Every executive job search has much in common with every other job search. The rules of the game don’t fundamentally change according to industry, geography, or job status.
Despite the commonalities, however, executives in particular are on a slightly different road than other job seekers. The difference manifests itself in two ways.
First, executives face some special challenges of their own, challenges that do...
In any job interview, you’re bound to be hit with one or more “behavioral” questions, the ones that ask you to describe your response to real or hypothetical work situations, and one of the more popular questions concerns your reaction to stressful situations in the workplace.
It’s a reasonable question. No job is immune from stress, whether you’re a retail clerk trying to cope with an irate...
Unlike what your college adviser or career counselor may have told you, there are very few hard and fast rules regarding how many pages your resume should be. There are guidelines, but these can be broken at the drop of a hat if the end result, your resume, would be bettered by dropping them. Especially in times of high unemployment, professional resume writing is an art that demands a near-psychic connection with whoever i...
In any job interview, you’re bound to be hit with one or more “behavioral” questions, the ones that ask you to describe your response to real or hypothetical work situations, and one of the more popular questions concerns your reaction to stressful situations in the workplace.
It’s a reasonable question. No job is immune from stress, whether you’re a retail clerk trying to cope with an irate...
From the latest in neuroscience, here is some job search advice you probably haven’t heard: Be sure to give your interviewer a great big hug before you leave the room! It’s sure to leave a positive impression. Or, at least, it will be memorable.
Okay, let’s dial things back a bit before some hapless applicant actually acts on that little-known – and terrible – advice.
You can forego the h...
It's highly unlikely that you'll ever walk into a job interview and be given the position after only 30 seconds. While this lightning-in-a-bottle scenario is incredibly unlikely, the truth is that you can easily eliminate any chance of getting a job within that same short amount of time.
The first 30 seconds of a job interview are full of potential deal-breaking hurdles, nearly all of which can be easily leapt ov...
Resumes are usually written using one of a trio of strategies. There’s the chronological resume, the functional resume and some hybrid of the two. A different approach can make your resume stand out, and the CAR approach is one option that adds to the chronological or functional structure to make the case for your candidacy as compelling as possible.
As an additional benefit, it can make sense of a search process t...
If you're thinking about changing careers, you're not alone. Switching vocations and starting a job search has transformed from a rare occurrence to a four times in a lifetime necessity. It is now a normal and expected part of life.
The good news is that the possibilities are endless. The challenging news is that you will have to go out there and make it happen. The recession has made research and networking even...
Imagine you've been asked to read a book to your child's first grade class. You're a little bit nervous when you get to the school, but you take a deep breath and open the door to the classroom. That's when you notice the cameras and are told that your "performance" will be beamed to millions of first grade classrooms all over the world. Surprise!Panel Interview SuccessWhile your next job interview may not be live streamed...
The first salary negotiation tip has to do with timing. When should you do it? To everything, there is a season. The aphorism applies to matters both great and small and there is a right time and a wrong time for even the most mundane act.If Ecclesiastes were written today, this nugget of wisdom might be expressed differently, but it is not too great a stretch to apply it to the stages of the job search, including negotiati...