3 interview tips every college student needs to know
You pick tiny pieces of lint off your pinstripe slacks and nervously straighten your resume. You mentally review your strengths, weaknesses, and the event in your life that most challenged you. You...
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(By Brand X Pictures) Preparing appropriate questions is just as important and preparing appropriate answers. You’ve worked hard all year and finally gotten through to the first step: the coveted job...
View ArticleHave the best interview ever (and land the job!)
By Ron Norton, Brand X Pictures Sure, you might be able to give an impromptu speech in Public Speaking 101, but an interview is not the time to test your improvisation skills. Summer is fast...
View Article6 reasons you didn't get the job (that no one will ever tell you)
You dressed the part. You told engaging stories. You asked insightful questions. Frankly, you nailed the interview, but you didn’t get the job. What gives? You can certainly try to ask for feedback...
View Article4 essential ingredients of an incredible LinkedIn summary
You’re smart, effervescent, and frankly so darned funny that people gravitate toward you on humor alone. Why, then, does your LinkedIn summary read like something out of Professor’s Crabapple’s dry,...
View ArticleThe secret to a killer networking meeting
A few months ago, I worked with a client (let’s call her Meg) who was in the early stages of planning a move from LA to Denver. At my suggestion, she immediately began reaching out to friends and...
View Article4 surprising reasons you blew that interview
One of my favorite ways to prepare for an interview is to come up with a list of 10 potential questions, give that list to a friend, and ask him or her to interview me. At the end of a recent...
View ArticleWhere you went wrong in your job interview
Before your interview, learn everything you can about the company. (iStock) Losing out on a job after you’ve gone all the way through the interview process can be discouraging. But instead of focusing...
View ArticleThe one interview question you need to ask if you want to land the perfect job
You know how to rock an interview. You’ve read up on the most-asked questions, practiced your responses, picked out your most professional outfit and studied the company’s website. And that will all...
View ArticleHow attending office hours helps you grow as a professional
Thinkstock Some of us college students may view office hours as a last resort: that last minute help on the 10 page analytical paper on Paradise Lost, that quick question before the calc midterm, that...
View ArticleHere's the secret to using your interview anxiety to your advantage
Lucinda Bassett’s From Panic to Power: Proven Techniques to Calm Your Anxieties, Conquer Your Fears, and Put You in Control of Your Life opened with the exact pep talk I needed. Chapter one begins:...
View ArticleNail your phone interview with these 10 tips
Thinkstock Phone interviews are a nightmare to the inexperienced and unskilled in phone etiquette. Should I be loud? How long will it be? Will the interviewer hear how nervous I am? Don’t worry: I have...
View Article5 ways to make the most of your college job fair
It’s a familiar situation to many of us: Students milling around in a sea of kiosks, passing out stacks of résumés and receiving branded folders and plastic keychains in return. Not super inspiring,...
View Article6 steps to effective interview body language
(iStock) You may think you’re prepared for an interview as you’ve got the answers to any questions asked about your skills, past work experiences and other hypothetical situations, but it’s not just...
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