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06/25/2019

Resume writing best practices:

Did you know according research conducted by Forbes that when writing your resume “Metrics are still king”?

Your top accomplishments should reflect the three to five key “superpowers” you offer as value points. Most importantly, remember to script all your accomplishments so that they begin with the metric or impact.
Always begin at the end and work backward.
You will also find this to be a great leadership management tool as you track your accomplishments.

07/28/2017

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06/26/2017

This is a make or break interview question:

"Why did you leave your last job?"

Or:

"Why do you want to leave your job?"

You MUST have a great answer to this question.

Do you want to know where a lot of folks go wrong when they answer?

They sound guilty or embarrased. Not deliberately. It just comes across in the tone and body language of how they respond to this question.

Or – another thing they do – they'll spend too long explaining themselves.

Maybe they were fired, or laid off, or forced out the door.

If something like that happened to you too – if you lost your last job under unfair cicrumstances – there's nothing you can do it about it now.

But you can change the way you tell your story.

And if you figure out a better way to tell the story of how and why you left your old job, and practice telling it, you'll no longer dread this question.

Whatever your story is, here is the key point:

You need to look your interviewer in the eye, and then give them a short and confident response. You don't need to go into all the details. You don't need interviewer sympathy. You want to make it sound like it isn't a big deal.

Stay positive and don't forget body language!

That's how you answer these types of questions.

06/22/2017

Have you ever found yourself stumbling over your words while interviewing?

It's a common problem many folks have. When you're practicing your interview answers in the car, everything is great. But the moment you're sat in front of an interviewer, you feel under pressure and your words start to become garbled.

Here's a trick that helps stop this from happening:

Slow down.

Most folks don't realize how fast they speak -- especially in an interview setting where they're under pressure to deliver all their points quickly.

Chances are, you answer your questions faster than you realize too.

And if you just slow down, you'll have more time to think, and your tongue won't tie itself in knots and trip over itself trying to keep up with your brain.

If you really want to slow down, the the biggest game-changer is to change what you do before the interview. Instead of mentally rehearing your answers, you need to practice speaking them out loud and recording everything.

But, there's a caveat:

For this exercise to be most effective, you need to record yourself practicing your answers under pressure. Because it's pressure that causes you to speak fast in the first place. You need to train yourself to speak slowly under pressure.

As I mentioned yesterday, I actually created a tool for this.

It's called Video Mock Interview -- and it's designed to simulate the same time pressure you feel in a real job interview, while practising at home.

Here's how it works:

It asks you a series of interview questions (for the same bank of questions virtually all job interviewers use) and gives you a short amount of time to answer. (There's a countdown timer.)

Then, when you're finished, you can watch video recordings of yourself answering the question, and look for signs that you're speaking more quickly than you realize (which causes you to stumble over your words).

Over time, as you practice this way, you'll see that your diction becomes more controlled, more powerful, and more confident.

06/19/2017

How do you (gracefully) decline a job offer, without shooting yourself in the foot and getting cut out from future job opportunities?

It's a great question.

Because, just like my grandma always said, when it rains it pours -- and when you crack the code and start securing job offers, you often get many of them.

But not every offer you receive is ideal.

Maybe there's more travel than you exepcted.

Or perhaps the nature of the job, the responsiblities, don't line up to what you were expecting. Or maybe the salary doesn't meet your expectations.

Or -- the most common reason -- another job offer came along.

The most important thing, when turning down a job offer, is this:

DO NOT BURN ANY BRIDGES.

You need to back away through the door, but you also need to leave the door open for furture opportunities. Because what comes around goes around, and you never know when you might come a-knocking again.

Here are my three rules:

(1) Tell them over the phone.

Do NOT write a letter or send an email.

(2) Be truthful, but also be diplomatic.

Don't hurt anyone's feelings.

(3) Express gratitude, appreciation, and a hope that you can stay connected.

Stick to these three rules, and you'll be able to back out the door gracefully without it slamming in your face.

03/17/2017

"Hire for attitude, train for aptitude."

It's often been said by some of the best interviewers:

"Hire for attitude, train for aptitude."

Here's what this means:

You can take someone off the street and teach them how to do your organization's book keeping... but if they have a sloppy, entitled attitude, there is no amount of training or coaching that can fix that.

All the best hiring managers know this truism.

So next time you walk into a job interview, remember to make sure your attitude is exemplary. What do I mean by that?

Demonstrate that you're enthusiastic, efficient, self-motivated; that you're not afraid to work hard; that you can be counted on to show up early every day.

When an interviewer says, "Tell me about yourself", this is what they want to hear. So make sure your story shows off your great attitude.

Because it's one of the most important things they're looking for.

03/16/2017

SELLING YOURSELF VS. BRAGGING

We all know bragging is bad -- but on the flip side, unless you want interviewers to quickly forget you, then you absolutely must sell yourself.

What's the difference?

Between selling yourself and bragging?

Here's where I (and most interviewers) draw the line:

When you make a generic, unsubstantiated claim about how great you are, that's bragging. For example:

"I'm a hard worker."

(Yawn.)

On the other hand, if you were to say:

"I've always delivered every project before the deadline, even if it means staying in late or working over the weekend."

Well, that's a great example of selling yourself.
Here's another Daily Invigoration to help you land that perfect job.

03/15/2017

THE 4 KEYS TO A KILLER RESUME

Do you know what makes a great resume get noticed?

These four things:

#1 -- Designed for immediate impact:

This is a tricky balance to get right. You want your resume to look and feel professional, but at the same time, you want it to stand out.

#2 -- Results, results, results:

Do you know what recruitments, hiring managers, and HR reps all have in common? They don't want you to TELL them what you bring to the table, they want you to SHOW them. How? Through accomplishments with real numbers.

Great resumes let the facts do the talking. They're filled with numbers and achievement-driven language that communicate what you can do.

#3 -- Keywords:

These are important for two reasons: First, recruiters and HR reps often find candidates by searching online directories and job databases. Second, at the beginning, job applications are usually processed by robots.

#4 -- Information is laid out correctly:

Here's what I mean by this: when a recruiter looks for a specific piece of information (e.g. your education, core skills, work experience, etc.) it's exactly where she expects to see it. She doesn't have to search for it.

These are the four things that make a resume great.

03/09/2017

‪INTERVIEW TIPS

Do you want to know the secret to answering open-ended interview questions, like -- "Tell me about yourself..."?

Here it is:

When interviewers ask these types of broad, open-ended questions, what they're really looking for is just one or two pieces of specific information.

When interviewers ask "Tell me about yourself.." really means: "Give me a 30-second elevator pitch on why you're a good fit for this job."‬