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Job Search: Let’s Celebrate Those Lemons

Before you go networking, asking for connections to hiring managers, and even interviewing, do this critical and worth-the-effort step. It could be just the one step remaining to make you the stand-out candidate.  When developing your job search strategy, obviously it is important to be honest with yourself about what might not be quite what the hiring manager is looking for–the lemons. If you can turn what might …

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Unique Interview Answer to “Sell this to me.”

While we can applaud a unique approach to answering this overused question, you may want to take a more classic approach. Especially if you want the job! Check out the interview guide at the right of this article. You’ll be amazed at what you didn’t know about interviewing.  Read the answer …

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Hidden Job Market Networking: Do You Need to Hire the Millionaire Matchmaker?

The millionaire matchmaker helps people who are successful in every area of their lives but one–meeting the right person. In a similar style if not quite the same purpose, you could hire someone to introduce you to the “right people” for your job search. When you’re in job search, it can be confusing about which services to use. It drives me crazy for anyone to say they know THE way to find a job. There are many ways to make that connection that leads you straight to a great job. How do you choose? What worked for me when trying to decide what to do while in job search, and what I …

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Social Media & Your Job Search: Together Forever

What You Do In Social Media Stays on Google Forever Still wondering whether it’s appropriate/fair/legal for recruiters and hiring managers to use your social media activities in their hiring decisions? Too late! That train has left the station. No matter how you feel about it, your social media presence is going …

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Staying Upbeat in Job Search–There is a Pony in There Somewhere

In interviews and networking, there are two things being evaluated along with your skills and experience. Your energy level and the self-confidence you convey. I’ve seen candidates who were a great fit on paper be rejected by the hiring manager after the first interview. Why? Nothing to do with their skills and experience, but because they did not sound confident, did not come across as high-energy, or sounded desperate. As simple as that. When you’ve had difficult, sometimes embarrassing, occasionally humiliating, and certainly frustrating experiences in …

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Job Search: Make Rejection Pay Off Big Time

Job search can be one place where we get more rejection than in any other place in our life. (For me, match.com was the only place that came close!) But there are two ways to have something positive come out of this awful thing called “rejection.” First, if the recruiter calls to give you the bad news, it’s a great time to get some job search assistance. If they can share with you what the reason is they have decided you’re not their candidate, you will be able to make some changes …

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Job Search Networking Meetings: When Do You Pull the Plug?

Here’s a job search networking question I get a lot: “Can I stop going to all those ‘networking’ meetings for job seekers? Aside from the fact I don’t know how to do an elevator pitch, and that’s usually part of the routine, I am spending a lot time in these meetings and usually leave depressed.” I can relate to this question! When I started networking the first time I was looking for a job, I thought it was going to …

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