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	Looking for a new job? Learn valuable job-hunting tips, tricks and techniques for landing a better position that best suits your career goals. Cover Letters Employment Tips The Interview and After Negotiating an Offer Networking Resumes

Cover Letters

How To Handle A Salary History Request When an employer asks for a salary history, it’s the same as them asking you where you used to work and what you used to do. They are attempting to learn what you expect in the way of compensation. Sometimes this method is also used to weed out applicants that expect too much. Learn how to bend the salary history request in your favor.

Say The Magic Words: Writing A Business Thank You Note It may sound old fashioned, but sending thank you notes to prospective employers may help you get your resume on top of the pile.

Cover Letter Secrets Your cover letter can make or break your chances of getting in the door.

Cover Letters: Do Your Homework For Show And Tell Writing a winning cover letter is the best way to get your resume read by your prospective employer. Don’t waste time with redundancy. Show ’em what you can do.

3 Cover Letter Secrets Revealed Writing a cover letter can be like cleaning your garage -- you don’t know where to start ... and you just want it done. I’m going to share 3 cover letter secrets that should get you more interviews, taking a lot of the guesswork out of your letter writing.

What Recruiters Hate About Resumes And Cover Letters Where do most resumes and cover letters go wrong? And how can you avoid the typical mistakes that most job seekers make?

Employment Tips

Find A Job You Love In 7 Easy Steps This article includes the seven steps people can take to find the job they love.

Be The Person They Want In an ever-changing job market, job seekers need to continue reinventing themselves to stay marketable. Who will you be today?

How To Beat Unemployment In a time when downsizing, bankruptcies, national disasters, and war all threaten the delicate economical balance, finding a new job or even keeping the one that you currently have can be quite a struggle. The most important things to remember are to never stop trying and never stop improving yourself. Learn how to cope with the horror of unemployment by making the best of the free time that you now have.

Searching For A Job On The Internet Have you ever had your online job search turn into a complete disaster with you looking up everything but actual job postings? To conduct an effective job search online, you need to stay focused and make the most of your available resources. Below are a few suggestions that will help you get off to a good start.

Breaking The Freeze: How To Renew Your Job Search Enthusiasm Fear of rejection can undermine a person’s momentum during his or her job search. Other emotions can also pose obstacles, leaving the job searcher in a state of avoidance, and perpetuating the problem of unemployment. This article offers some tips for getting unstuck in your job hunt.

Pinpointing Your Ideal Job Prospects The purpose of this article is to help you identify your career-related skills and interests. By following the tips in this article, you will narrow down your career choices and increase the likelihood of finding the best job possibilities for you.

Recipe For Success. Job Seekers Can Brew Their Own Chicken Soup Bouncing back after a layoff is no easy task. But, a little self-brewed chicken soup can go a long way. Finding a job is all about taking risks. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Hunting For An Executive Headhunter Like much in life, finding the right executive headhunter requires a strategy. Make sure that you have a good one.

Over 50 And Changing Careers? You’d Better Have A Plan Like it or not, if you’re over 50 and changing careers, you’re going to face some challenges that younger workers aren’t accustomed to. There’s an unspoken bias out there against older workers – at least in many companies - and unless you plan ahead and are prepared to meet that bias head on, you could be in for a long and frustrating job search.

The Interview and After

Career Change at 50+, Older Applicants Need Not Feel Intimidated by the Job Interview Over 50 doesn’t mean “over the hill” anymore. Age does not have to be a factor in changing jobs or launching a new career. As long as you exhibit a positive attitude, are committed to working and determined to keep abreast of any changes in your field, hiring specialists say they will regard your age as an asset.

Behavioral Style, a New Trend in Job Interviews There’s a new interview style out there, and it’s trickier than you think. No, hiring specialists don’t want to trip you up and make your life miserable. They just want to know how you will behave in real-life situations. And, they believe past behavior indicates what you’ll do in the future.

After the Callback, there are Many Types of Job Interviews You’re heading for a job interview, but do you know what to expect? There are many kinds of job interviews, and some might surprise you.

Interview Questions: How To Stump The Interviewer Since interviews are two-way streets, your time should be spent assessing the position, the company, the employees and anything else that could sway you toward, or detract you from, the job opening at hand.

Ask Me Anything. But Not That Employers strive to make the interviewing process as productive as possible. But some questions are off-limits. Really off-limits.

Practice Makes Perfect For Difficult Interview Questions You’ve updated your resume and sent it out to potential employers, but that’s only half the battle. Once you get the interview, how do you answer the tough questions? Rehearsal may be the key.

The More You Know, The Better: Research Companies Before You Interview With Them Before you walk into an interview, be sure you know as much about that company as possible. That knowledge may be the edge you need to land the job.

Staying Positive During Interview Questions Considering employers have spent the majority of their lives hiring people, they have learned the valuable art of reading people. That's why your attitude during an interview is instrumental to the success of your acceptance. Are you entering your interviews with the right attitude?

Ask Back: Turning The Tables On The Job Interviewer And Getting The Answers You Need This article stresses the importance of turning the tables at a job interview. Asking the interviewer questions can lead you to a more realistic sense of what the job involves. Questioning the interviewer can also help you stand out as someone who has thoroughly researched the company and can confidently assert what he or she has to contribute.

Can I Have An Interview, Please? If you desire something, there’s never really any harm in asking for it, right? So why should cover letters for open job positions be any different? If you want the job, ask for it! Here are a few ways to slip in an interview request without bashing the employer over the head with the obvious.

Interviewing Overqualified Applicants This is a very common situation in a very competitive labor market. There are a number of factors at play here. Who’s to say what’s overqualified?

Job Interviews: How To Follow-Up Effectively Like Tom Petty said so sweetly in song, “Waiting is the hardest part,” and waiting to find out if you’ve been selected or not for a job is no exception. There are some tactful things that you can do to help ease your own mind and remind the interviewer that you not only want the job, but you are the best candidate for it.

Write On! Send Thank-You Notes After Your Interviews After the interview, keep your name in front of the prospective employer by writing a good thank-you letter.

Negotiating an Offer

How To Negotiate The Best Salary And Benefit Packages Congrats! You made it through several grueling rounds of interviews and were made an offer. Just one more step: negotiation. You never thought you'd make it this far. Now that you have, you don't want to get the short end of the stick.

Networking

Making An Impact With Creative Networking This article is about making the most of your networking conversations. You can make a memorable impression by using humor and focusing on what you and your networking prospect have in common.

Take The Mystery Out Of Networking Networking can make the difference between being hired and being left behind.

Meet And Greet Vs. Networking There's a place and a time to mix business with pleasure, but be sure that you know that place and time. Introducing and getting to know people in your business community is not the same as the infamous, catch-all term of networking. Peruse this primer to make sure you aren't missing out on opportunities by incorrectly mixing the two.

How To Schmooze An insightful "how-to" on how to blend more of the human element into business interactions.

Resumes

Updating Your Resume For The Electronic Age With less time to read resumes and more pressure to make hiring decisions quickly and correctly, employers have turned to term-specific search programs to sort out the most desirable resumes. Knowing the methods used by employers can give you an invaluable upper hand when it comes to compiling your curriculum vitae for submission. Learn what you need to know about effectively using keywords in your CV.

Minding The Gaps: A Positive Spin On Breaks In Your Employment History A break in employment can work to your advantage. Follow the “Four Bes” to conquer the gap.

Resume Tune Up I've lost count of the cases I've seen where applicants with the best education, training or experience lose the job to someone with less education, skills and experience. The reason for this is that the applicant with the better skills or experience simply didn't sell themselves to the employer as well as the less skilled applicant.

Resumes That Rock, 16 Expert Tips It's never too early to update your resume, even if you're not searching for a new job. Why? Your resume is a good reminder of your achievements for your company as well as your capabilities and skills.

Keeping Your Resume Out Of File 13 Paper shredders and the delete key have made it that much simpler for employers seeking employees to dispose of resumes with ineffectual cover letters. Your cover letter is the face to your name and a bid for what could potentially become the job of your dreams. Keep the following tips in mind when constructing your cover letter to help reap the best results.

Resume Tune-Up: Making A Good Impression In 30 Seconds Slash your resume to the inner rings of bare wood and then spruce it up with key words. A successful resume is the equivalent of a book cover blurb, brief yet compelling enough to make a prospective employer want to meet you in person.

Tips For A Sizzling Resume Everybody has a resume, but not everybody has your resume. Be noticed. Be creative. Be ready for a job offer.

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