Posts Tagged ‘job’

64 Interview Answers You Should Know

Although your next job interview won’t have as many as 64 questions, your would-be employer will almost certainly ask at least one of these.

Tell me about yourself.

TRAPS: Beware, about 80% of all interviews begin with this “innocent” question. Many candidates, unprepared for the question, skewer themselves by rambling, recapping their life story, delving into ancient work history or personal matters.

BEST ANSWER: Start with the present and tell… » Continue

October 29 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: interview, job | 4 comments»

How To Answer Common Job Interview Questions

Most job interviews run the same way, with the same kind of questions. “Why do you want this job?” and “Why should we hire you?” are just a couple that you’ve probably heard a hundred times. But are you preparing yourself for these common interview questions?

With managers looking for specific things during the hiring process, ComputerWorld has asked a few what their important and common questions are, and what… » Continue

July 31 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: job | 5 comments»

How Not To Be ‘That Guy’ At Your New Job

By ‘that guy’ I’m referring to the eager, know-it-all guy who comes into a new job and points out all the things everyone is doing wrong and puts his two cents into every conversation and observation.

This, generally, isn’t good first day practice.

Business Week suggests biting your tounge and just observe to begin with, then develop some conversations with the right people on areas you see issues with.

There’s no… » Continue

June 26 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: job | 2 comments»

5 Web Worker Mistakes

The Web Worker Daily have compiled their Top 5 Web Worker Mistakes. Meaning, these are the most common reasons people who use the internet for business muck it up. It’s written for coders, but speaks to all of us.

If you’re a web worker (as opposed to a web dilettante), you need to treat your work as an actual business, with a business structure, a separate bank account, contracts, invoicing… » Continue

May 28 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: internet, job, web, working | 2 comments»

Getting a job through a recruiter

As I have chance to hire people through recruiters, I usually use them only if I couldn’t find a good candidate at all from my channels and advertisements. From my perspective, hiring through recruiting has much more restrictions than hiring directly. The complexity increases as you have to deal with one more person who are demanding on your time and attention.

So is it bad a candidate to go through recruiter… » Continue

August 31 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: hiring, job | 1 comment»

The 2 P.M. Test: Make Your Work Day Shorter

Tory Johnson says if you look up the clock - it’s 2pm and you are thinking of ways to make it quicker, you definitely are not enjoying your work time. She gives out couple of ways to transform yourself to enjoy your work hours more.:

- Have a candid conversation with your boss about taking on more challenging assignments that inspire you to work harder.
- Spend time with colleagues who… » Continue

August 29 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: job, Management | no comments»

Interview tips from an experienced recruiter

Interview is the important to land you a job, and you only have a chance to go for it. Andrzej Zyms has some tips on how to prepare yourself for interview. From initial preparation, finding your way, practicing and how to react during the interview. Andrzej also provided some sample questions which may help you on the preparation phase:

- What are your main strengths?
- What are your weaknesses?
- Tell me… » Continue

July 19 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: interview, job | 1 comment»

How to Answer the Toughest Interview Questions

Caroline Levchuck at Yahoo! HotJobs shows you ways to answer tough questions in the interview. Some of them may sound impossible to answer, you probably want to know what interviewers really seek in the answer. There are tips for The ‘Future’ Question, The ‘Salary’ Question, The ‘Why’ Question, and The Seemingly Silly Question:

If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be? What if you were a car?… » Continue

July 18 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: interview, job | 4 comments»

Career Hack: Dream Job Vacation

Springwise, which is a site you should bookmark after following this link (do it!), has a post about a great new career idea: take a vacation wherein which the meat of the vacation is doing a test drive of your dream job.

A few years ago, Vocation Vacations’ founder Brian Kurth left his job and tried something new. Realizing he wasn’t the only person stuck in a corporate lifestyle he… » Continue

May 3 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: career, hack, job, work, work-life | 1 comment»

How to Write a Killer Resume (for Software Engineers)

Niniane Wang, a Google software engineer, has given some tips to write a great resume and impress your interviewer. Resume is important, especially at the screening process, to make your resume shine among the pile of resumes. In the case of software engineers, this is extremely important to highlight your achievement correctly. In the article, there are some tips:

Don’t be vague on technical details of your past work.
Don’t go into

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February 24 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: job, resume | no comments»

Slow Leadership Survey and its initial results

Adrian Savage has a survey with feedback from readers on work and career. It is interesting to see his initial feedback on the survey:

… As organizations push harder to lower costs and boost productivity, the people who work for them are feeling ever greater strain. That’s the message that’s coming through clearly from a preliminary look at the survey I launched a week or so ago.

What is the single problem… » Continue

February 1 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: job, work | no comments»

Why I Quit Entrepreneurship and Got a Real Job

Most of the Entrepreneurship articles focus on why you should start up your own business. This article Why I Quit Entrepreneurship and Got a Real Job by Rob takes a different spins. He talks about why he left entrepreneurship and re-joined the corporate world again. He discusses what have he learned - in summary: Entrepreneurship is difficult. Here are some of the main points he mentions:

Money Matters
Nobody cares that you

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January 6 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: business, entrepreneurship, job | 2 comments»

Top 7 Tricks For Getting an Interview

Have you tried everything and you still cannot get an interview. The site, How to Write a Resume has some tricks for getting an interview:

Use a different color paper for your resume
Use a different size paper for your resume
Inside contact
Certified Letter
Send your resume with a gift
Deliver the resume in person
The post-it note trick

Some of them are quite good suggestions - like different size paper, and using certified letter etc… » Continue

October 20 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: interview, job, resume | 6 comments»

25 Words That Can Hurt Your Résumé

CareerBuilder has suggested that there are 25 words that you shouldn’t put in your resume. He referenced book The Elements of Résumé Style and show several examples from it:

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Instead of… “Experience working in fast-paced environment”
Try… “Registered 120+ third-shift emergency patients per night”

Instead of… “Excellent written communication skills”
Try… “Wrote jargon-free User Guide for 11,000 users”
…

When I reading job candidates’ resume, I don’t really mind of reading those terms - but… » Continue

October 8 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: job, resume, writing | 6 comments»

Tips for the First Day On The Job

Lizzy Klein over Get Your Life On has an good article on what should you do on your first day on the job. Most important is getting the first good impression from your boss, your colleagues, or your sub-ordinates. She provided some good tips on achieving this: