It happens that informationally- overloaded applicants miss some trifle mistakes, which in sum influence employer’s decision. There are hundreds of possibilities to ruin your job search even before the first interview call was received. Read the following instructions carefully in order to avoid unfortunate misprints and mishaps during your job hunt.
Any applicant dreams of impressing an employer and thus landing the job immediately. However,
not all candidates know the secret ingredients of the magical potion which will turn an employer
into your passionate fan. We will reveal the carefully guarded secrets of a successful job hunt.
A thorough preparation before an interview is a key to making oneself a few steps closer to the dreamed position. However, after answering a standard set of questions about educational background and work history, an applicant may find himself ill at ease encountering an unexpected twist of the conversation when asked to exemplify behaviour under stressful work conditions. If you are asked to give examples of solving some conflict business situation- you need to know the strategy of dealing with behavioral questions.
Phone interview are winning more and more popularity among the employers. On the one hand, they help to weed out some candidates and thus shorten the personal interview waiting list. On the other hand such pre-interviews give an applicant a more or less clear picture of the company-employer and thus a chance to have a second thought about the need to hunt for the position.
In the era of cutting-edge Internet technology the first obvious step of an immature job-hunter is to surf stormy web-waves of various job boards. Although, a wiser approach to job search consists in thorough and fundamental ‘sculpting’ three keystones of: resume writing, interview preparation and networking.
Many applicants, who have already found a job, lay their old resume onto the dusty shelf -and make the biggest mistake in their work life. What if a job of your dreams is waiting just round the corner? Or you are offered a promotion in the mother-company? Your old resume still has much more to offer!
Modern applicants consider cover letter writing to be a complete waste of time. The excuses for such behaviour are numerous- according to the latest survey, applicants think that a)cover letters are not read at all; b)it’s unnecessary to compose documents not stated on the job opening; c)letter-writing is not required for the position. Although, the most common reason for avoiding cover letters is a sheer belief that a cover letter is a replica of the resume. In this article we will try to show the difference between the contents of a cover letter and a resume.
Loads of guide-books on resume writing create an information overload for those unlucky applicants who decide to cram all the rules and thus often find it difficult to follow the contradictory advice of various resume writers. This article ruins the most widespread myths and prejudices connected with the job search.
All resume guides with no exception remind applicants about the must- exclusiveness of any resume. However, it may seem hard to invent something new when imagination is limited by strict rules of formal style and all the relevant resume writing hints have been used and reused thousands of times. Some candidates then start considering a fresh, luring perspective of a video resume. But are video resumes as innocent as they try to look? Let’s investigate the case from all the existing points of view.
Surveys state that more than a half of all the job-seekers choose the appropriate position according to the level of salary, and its possible future growth. But to mention the desired salary on your resume or cover letter is supposed a violation of professional etiquette. The right time to discuss money questions is during the interview, after the candidate has laid all his cards on the table of negotiations. But what if you are asked to mention the salary question on the cover letter? Is this a subtle trick of the employer to check the degree of your greed?
