How To

Townley Paton, president and owner of InterviewClips.com, shared these additional tips on how to best produce a video resume. Read More

Here’s how one company takes a multimedia approach to personal branding. A few years ago, the idea of posting a video highlighting your professional and academic achievements online was regarded as a novelty. Some job seekers tried it, but they risked public scorn. Aleksey Vayner was perhaps the best-known poster child for video resumes gone … Read More

Treat every interview as prime time for your career prospects, even when no one can see you. If you are facing a phone screen early in the interview process, be sure to treat it as seriously as an in-person interview, because you probably won’t get a face-to-face meeting if you don’t impress on the phone … Read More

Before you face the hiring manager, you’ll probably spend some time on the phone with the company’s HR department. Here’s what it takes to win them over. If your resume passes muster for a job to which you’ve applied, a phone screen will probably be your next stop. Human-resources and hiring managers just don’t have … Read More

Some say panel interviews feel like inquisitions. Follow these steps to get through the final round. What if you were in the hot seat? You’re a six-figure job seeker, an executive. The search took a little longer than you thought, but now it’s time to close the deal. The last stage is the panel interview … Read More

Don’t give up! Here’s how to tweak your resume and try again. She was a senior human-resources professional who was laid off in summer 2009 from her job at large hospital in Texas. After the layoff, she did everything she knew from her years in HR would help her land a job. She woke early … Read More

The risk is high for job seekers who try to slip fake master’s degrees, phony salaries and exaggerated titles into their resume and job interview. Thinking of padding your resume to increase your chance of landing a job in this weak economy? Think again. History is littered with names such as these: George O’Leary, former … Read More

Employers already know your goal is to get a job, so ditch the objective statement and instead write a summary that compels them to read on. Are you “looking to obtain a challenging position that will facilitate your work ethic”? “Seeking to obtain this challenging position in,” oh, let’s say the music industry? Perhaps you … Read More

Your story is better than your resume. Use these five points to make your point faster and tell your story better. Looking for a job is nothing but making a point… A point about your value. A point about your accomplishments. A point about your contribution to an organization. Whether you’re networking, interviewing or chatting … Read More