There are potential downsides to bringing along “new and shiny” as you enter into a search process.
How To Overcome Your Phone Interview Hang-Ups: 10 Tips for Success
Phone interviews are known to create anxiety similar to that experienced by teenagers waiting for an answer from a potential prom date. Symptoms may include sweaty hands, shortness of breath, confusion about what to expect from the conversation, babbling, long pauses, tangents, and complete loss of the reason. How you handle the conversation you answer the phone may even determine whether you go to the big dance
When the Phone Doesn’t Ring: Tips on Following Up After a Job Interview
When the phone doesn’t ring after you think a job interview went well, you might as well be in your own personal hell. The silence can be deafening, but it’s usually soon replaced by the incessant chatter of your worst critic (the person staring back at you each morning in the mirror!) It’s important that […]
Salary Matters: 5 Ways to Find Out About Pay Without Asking
If there’s one part of the job search process that causes candidates universal anxiety, it’s discussing salary. One of the search terms that job-seekers look up, before arriving at this site, is “tactfully asking about salary.” Since asking about salary is such a nerve-wracking experience, here are five ways to find out about salary without asking (or at least asking outright).
You Have Answers, We Have Questions!
Questions and answers are the currency we trade in job interviews. They help us evaluate the parameters of a potential working relationship, and to feel out whether the various pieces of the picture will “fit” together into a coherent whole.