You’re ready and raring to go for the online job hunt. You have the information you need and you sit down at your computer to get started. And then the online system asks you a question you don’t know the answer to. Or the system crashes right when you’re in the middle of the process.
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While you don’t want to think of every interview as a place where you’ll be tricked, it happens. Most hiring managers are completely fair and efficient because they know the rules and they’re not interested in breaking them. (And making more work for themselves.)
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When you’re right out of school or you’ve been off work for a bit, you may think your experience is pretty thin. In some cases, you might start to apply for jobs that don’t match your qualifications or your experience level because you believe that the more applications you send out, the better.
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One of the things you may not have realized about your job hunt is how much trust you have in the hiring departments. You trust they’re going to review your entire resume and that they’re going to look at your background with care.
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You are going to hit times in your job hunt where it seems like nothing is working. Even if you have more qualifications than the Pope, you might sit by the phone without hearing anything about an application – for months. Many job hunters will let this get them down, but you can do something different. Instead of thinking that the job hunt should be easy, you can look at it in a new way.
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At the beginning and the end of an interview, you may have to shake hands with the other person. This can become a dramatic conversation in your head – do I shake hard? Did I shake too hard? What happens if they try to crush my fingers?
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Whether you’re in an actual interview setting or you’re on the phone with a hiring department, you need to know a few things. One of the main things that most job hunters today forget is that they’re actually NOT allowed to ask you certain things:
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From the time you walk into a job interview to the time you leave, realize that you are being tested. While you might have practiced all of the right interview answers and you know your resume backwards and forwards, if you’re not thinking about the way your body looks in the chair, then you might not be the one who gets the call to say that you’re hired.
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Walking in the room for your interview is scary enough without having to think about the type of person you are. Shouldn’t your interview be about what you have to offer? Yes, but you’re also a real person and the hiring department wants to know who that person is.
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Want to Avoid Letting Your Age Get in the Way of Being Hired?
Posted on 28. Mar, 2012 by Matt Shelly.
Your age is nothing but a number…in theory. While it’s true that you’re protected by age discrimination laws when job hunting, the truth is that many hiring departments are more interested in looking for young employees who have the ability to be a part of a company for a longer period of time.
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