You are entering a job interview feeling more nervous than a dog in a room full of rocking chairs. You usually do a good job answering the recruiter's questions, but draw blanks as soon as they get to the end and ask, "Any questions for us?" In your mind you are thinking of course I...
You’ve found an opening for your perfect job. But first you need to ace the interview. After confidently answering your interviewer's questions, you can tell she's impressed with your extensive knowledge and experience. Will you get an offer? Mid-interview, all signs point to yes. But before any other moves are made, that awkward moment arrives...
You head into your job interview ready to knock their socks off. Firm handshake, nice suit, loads of confidence. The first few questions are a cinch to field, and you easily share stories illustrating how perfectly your experience matches the job requirements. And then, along comes that BS question nobody likes: “What’s your biggest weakness?”...
Did you know that standing like Wonder Woman – feet apart, hands on hips, gaze slightly upward – before your job interview can increase your chance of success? Or that kicking back in a feet up, hands-behind-your-head position helps you exude more confidence and express yourself more authentically a few minutes later? But the secret...
Once the relief of having your job interview over with passes, that's when the subtle, tricky part begins. Negotiating the follow-up phase can present completely new challenges that you never considered while you were focused first on landing the interview, and then later on getting through the interview. During the follow-up phase, you want to...
About a thousand articles come out each week on the subject of job interview tips, so I don't typically share these kind of posts on Careertopia. However, today's infographic from CollegeAtlas.org presents the results of a two thousand hiring manager survey in a thoughtful presentation I really enjoyed. The best part is that anyone can...
The one question that everyone dreads in a job interview is about your biggest weaknesses. Most of us throw up either a clichéd answer such as “I am a workaholic” or come up with something totally weird like “I always need something to eat while working.” Such misleading answers might have worked in Stone Age,...
Job interviews are exciting. With each interview you go through, you are richer for a valuable experience. However, there is a factor that disturbs all those positive aspects of a job interview: it’s called fear and it comes in many forms. You have that traumatic feeling inside that doesn’t allow you to be fully aware...
What's the worst job interview experience you've ever had? Well, even if it was a TOTAL disaster, you can rest easy knowing that it wasn't as bad as any of these interviews, featured in HuffPo's Movie Mashup series. Or was it? [ALERT: while highly entertaining, this content is somewhat juvenille & politically incorrect. To view...
The interview is your audition so what you say in an interview immensely matters. The interview is the technique to gauge your ability to think on your feet, your emotional intelligence, your attitude and your creativity. It is tempting to say that there is no “right” or “wrong” thing to say in an interview as...
