and a doer are not necessarily the goals, but the decision on which path to follow.
Are You Living in the Problem or the Solution?
I have realized that I only follow one positive source a day… but I will happily follow all the negative stuff in my feed. I don’t think that’s the way to build a positive outlook… Time to get out of the problem!
7 More Snarky Answers to Common Interview Questions
While it’s probably not a good idea to let your first thought to these dumb questions fly, you can gain some perverse satisfaction from what you wish you could say… and the smart answer that you probably should use.
Snarky Answers to 6 Common Interview Questions
Everyone knows some job interview questions just beg for a snarky answer. Wouldn’t you love to once, just once, really say what’s on your mind? Enjoy these forays into the dark side – followed by some suggestions for how to really answer the question if you actually want to get the job.