Your 5-Step Plan to Getting a Promotion Without Having to Ask for It Nobody likes having to actually ask for a promotion. Advocating for yourself is a lot harder than speaking up for others. The good news is, if your boss is paying attention and your actions are speaking for themselves, you may not have to… Read More Your 5-Step Plan to Getting a Promotion Without Having to Ask for It
How to Tell if an Internship Will Be More Than Just Fetching Coffee We’ve all heard the internship horror stories. Those grueling days working with little to no pay in the heat of summer, trekking to get coffee for a terrible boss before organizing filing cabinets all day. But don’t worry, that doesn’t have to… Read More How to Tell if an Internship Will Be More Than Just Fetching Coffee
7 Career Lessons That Double as Amazing Life Advice The thing is, if you really think about it, a lot of the advice we give can be applied to any situation. After all, work and life aren’t all that separate from one another. Many of the lessons you learn from your job can shape your personal… Read More 7 Career Lessons That Double as Amazing Life Advice
The 3 Questions Recruiters Expect You to Answer During a Phone Interview Even though the phone interview should be the least nerve-wracking part of the interview process, I do know quite a few folks who find it to be one of the toughest parts. And even though I’ve conducted my share of them as both a candidate and a… Read More The 3 Questions Recruiters Expect You to Answer During a Phone Interview
You’ve been there. You’re up late one night trolling job boards and in between travel ads the perfect job opportunity appears. You hear the heavenly hosts cheering you on and rush to update your resume. But before you add your latest and greatest skills and accomplishments, your brain interrupts with the job seeker debate: Should your… Read More Is a Two-Page Resume Ever OK?
4 Steps for Answering “Tell Me About a Time You Failed” While not the most common job interview question, the failure question—should you get it—is rather perplexing. How do you answer this honestly while also not scaring away your potential future employer by bringing up that time lost your company a lot of money? It’s a tricky situation… Read More 4 Steps for Answering “Tell Me About a Time You Failed”
5 Mistakes to Avoid in Your Next Interview Interviewing is often a fraught exercise. You’re threading the needle between selling yourself and your accomplishments, while also being humble and self-aware. Say too much and you’re unlike able. Say too little and people wonder if you have the skills. Keep in mind that the interviewer hasn’t… Read More 5 Mistakes to Avoid in Your Next Interview
6 Job Search Tips That Are So Basic People Forget Them The irony of job search advice: There’s so much available that you don’t have to spend more than four seconds Googling before you land on some nugget of wisdom or another. Yet, at the same time, there’s so much available (some of which… Read More 6 Job Search Tips That Are So Basic People Forget Them
The 10 Golden Rules of Working With a Recruiter Working with a good recruiter is an excellent option for both passive and active job seekers. Recruiters can have access to jobs, market information, insights, tips and connections that many people do not. If you haven’t worked with a recruiter before there are some ways to… Read More The 10 Golden Rules of Working With a Recruiter
Behavioral interview questions ask you to spill out as to how you have behaved in certain situations in the past. Your responses give the HR interviewer an insight into how you might respond to a similar situation in the future. A small mistake in answering these HR interview questions can cost you that job; here are three… Read More HR Interview Questions That You Must Be Ready For
