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what to do with bad interviewers

Job Advice Blog

But if you’ve just met the person, how are you to know if they’re a lousy interviewer – or you’re a lousy interview? But if you’ve just met the person, how are you to know if they’re a lousy interviewer – or you’re a lousy interview? I speak often about the importance of an interview being a two-way street.

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Beware of Career Marketing Firms

Job Advice Blog

He was asking me to evaluate a proposal he had received from a career marketing firm. Next, I Googled the company name–and searched on other search engines as well–to try to learn something about the proposal/agreement signer with the title of managing director. My research led me to a résumé-writing service.

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Top 3 Recruitment Metrics Recruiters Must Look Into

Recruit CRM

Finally, “time in process” breaks down the time to hire by the amount of time a job seeker spends in each step of the hiring process, which may include screening resumes and conducting interviews. For example, you may discover that your hiring managers are taking weeks to bring in job candidates for interviews.

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Riding that Job Wave

Who's the Real Boss?

Are you hanging around in your own role because you feel you haven’t served a long enough period of time for it to be justifiable on your resume? We all have fear of having a resume that you could play hop scotch on. But let me flip this around for you and present another perspective.

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5 Simple Career Management Tips Everyone Should Follow Starting Now

Eat Your Career

Keep your resume up-to-date. Even if you aren’t actively job searching, your resume should always be ready to go so you don’t get stuck making last minute updates. Your resume is one of the most important documents you have to offer so you don’t want to rush it or ignore it for years on end. Get started NOW. Get a mentor.

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Tips From Successful Job Seekers

On The Job

But she decided to pursue a job search method she had heard about — proposing business ideas to a prospective employer. "I Then, when I got the interview, I really stepped it up. While she only did about two hours of research to pitch preliminary ideas to the employer, she devoted 10 to 15 hours to prepare for the interview.

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Five Reasons It's a Good Idea to Stay on a Sinking Ship

On The Job

You catch the boss working on his resume. I once interviewed a woman whose company was in deep financial doo-doo and was doing everything but selling the copy machine on eBay in order to survive. But while others were frantically sending out resumes, she decided to stay put. Time for you to join the exodus, right? Not so fast.