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The short answer: both, and it depends.
Check out this post on Recruiting Blogs by Katie, titled Personality vs. Qualified. She talks about a challenge that regularly comes up. No matter how fair anything should be, there are always nuances, and biases, and circumstances… so there is not one “right answer.”
Here’s Katie’s advice, which should help [...]
tags: Career Discussions, Interviews, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
January 19th, 2012
As I’ve spoken over the last few years to professionals in transition, I’ve convinced myself that the job search is 99% communication.
And we do it wrong (or poorly)…. almost all the time.
Can you communicate just a little bit better? Communication in your job search is key.
It’s why job seekers spend hours working on their “elevator [...]
tags: Interviews, Networking, Resumes, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
December 22nd, 2011
There is a lot of talk about whether someone who has been self employed can successfully enter the workforce again.
Because of my raw blog posts over the years, I’ve said I was “unemployable.” That is, if a potential employer saw stuff I have written, they might think I wasn’t going to be a good team [...]
tags: Career Articles & Resources, Career Discussions, Career Education, Interviews, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
December 12th, 2011
For the last 3+ years I’ve been speaking around the country to thousands and thousands of job seekers. I’m writing this from a hotel room, preparing for a presentation to a group of students hoping to enhance their careers with advanced degrees!
People spend a lot of time and energy on things like LinkedIn, their resume, [...]
tags: Career Discussions, Interviews, Required Reading, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
November 18th, 2011
Is it your role, or your duty, to help a recruiter remember who you are?
If they are good, shouldn’t they remember who you are?? Isn’t that THEIR JOB?
It might be a part of their job, but if they aren’t doing that part of their job well, is it their FAULT?
Some recruiters will be really good [...]
tags: Career Articles & Resources, Career Discussions, Fun With a Purpose, Interviews, Networking, Recruiters, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
November 16th, 2011
Last month Alison Doyle posted two articles to help you interview better:
Top 50 Interview Questions: personally, I hate the wierd questions. I find them almost offensive, and lazy. Maybe because I’m more of a programmer-type, and I like ones and zeros, and don’t gravitate towards philosophy. But in my experience, interviewers aren’t really smart enough [...]
tags: Interviews, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
November 7th, 2011
Alison Doyle wrote a great post on the Job Search . About site about a topic that everyone talks about… but the flip side of the coin.
Networking is supposedly how you are going to land your next gig.
What if it just doesn’t work for you??
Read her post here.
Her points include:
Walk in (to companies).
Have someone call [...]
tags: Career Articles & Resources, Career Discussions, Career Education, Interviews, Networking, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
October 24th, 2011
It is becoming more common for a company to ask you to do a Skype, or video, interview, instead of fly you out to their corporate offices. This has been happening in universities a lot, and a friend of mine owns Hireview, a company that helps hiring managers and HR control interview costs with video [...]
tags: Career Articles & Resources, Career Discussions, Career Education, Fun With a Purpose, Interviews, Job Search Tools, Networking, Recruiters, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
September 5th, 2011
As you know, I love to get my job search knowledge from recruiters. They play a very interesting role. While many job seekers feel that recruiters are there to keep you out, they work really hard to help at least one candidate be very successful for every opening they are trying to fill. They get [...]
tags: Interviews, Recruiters, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
August 29th, 2011
Check out this post on Recruiting Blogs about the buyers market (which is not in your favor): Jobseekers Beware: It’s a Buyer’s Market…and the Interview Questions are Getting Interesting!
I personally think these types of questions are ridiculous (depending on the job). There are books on weird questions “to be ready for.” But many of [...]
tags: Interviews, Recruiters, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
August 18th, 2011
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