Switching Technologies: The risks of a career leap
Why Switch?
How will it affect me?
How can I explain this to employers?
So, you’ve decided to make the leap and switch from your current technology to something new. Congratulations. But what does this mean for you? How will it affect you in a job search and how do potential and current employers view it? Read more…
Job Search Tip: Don’t have a degree?
While education might sometimes give you a step up, a degree is rarely required. Even though many companies list a degree in their requirements, these organizations will usually be satisfied with an equivalent level of experience. Read more…
Job Search Tip: Resigning
You’ve taken plenty of advice for going about finding and a securing a brand new job, but now the time is here to resign from your old position.
Make sure you write a resignation letter, thanking your employer for the experience and offering to help them find or train a new employee. Try to avoid being negative, so that you can leave on good terms. Read more…
Job Search Tip: Interview Silences
With all the noise in the world, our society has been immensely uncomfortable with silence, and silence in an interview has to be one of the worse kinds of all.
There are two potential times silence can invade an interview. The first is after you’ve finished an answer and before the next question is asked. The interviewer is probably taking notes, processing your answer and figuring out what to ask next. The second is after the interviewer asks a question and before you figure out how to answer.
It’s easy to get nervous and turn the silence into awkwardness, but relax. Stay calm and understand that silence in either situation is simply a moment to collect your thoughts. This way, you’ll appear more comfortable and confident in the interview.
9 Myths of the Job Search
Some of the following statements are myths quite simply because they’re either out-of-date or incorrect. Don’t make these mistakes!
1. Job boards are the easiest way to find a job.
Correction: job boards are the easiest way to lie to yourself about your job search productivity. Finding and receiving a job via job boards is probably one of the hardest ways to go. The competition is high, and job boards practically breed resume black holes. Read more…
Job Search Tip: The Limp Fish Handshake
It’s every interviewer’s worst nightmare. They go to shake your hand, introducing themselves and asking how you are, and in return they receive your limp hand that’s barely worth shaking.
What does a limp fish handshake say about your character? It certainly doesn’t portray confidence or professionalism. Read more…
5 Easy Tips to Help You Customize Your Resume
You’re always hearing that you shouldn’t send out masses of generic resumes. You should customize your application to where you’re sending it. You hear it at least three times a day when you’re mid-job-search. And you’ve begun to tune it out. Who has time for that? How do you even go about doing it? Here, just for you, is a quick and easy guide. Read more…
5 Types of Interviewers
Even if you’ve practiced and rehearsed your interview answers until you know them by heart, the one thing you can never predict is the person who’ll be interviewing you. How should you react to each type of interviewer?
The First Timer
Most likely, you’re expecting an interviewer who’s well versed and experienced in interviewing. But occasionally you’ll come across an interviewer who hasn’t conducted an interview before, or who is new to this company’s hiring process, or who is just plain nervous about interviewing. Read more…
5 Interview Tips for Non-Verbal Communication
You may have some awesome answers lined up for your interview and a great resume to back you up, but is that enough to get you the job of your dreams?
Non-verbal communication plays a huge role in your interview, and most of the time, it consists of things you don’t even think about. Obviously you don’t want to be obsessing over these things during the interview, but browse these tips, rehearse and practice them, and keep them in the back of your mind for ultimate interview success. Read more…
Graduating into the IT Industry? Job Search Advice for Grads
You just graduated. It’s summer and that senioritis is probably still lingering in your veins. It would be easy to kick back and ignore that anxiety about the job market, the current state of the economy, and your dwindling bank account. But this is the real world, and you’re going to have to wake up sooner or later. So here’s a little pep talk for you.
Battle the Graduate Catch 22
It’s a well known and frustrating fact that many employers prefer to hire people with experience. The question, then, becomes how are you supposed to get that experience in the first place?
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