How to Write an Interview Thank You Email
There are many components of a successful job interview, including thorough preparation, confident body language, professional presentation, and clear articulation of your skills and experience. Once you’ve mastered all of these details and walk...
What You Should Know About Career Management
Master the Most Underrated Competency for Career Success The #1 career competency that drives success across industries is a strength that anyone can develop -- and one that is crucial to both overall career success and acing job interviews. The...
Career Change Tips: The Dos and Don’ts of Navigating Your Next Step
In our coaching business at Skillful Communications, we work with people in all sorts of industries (and age groups) who are pursuing career changes, and there are plenty of reasons they’re doing so. With rapid developments occurring in technology...
Interview – Ben Brooks | Executive Coach + Co-founder PILOT
Interview with Ben Brooks, co-founder of PILOT (www.pilot.coach) - a tech startup that helps employers retain their best people. Ben discusses: Why the best time to work on your career is when you're not looking for a job. Why using your...
Interview – Josh Goldstein | Co-founder Underdog.io
Today's guest: Josh Goldstein, co-founder of Underdog.io - a job marketplace that connects candidates with high-tech firms in New York and San Francisco. Josh discuss some of the common mistakes that disqualify many great candidates, and how to...
Interview – Chris Voss | FBI Hostage Negotiator
Have you ever wondered what techniques a top FBI hostage negotiator might use during a salary negotiation? Well now is your chance to take a peek behind the curtain and learn from one of the best. Chris Voss @VossNegotiation is here to teach you...
Recruiters Reveal: Top 10 Reasons You Didn’t Get the Job
You may be familiar with some of these issues – others may surprise you because very few interviewers are willing to share honest feedback with candidates. In Part 2, Melisa talks about mistakes that sabotaged so many of my interview coaching...
The Top 10 Most Valued Job Skills (Part 1)
Looking to land your dream job? Before you can truly interview well, you have to understand what hiring managers are looking for and how that aligns with your job skills and experience. After all, when they ask you about your strengths or fit, you...
How to Get the Applicant Tracking System to Pick Your Resume
The entire process of reviewing and evaluating resumes is evolving fast. If you’re a job seeker today, you must adapt to the new reality of candidate screening if you hope to move past resume screening software and onto the interview. Here is a...
The Ultimate Guide to Passing Background & Reference Checks
Many job seekers don't fully realize the important role reference and background checks play in the hiring process for scores of businesses. A stellar resume and knock-their-socks-off interview will only get you so far in today's competitive job...
The Ultimate Guide to Finding a Job as a Veteran
Everything You Need to Know to Make the Transition from the Military to the Civilian Sector. Former U.S. Airforce member Maggie O'Leary shares her transition and job-hunting secrets. The competition in the job market is tough, and it is even more...
5 Important Things to Consider Before Accepting a Job Offer
After sending out carefully-crafted cover letters and resumes and acing multiple rounds of job interviews, the payoff is here: a job offer. Time to celebrate? Not so fast. Even in a tight job market, it's not always in your best interest to accept...
7 Resume Tips for Career Changers
Most of us will go through at least one career change. Sometimes career change is by choice -- prompted by the discovery of a new dream or the need for bigger challenges. Often, especially during times of economic upheaval, career changes are...
Job Hopping – DOs and DON’Ts
Some might say job hopping, the practice of changing jobs frequently in a short period of time, is career suicide. Many hiring managers are biased against job hoppers -- seeing frequent employment changes as a sign of flakiness or unreliability....
How To Work A Job Fair
Here are some useful job fair tips to help you get the most out of these events. A great way to connect with job seekers and hiring professionals alike, a job fair can be a convenient and effective tool in obtaining the very position you want. On a...
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