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Why employers don’t tell the truth in the hiring interview
This is an article by guest blogger Jorg Stegemann. Well, let’s assume that most hiring managers don’t do this on purpose. But still it happens regularly that candidates sign for a work contract and...
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How to be Confident in an Interview
This is a guest post by Nisa Chitakasem, Founder of Career Consulting Company Position Ignition. It’s particularly understandable why so many of us find job interviews to be so challenging. You’re...
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Be Warned: Hiring Managers are Checking Out Your FaceBook Page
Could your future boss be making a hiring decision based on your online profile? According to a survey from CareerBuilder.co.uk, 27 per cent of employers in the UK said they either currently use...
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Eight Toughest Interview Questions
Interviews are designed to do just one thing: identify the best possible candidate for the advertised job. And sometimes it may feel that the questions being asked have been designed to deliberately...
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10 Most Unusual Interview Mistakes
What is the most unusual thing a candidate did in a job interview? Fall asleep? Disappear? Show up a day late? Here are the top 10, according to a survey from CareerBuilder.co.uk: When interviewer...
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Top telephone interview tips
Firstly, if you have a telephone interview for a job – well done! You have interested a potential employer or recruiter enough for them to arrange a telephone interview with you. This is often an...
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10 Unusual Interview Questions and How to Tackle Them
There are various ways that you can prepare yourself for an interview. One can research the company thoroughly, carry out a test-run to get to the premises and consider the questions that you may be...
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What the Colour You Wear Says about You in Your Job Search
With the daunting prospect of interview hanging over us, we spend hours practicing our firm handshakes, preparing our faultless answers and learning facts about our potential new company. We all do...
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10 tips for job interview success
Job search techniques change, the labour market changes and job descriptions change. But what more or less stays the same is the job interview. It’s your chance to sell yourself. The first 30 seconds...
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Psychometric Tests and Your Job Search
With competition for jobs fiercer than ever (the latest figures suggest as many as 150 graduates apply for each graduate-level job) today’s recruiters are swamped with qualified applicants – and that...
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Panel interview dos and don’ts
Interviews can be nerve wracking, which is why it pays to practise and work on your technique, but when you’re faced with a whole panel of people, you need to adopt a different approach. Read on for...
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Are you making one of these 8 detrimental interview mistakes?
Job interviews are a lot like first dates. You dress in your most flattering clothes, smile a lot (but not so much that you’re creepy), you laugh at the right times, act interested, and try to make...
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Illegal Interview Questions
Honesty might be the best policy when it comes to interviews but that doesn’t mean you should divulge personal information just because it’s asked. In fact, there are some questions that are illegal...
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11 ways to help your job search in 5 minutes
Susan Ricker, CareerBuilder writer You might have heard the saying, “Looking for a job is a full-time job.” Although a job search needs a lot of attention and focus, it doesn’t need to take up your...
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Tips for telephone interviews
Employers are increasingly using telephone interviews, both as a quick screening process to check candidates against a set of criteria, and in place of standard face-to-face meetings. If you’re invited...
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6 ways to ruin your career
At a past job, I worked with a nightmare of a client. My team members and I would often forward her “nasty-gram” emails to each other, commenting about her awfulness. After one particularly snippy...
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6 new trends in interviews
You might think interviews are pretty much standard. They ask you some questions – why do you want to work for the company, what skills can you bring and where do you see yourself in five years’ time –...
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How to answer brain-teaser interview questions
Interview questions should be fair and designed to find out if you can do the job – but in reality, candidates can be asked some very odd things. While you can’t predict what questions you will be...
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How to handle interview questions that you can’t answer
Your mouth goes dry and your mind goes blank. The interviewer peers at you with a quizzical look. You ask them to repeat the question. Their look turns to bemusement and then annoyance. You still don’t...
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10 ways to beat interview nerves
Your palms are sweaty and your mouth is dry. You feel oddly clumsy and you can’t remember your own name, never mind why you’re the best person for the job. Don’t let nerves get the better of you. Try...
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