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Don’t Hide Your Enthusiasm During a Phone Interview
Don’t play hard to get when you’re on a phone interview. A job seeker should take the opportunity to show some eagerness and enthusiasm for the job or risk sounding disinterested, warned Deborah Brown-Volkman, a professional career coach who spoke to TheLadders for the article “How to Handle a Phone Interview.”
“Answer the phone with lots [...]
10 Best Companies to Work For
It’s good to work for a consultant. Consultants and contractors make up six of the top ten positions on the GlassDoor.com list of “50 Best Places to Work.”
Glassdoor.com uses anonymous reports from users to track salary info and company performance at U.S. companies. The survey was based on user responses. “The survey addresses key workplace [...]
Good Questions to Ask on a Job Interview
A certain way to impress a job interviewer is to turn the tables and ask them insightful, thoughtful questions about the position, the company and the industry, said Alison Green on her Ask a Manager blog.
Green wrote that she was “mentally beaming” after a recent job candidate asked the following question: “Thinking back to people who have been [...]
Top Job Interview Questions You Should Expect to Hear
Imagine you’re a nickel in a blender. Now figure a way to escape while the blades are moving.
Be prepared for tough questions like that on a job interview, said Kris Dunn, a blogger at HR Capitalist. Google hiring managers are actually trained to use the nickel in a blender question among others during job interviews, [...]
Unemployment Stigma for Hiring Subsides in 2009
A new study of 195 executives found that over a third of them–36 percent– believed that it did not matter how long a candidate was unemployed, according to a news statement by Boston-based technology staffing firm Veritude. Another 36 percent of survey participants said their ideal amount of time for being out of work was [...]
Racial Divide in Hiring, College Degree or Not
Education and background being equal, black men and women still face higher rates of unemployment than their white counterparts, according to a report in today’s New York Times.
College-educated black men, especially, have struggled relative to their white counterparts in this downturn, according to figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The unemployment rate for black [...]
Hired Guns Too Often Shoot Blanks
Does it pay to hire the best candidate money can buy? Probably not, said Jeffrey Pfeffer, a professor of organizational behavior at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.
More often than not the hired gun is a dud, he said. “Outside successors seldom succeed.” Nevertheless, businesses love hiring outsiders (especially for chief executive officer and other C-level [...]
When to ask Questions in a Job Interview
How do you make the interviewer feel you’re an expert in the field and already close to the position you’ve applied for? Turn the tables and interview the interviewer, said Liz Ryan, a Human Resources (HR) expert and author.
Look for openings in the conversation where you can direct questions back to the interviewer and draw [...]
Turn the Table on the Job Interviewer at Your Own Peril
What’s your pet peeve in an employee?
The blog Clue Wagon recommends a job seeker ask a potential manager this question during a job interview. “This is a great question to ask your potential boss. You may save each other a lot of grief.” (8 Questions to Ask in a Job Interview)
It might also cause [...]
Why a $90,000 Job Goes Unfilled
Despite record unemployment, recruiters said they can’t find enough candidates to fill certain jobs, according to a survey of recruiters by the Human Capital Institute (HCI) and TheLadders, which operates Career-Line.
The trouble for recruiters isn’t finding willing applicants. They can’t find candidates with the necessary skills and industry experience to fill the positions, several recruiters [...]
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