Career Advice & Insights

A job interview is like dating — you want to seem interested but not overly interested to the point where you’re undesirable — available but in demand, agreeable but with limits. People look for jobs for all sorts of reasons. You may want more money. You may want to work in a field that offers … Read More

They will want you to reveal your salary history, but hold fast, and win the job offer before you establish your salary negotiation. The Ten Commandments of Salary Negotiation (Part 3): Salary expert Jack Chapman offers 10 lessons on salary negotiation in the vein of the Ten Commandments. Employers want to know your most recent … Read More

Test your thank-you letter to determine whether it would pass muster with our panel of hiring professionals. A well-crafted thank-you note following a successful job interview could be the tipping point that pushes you into the job candidate finalist category. “The thank-you note remains one of the most overlooked marketing tools of the job search,” … Read More

Negotiating a salary is tricky enough. Try negotiating for intangible benefits like a four-day workweek or a work-from-home arrangement. There are few situations you will face in your career more delicate than negotiating a salary, unless you are negotiating a more abstract benefit, like a four-day workweek or enhanced medical coverage. Negotiating for those intangible … Read More

Inappropriate interview questions and how to respond (diplomatically). He was in his early 50s, and he looked every bit of it. The questions on the job application went right to his age. After stewing over the form and discarding his first draft, he filled out a second copy. Then, he sat and waited for his … Read More

Those interview questions you answer may have been designed by a computer. Next time you step into a job interview, you may be facing more than a savvy but lone human resources manager or hiring manager; she may be backed up by a computer program. Recruiters and human resources professionals are using technology to stack … Read More

The job description was lost in translation, and you may be interviewing for the wrong position. You might be interviewing for the wrong positions, and it may not be your fault. It’s probably not the recruiter’s fault either. The job descriptions that recruiters use to guide their candidate searches, and which you use to apply … Read More

The job interview process is really just a series of approvals and referrals. Ultimately you want a job, but broken down to its elements, what you really want is a series of approvals. The job interview process isn’t about convincing someone to hire you — not until the final stage, anyway — it is about … Read More

Understanding the typical schedule and purpose of each round can prepare you to face each and give you an advantage in the hiring process.   Before you hear the words, “You’re hired,” you will typically sit through three separate interview sessions … at least. You prepared for the first interview. So you’re prepared for the … Read More