Job interview – Loose the interview in Six direct ways

Job interview is intended to see your compatibility to the future employer specifically to the manager you will be reporting to and other team members.

Here are six direct ways to loose the job interview

• Start bad -Show up late for the interview with a lousy explanation or even don’t even notify the interviewer that you are late

• Irritate Job interviewer through out the interview – simple ways is to keep your cell phone on , interrupt interviewer , take bathroom breaks between, Make sensual gestures or even top with a bad mouth order or even “Gas leaks”
• Go unprepared – only amateurs needs preparation, you are smart enough to answer any questions on the fly
• Be Arrogant – The truth is employer needs your skills as much as they need you to be profitable.
• Demand your Salary – Start your Salary conversation as early as possible
• Bad mouth your Previous Manager – There is nothing wrong in taking the “Truth” about your previous Manager.

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Job interview – Loose the interview in Six indirect ways

Job interview is intended to see your compatibility to the future employer specifically to the manager you will be reporting to and other team members.

Here are six accidental ways to loose the job interview

• Inappropriate or Unsatisfactory Answers – Most of us prepare hard for the interview but make sure to build an answer that is satisfactory and appropriate.
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  Accidental inappropriate behaviors – We all have in some behaviors that are part of our reflexes try hard to avoid them example “picking nose” .
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  Contradicting your Resume – There is nothing worst than Contradicting what you say on interview than what is written in resume .
• Tell an inappropriate joke – This happen when the interview is friendly and we some times tent to go over board and tell an inappropriate joke that will cost you the job
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  Press hard to get the interview – We all desperately need job however if we press hard the employer that can back fire. Remember the objective of the interview is to get you to the next level try to focus on selling your skills and your fitness to the organization .
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  Ask dump questions or no questions at all – This is the most common mistake made by candidate in interview and can be avoided by preparing ahead.

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Resume – Six flaws in resume writing - The Marketing Floppers

Resume is the tool that gets you to the next step – interview, here are the Six flaws that prevents you to the next step.

• Lack of Relevant Key words- Today Most of the employers use electronic job matching tools to pick the right resume from their job banks Many resumes fail to make this round .
• Lack of Responsibility – Resume has lots of stuff including description about projects/jobs however has no responsibility or list of any achievements.
• Over Blown resume – Many resume writers think that they can trick the employer with over blowing their expertise .
• Nothing Catchy – Resume fails to show any reason for the employer to get you in for an interview especially the question of what I have accomplished so far.
• Disoriented Resume - Resume with Spelling, grammatical mistakes and lack of any standard format will never get you an interview .
• Over Touched Resume – Resumes with more creativity can be used if you are applying for a job as creative writer or marketing other wise use standard formats.

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Resume – The Marketing tool – Six Tips for resume writing

Resume is the tool that gets you to the next step – interview, here are the Six Tips to build a powerful resume

• Compile Skills – Start with making a list of all your skills has been utilized or skills you know, review thru as may Job Requirements as possible to get the list of skills you want to add to your resume
• Synergize. Second step is to gather your Responsibilities not Job Functions for each job you held
• Utilize PAR Technique - Third step is to use the PAR “Problem Action Results” technique to see what you have accomplished in each job with quantitative support
• Compile Key words – Fourth step is to compile a list of key words to be use liberally in your resume make sure to use both abbreviation and expanded form for example MBA and Masters in Business Administration
• Organize it - Fifth step is to Utilize the chronological way to organize your resume
• Package it – Finally Create a objective that would summarize your skills and why you should be hired .

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Surviving Layoff –six survival tips – after the Pink Slip

These six survival tips should be your basic building blocks.

• Cash Flow – Review outgoing and incoming cash flow
• Review/renew contacts – identify personal and business resources who can help you to get the next job.
• Position your self – Important to Know yourself to stand up to the competition
• Resume – Develop a resume with winning components and Keywords
• Review Skills – Review job postings to see what skills are in demand that are close to the job you are looking for if possible polish on your skills
• Tweak Interviewing styles - 90 % of us go unprepared for an interview with is the critical part of the job search process

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Surviving Layoff –six survival tips – before the Pink Slip

These six survival tips should be your basic building blocks.

• Cash Flow – Review outgoing and incoming cash flow
• Review/renew contacts – identify personal and business resources who can help you or whom you can help. This is the great time to build contacts.
• Know your position – Many of us tent to overstate or under estimate our demand in the job market this is the right time to take a good look at your skills and yourself.
• Review Skills – Review job postings to see what skills are in demand that are close to the job you are looking for if possible polish on your skills
• Resume – Develop a resume with winning components and Keywords start posting it to see what kind of response you get .
• Start interview preparation - 90 % of us go unprepared for an interview with is the critical part of the job search process

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Surviving Layoff –Cash Flow – after the Pink Slip

Regardless of your Job position , skills or your Street smartness the most smart thing to do after a layoff is to manage your Cash flow.

• 1> Review the outgoing Cash – Important to identify where money is going and how much.
• 2> Review the incoming cash- You are not the US government to spend as you wish with out money coming in. Review your incoming cash where you will get money from and how much.
• 3> Prioritize what to pay – When you are in a cash trap situation you need to analyze what can wait and what can not wait and by how much
• 4> Raise Cash – regarless of what you are “cash is King” try to raise as much cash as possible should you don’t have enough
• 5> Plan a budget for 8 months- It takes on a average of 6 months to get a job and be settled on it have a budget and fit you needs to the budget
• 6> Identify Cash resources – it is important to know some cash resources which you can tap in case of an emergency example May be a credit card or Friend or loan centers

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Surviving Layoff – Cash Flow – before the Pink Slip

Regardless of your Job position , skills or your Street smartness the most smart thing to do after a layoff is to manage your Cash flow. Since you still have a job this is the best time to review your cash flow.

• 1> Review the outgoing Cash – Important to identify where money is going and how much.
• 2> Review the incoming cash- You are not the US government to spend as you wish with out money coming in. Review your incoming cash where you will get money from and how much.
• 3> Plan 2 budgets for 8 months- Create 2 budgets one takes into account you have a job and other takes into account your worst case scenario.
• 4> Raise Cash – “cash is King” Raise as much cash as possible so as to survive for 8 months
• 5> Identify Cash resources – it is important to know some cash resources which you can tap in case of an emergency example May be a credit card or Friend or loan centers
• 6> Avoid Temptation to be greedy – You may see lots of good deals which appears to be a simple magic box to make money stay away or at least be extremely cautions .

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