Behavioral and Situational Questions Tell me about a time an interviewer asked you to tell her about a time that you had to answer a behavioral interview question. The previous posts in this interviewing series covered several question types and provided some suggestions about how to answer them. If you missed any of those post …
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It’s Time to Put Your Strengths to Work: Why Hire a Coach?
Hiring a Career, Life or Executive coach usually starts when a nagging problem or an unobtained goal begins to bother you. “I need to find a more rewarding career.” “I need to get along better with my coworkers.” “What makes me tick?” “Why can’t I communicate with my parents, spouse, kids?” “How can I lead?” …
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It’s Time to Put Your Strengths to Work: Strengths and the Reentry Career Alliance Academy
How many mistakes have you made in your life? How long term were their effects? Did those mistakes lead to other mistakes, until you couldn’t find your way out? “This is the first time anyone has ever told me anything good about myself.” Work. Vocation. Career. Job. All these are terms that describe a …
It’s Time to Put Your Resume to Work: Part 11. An Inventory of Your Career: Resume as Assessment
Your resume is a record of your career accomplishments. It lists positions held, skills developed, and assignments completed. Could your resume be used for another purpose? How about using your resume as a career assessment? When you hear the term assessment, you probably think about Myers-Briggs or DiSC or my favorite the CliftonStrengths (StrengthsFinder). These …
Have Yourself a Merry Little Job Search:
Job Seeking Success for the Holidays When is the best time to look for job? What if I told you it was Christmastime? (Or whatever end of the year holiday suits you). The holidays tend to be child-centric, so let’s approach this with a little of the wonder and naiveté of a child. When you …
It’s Time to Put Your Resume to Work: Part 10.
Talents, Strengths and Your Resume Why do you include any particular bit of information on your resume? Why do you include information about your education? Why do you mention a particular work success versus some other one? Why would you include your involvement in a volunteer activity? You include them to: Show you meet educational …
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It’s Time to Put Your Resume to Work: Part 9 – Avoiding the Trash
With all the great suggestions, tips, advice, and wisdom in the “It’s Time to Put Your Resume to Work” series, you should have no problem getting the attention of the hiring manager and being invited to an interview. Right? How about a strong maybe? No doubt you will be far better armed to get noticed. …
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It’s Time to Put Your Resume to Work: Post 8. How Dressed Up Does Your Resume Need to Be?
So now you are ready to produce your resume. It’s time to put ink to paper or dark digital bits to screen. You’ve followed all of the suggestions in this series. You have amazing, powerful, spot on bullet points. The words you are using align with the language from the job listing. You have responded …
“It’s Time to Put Your Resume to Work” : Part 7: What to Do When You Don’t Meet All the Requirements
Ok. You’ve reviewed all the good stuff in the “It’s Time to Put Your Resume to Work” series. If not, you really should. You’ve used the a la carte resume process to match the job listing. Your ready to send that resume to get that interview, to start the next chapter of your career. But …
“It’s Time to Put Your Resume to Work”: Part 6. Avoiding the Mundane, Boring, and Useless
A Revelation Your resume is not about you. What? No, it isn’t. Then what is it about? Your resume is about how prepared you are to solve a potential employer’s problems and make her life easier. Organizations hire people to solve their problems or satisfy their needs. That problem or need may be to sell …