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How to Stand Out at a Job Fair
Attending a job fair or a career fair can be a great opportunity to network, explore job openings, and discover organizations that would be a great place to work. Whether you are unemployed and are actively looking, or employed and want to look for other opportunities, a job fair is a great place to start. However, standing out in a sea of candidates requires strategic planning and preparation. Let’s look at what a job fair ( vs. a career fair) is and then we’ll discuss how to stand out at a job fair and network with employers. Throughout this blog post I’ll use job fair and career fair interchangeably as…
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The Best Questions To Ask At the End of a Job Interview
It’s a good idea to prepare questions that you will ask at the end of a job interview to demonstrate your interest, think strategically, and prove yourself as insightful. Because that is what all job interview advice tells you… Right? As someone who sits on the other side (interviewing job candidates), I am going to tell you to not always take that piece of advice everyone seems to be sharing. You know, the interview advice that states “you need to prepare questions to ask at the end of a job interview”. I have no idea where it started or who started it… But, what I will tell you is that…
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How to Write a Cover Letter That Stands Out
As much as everyone hates writing cover letters when applying for jobs, you’ve gotta do it! Yes, even if it doesn’t get read. I often get the question, do recruiters and managers even read cover letters? I fully admit that I don’t read cover letters. I do read cover letters if I am trying to understand something that doesn’t make sense in a job applicant’s resume. Like for example, I would expect that if they were making a career change that it is being addressed in their cover letter. But that is ME! When I was recruiting, it wasn’t efficient for me – what I needed to see was in…
