Career Tips, Insights and Career Advice by Paul Freiberger
Decide to Decide. Before you make any first step, you make the decision to move your foot. The same thing happens in your job search. You can spend a lot of time dreaming about your dream job. That gets you nowhere. You can decide to take the first step toward ...
When a job seeker goes in for a job interview, most people are sure to dress appropriately and to bring with them an updated copy of their resume. However, that's not all of the "cleaning up" that you should be doing. Your profile on sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook ...
Visualizing your success at an interview generally helps the interview go better than otherwise, and it may make you feel that you were talking with old friends. Think of someone you respect—a friend, a movie star, anyone you admire who would handle an interview deftly. Imagine that person throughout ...
This New York Times simulation got me thinking. The Summer Olympics come just once every four years. Because of that, there's a lot of pressure on the athletes to hold nothing back as they attempt to win a gold medal in their event. The difference between glory and despair is ...
Suppose a top baseball player like Albert Pujols submitted a resume to join your team. Would it say, "Responsible for getting hits and covering first base on ground balls"? Not likely, since every first baseman does that. Instead, it would stress his benefits to your team: his batting average, slugging ...
There are few shortcuts, unfortunately.But there are two. I'll talk about one today:The Inside Contact.You have got to take advantage of the people you know.You need a good resume. This helps of course. Occasionally the right resume will impress someone and get passed on to the ...
Your facial expressions can help determine the outcome of a job interview. I advise my clients of this, telling them to work on developing a sincere smile for the initial greeting, for example. But some are skeptical. So I decided to speak with an expert on this subject. Author Daniel ...
The art of playing along. That is accompaniment in music. In job search it's even more. What accompanies the resume? It should be a carefully written cover letter.Don't let the name fool you. “Cover letter” suggests afterthought, slap-on status. Yet it is critical, since:It speaks for you before ...
Over a few short years, LinkedIn has blossomed into the most powerful professional networking site on the Internet. It gives a range of capabilities to both jobseekers and employed professionals. I've been focusing increasingly on aiding my clients to use it effectively. Often LinkedIn has been one of the ...
Times are tough and people are taking radical measures. The unemployment rate is increasing rapidly and people who have been unemployed for months or longer are becoming more frustrated. One toy industry executive has taken to walking the streets of New York wearing a sandwich board that advertises his need ...
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