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When It’s Your Turn to Ask the Questions
Hiring experts stress the importance of researching an organization and asking smart questions throughout the interviewing process. This not only shows that you’re prepared and indicates your interest...
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Avoid These Job-Hunting Sins at All Costs
August seemed like a good time to check in with a few recruiting Web sites and blogs, and with some hiring managers and recruiters about what makes them crazy about job hunters. (Don’t worry, job...
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How to Make Supply and Demand Work for You in a Search
Anyone who has ever taken an economics course knows that the cornerstone of most economic systems is simply the laws of supply and demand. If there’s too much of a product or service for the demand,...
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It Doesn’t Have to be Forever
We all know that employers have little, if any, loyalty to employees these days. Layoffs, reorganizations and buyouts in recent years have taught us that our jobs are continually vulnerable and (unless...
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Promoting Your Emotional IQ in a Job Search
I recently heard from a job hunter who wondered if they were TOO brainy and not warm enough in a recent interview. This job seeker said he prepared well, had a good pitch for the position, asked smart...
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What We Wish We’d Have Known
Today’s post is an answer to a smart, far-reaching question sent to me the other day by a recent J-school graduate: What do you wish you’d have known when you were just starting out in journalism, not...
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How to Really Help a Friend Get a Job
Sometimes we wonder how to best help a friend who has been laid off or especially one who has been looking for a job for a while. For those of us who have been there, we know that all too often people...
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When Are They Asking for Too Much?
These days, job candidates who get an offer — or even a rejection letter — after only an interview or two can consider themselves fortunate that they got off easy. Many job seekers face a test, or...
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How to Explain Why You Left
The question will inevitably come up — in different forms and at different times in a job search — and you should consider your answer well in advance: Just why did you leave that job? This is...
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Dcworks has moved!!
Don’t worry, dcworks continues — but at a new home (a hosted site) and with new features and functionality. Please check it out at: http://www.dcworks.info/ I will still be posting weekdays. And please...
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