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The Most Important Interview Questions - Photo by Alexander Drachman Whats the question that every interview includes? It may be phrased in a number of ways, but it is the underlying question in every single interview query: Why should we hire you? After all, interviewers want you to sell yourself. Its not up to them to figure out if you are a good match; it is up to you to draw the lines, connect the dots between your skills and their needs. If you dont know why they should hire you, you certainly wont be able to convince anyone else! Whats the other most important interview question? Tell me about yourself. Even if you are an experienced or seasoned professional do NOT consider this question an opportunity to launch into your life story. If you cant zero in on a few brief autobiographical details and connect them to the position, you will be wasting your time and the interviewers patience. So, how should you prepare to address these questions? Refer to your elevator pitch. Your pitch, which should contain information about you and your skills (customizible to individual targets) will focus on what problem you can help solve, include specifics about your abilities and accomplishments and demonstrate your expertise, interest and enthusiasm for their organization. Of course, all of these will be focused on the organizations needs. Your answers should NOT focus on what they can do for you make sure you demonstrate how you can impact them in a positive way. I invite you to refer to some of my earlier blogs for more advice about how to respond to interview questions to GET the job: 5 Tips to Turn Your Interviewer Into A Fan Behavioral Interview: Have STAR Stories to Share Keppie Careers will help you figure out why the interviewer should hire you and give you the tools and information to make sure that you can do it! Do you need a resume? A mock interview? Keppie Careers can help: www.keppiecareers.com.

Keywords to Use in Tech Writing Resume

Keywords to Use in Tech Writing ResumeAs in all areas of life, the selection of key words to use in tech writing resume is very important. You may use them yourself, or you may choose to let a professional writer create them for you.I am not here to tell you that you should be using this one word or that one word. I'm not even sure if it's even an option. We're just trying to find out which are the most common keywords, and which ones are best avoided. There are many more options than I can list here, but this is a simple one.And one word that you will have to decide for yourself. Just as with key words to use in every other area of your resume, you'll want to go with your gut when selecting keywords. Consider what works best for you resume.There is a growing demand for the Internet, and that requires people who know how to speak the language and use it well in today's world. Having the correct words in tech writing resume will help you create a unique resume that will get you notice d and picked up by the right candidates.To be competitive in today's world, you will need to stand out from the crowd, and be relevant to the job requirements you are submitting to search engines. In addition, you'll want to look for keywords that are specific to the job you're applying for. I know it seems like too much work, but there are so many others out there who are getting by without a few keywords or key phrases. In fact, many people have no idea what they're looking for!Of course, you won't find the perfect keywords by doing research, unless you have time. But, you can increase your chances of finding them on your own. If you are at a computer, there are plenty of free sources of information, such as the internet.If you search for 'search engines'job vacancy sites', you will find thousands of sites and pages about search engines, job vacancies, and other positions. You can use these sites to check out keywords you're interested in. If there are keywords you can use, then t ry out these sites. You'll be surprised at how quickly you find the right keywords, if you do it yourself.

Girl Scout Cookie Sales Secrets From the Top Sellers

Girl Scout Cookie Sales Secrets From the Top Sellers Dieters, brace yourselves: A battalion of schoolgirls has taken aim at your willpower. Armed with Trefoils and Do-si-dos, these persistent peddlers have infiltrated sidewalks, malls, and your Facebook pages â€" laying waste to calorie counts and racking up millions of boxes of cookie sales. About half of the world’s 1.9 million Girl Scouts participate in the annual fundraiser â€" now in its hundredth year â€" that bankrolls the organization’s projects, field trips, and community service initiatives. (All proceeds go to the local troop and council, a Girl Scouts spokeswoman says, but local councils may award prizes to top local sellers.) And while the average Scout sells 150 to 200 boxes of cookies each season, some Samoa slingers go well beyond that, selling thousands of boxes apiece. Here, five top Girl Scout cookie sellers spill their trade secrets. Youtube Julia Vieira Reis â€" Girl Scouts of Connecticut Level: Cadette (11 years old) Favorite cookie: Savannah Smiles Personal record: 2,200 boxes In 2014, the Scouts launched a digital cookie platform that lets scouts make sales through personalized websites â€" particularly useful for those with relatives across the country. Last year, Julia created a parody video of Adele’s “Hello” (“Hello from the outside, I must have knocked a thousand times”) and uploaded it to Facebook. The video was a hit among her friends and family, and drove lots of traffic to her personal cookie page. Julia is also a master of the personal brand: For Christmas, she asked her mom for business cards that list her website and her mom’s phone number. Now when she goes door to door, she leaves a card with customers: “That way, if they need any more, they can call you,” she says. “So you can continue to get sales.” Najah Lorde | courtesy of subject   Najah Lorde â€" Girl Scouts of Greater New York Level: Ambassador (15 years old) Favorite cookie: “Not a sweets person” Personal record: 2,833 boxes Like many Girl Scout troops, Najah’s sells cookies as pre-orders, so she doesn’t have the product on hand to tempt potential customers. Luckily, Najah is a master of phone sales. On the first day of her troop’s cookie season, Najah borrows her parents’ cell phones, locks herself in her bedroom, and calls everyone on their contact lists. Then, she nails the upsell. “I try to get them to buy a little more than they originally wanted,” she says. “Say they wanted to buy two boxes,” which would cost $8. “I’ll say, ‘Well, I mean, if you buy five boxes, that’s just $20, so instead of giving me a bunch of bills, you can just give me one bill and then we’re good to go.’” Najah also does face-to-face sales at church, school, and her parents’ offices. Killing the cookie game she says, is all about determination. “Everywhere I go is a possibility of a new sale.” Dierdre Moore | courtesy of subject Dierdre Moore â€" Girl Scouts of Eastern Oklahoma Level: Ambassador (17 years old) Favorite cookie: Tagalongs Personal record: 3,624 Talk about motivation: Dierdre’s troop uses the money raised in cookie sales for some pretty serious travel. In 2015, her troop went to Costa Rica; this year, they’re going to Greece. (Greece!) That gets the whole team fired up, says Dierdre, who estimates that she’s sold upward of 10,000 boxes of cookies over her dozen years in the Girl Scouts. And numbers matter: Every season, her troop floods the zone outside local shopping centers and superstores, setting up multiple cookie booths. Working with other scouts is “definitely an advantage,” she says. “Especially if there are two doors at a Walmart. We can get both doors.” Althea Collier â€" Girl Scouts of Greater New York Level: Cadette (12 years old) Personal Record: 1,500 boxes Favorite cookie: Samoas Althea’s Manhattan neighborhood isn’t great for door-to-door sales â€" too many apartment buildings, she says â€" so she has to improvise. Every weekend, Althea and her dad set up a cookie booth in front of Columbia University, in an area that sees a lot of foot traffic from students and passersby. Putting yourself out there isn’t easy, she admits. “I was really scared the first time we did it,” Althea says. “I didn’t get many sales that day, because I really just wanted to go home.” When she took a second stab at it, she knew she had to go all in. “The next time I decided to really put myself out there, she says. “I told myself to be brave.” Now, she says, “I always try to sell out.” Cassidy Hunt â€" Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles Level: Ambassador (17 years old) Personal record: 3,500 Favorite cookie: Thin Mints (but she offers a caveat: “It’s like having to pick out your favorite child”) As a Girl Scout veteran, Cassidy has loads of cookie-selling experience. But the years she has over most scouts can be a detriment, she says. “People usually want to buy their cookies from a little girl with pigtails,” she says. “I have to put a little more work into it.” To snag customers, Cassidy pushes the philanthropy angle, talking up the community service projects and educational opportunities that the cookies help fund â€" an annual food drive for the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank, for instance, or making holiday cards for kids in juvenile detention. It’s not easy, but Cassidy â€" and the rest of the girls on this list, for that matter â€" does the bulk of the work herself, without much help from her parents. “I want to be the center of sales,” she says.

7 Key Ways To Promote Your Personal Brand - Work It Daily

7 Key Ways To Promote Your Personal Brand - Work It Daily By now, you understand finding the perfect job requires more than simply writing a resume and posting it online. In fact, if you are going to take the “apply online” approach, you should spend no more than two hours per week at it. Less than 5% of jobs are ever posted online, so if you are going to find your next job fast you need to spend your time elsewhere. Related: What’s A Personal Brand And Why Do You Need One? The successful and savvy job seeker will develop a compelling personal brand and spend 75% of their time (or more) promoting it. Here are seven key ways to promote your personal brand: 1. Buy Printed Business Cards I am consistently shocked by the number of job seekers who have absolutely NO way of letting other people know how to contact them other than by shoving a resume in their face. And no, the ones you print at home on your own computer are NOT good enough! Business cards are inexpensive. Sometimes you can even get free business cards from places like Prints Made Easy or free shipping from stores like Office Max. As for what to put on your card? I recommend the minimalist approach. Put your name, e-mail address, phone, and LinkedIn profile address. You don’t need a title or a cute picture. Get a non-glossy finish and leave the back empty so people can jot down notes about you. When you're done reading this article, learn the three rules to smart business card etiquette. 2. Develop A Concise Elevator Pitch Give just enough information to make people want to ask you to tell them more. Don’t focus on your past, instead focus on your future. Nobody cares you have 15 years experience in micro-processors. They want to know what you can do for THEM now! Be memorable, but not flippant or “cutesy.” Lastly, rehearse it at least 100 times out loud BEFORE you use it in a group. You want it to be polished, but not too formulaic. 3. Show Up You have business cards and a concise elevator pitch, but what good are they if you sit all day at the computer? Plan a strategy to show up in places where your target audience is (i.e. potential employers in key companies within your target industries) or where the people who know them will be. 4. Listen And Build Trust Networking is NOT about you. It’s about building a relationship. It’s about helping people in your network of friends and colleagues connect for mutual benefit. It’s about finding out what someone else needs and helping them. 5. Complete Your LinkedIn Profile This is one of the most important online tools you will have. A great resource for learning more about how to beef up your LinkedIn account is from Joshua Waldman with Career Enlightenment. Check him out. He’s is THE premiere professional on this topic! 6. Follow Up Develop a press kit you can send if asked. Better yet, create a blog (I like WordPress). Online you can store video clips, PDF files, work examples and much more. 7. Send A Thank You Card Every career coach from here to Katmandu tells their clients to do this. It’s an inexpensive way to keep you on the top of someone’s mind. Personal, handwritten cards get past the usual gatekeepers and are absolutely read by their intended recipient. If these things are true, then why is it so few job seekers actually do it?! I must meet with 10-15 people per week. You would think my mailman and I would be on a first name basis after that. The reality is, only about 1 in 100 send a written thank you card. Does it make an impression? You bet it does! True, I don’t have any job openings. However, I do get calls and emails all the time from people who have openings. If I have a handwritten thank you note on my desk from YOU when I get the call, how much more likely do you think I will be to pass along your name to a prospective employer? Keep thank you notes and stamps at your desk within arms reach, and write thank you notes to everyone you talked to that day â€" in person or on the phone. Do this every night before you go to bed! Include another business card along with a note as to how much you appreciated their time. Trust me, it will make a HUGE difference! I hope you can see these things aren’t difficult. They aren’t hard to remember. They don’t require an advanced degree to implement. They are easy, and there are only seven of them. You can implement this strategy in just one week by doing just one each day. Have fun, and happy hunting! This post was originally published on an earlier date. Related Posts 3 Examples Of Great Personal Branding 14 Things That Impact The Quality Of Your Personal Brand There’s No ‘I’ In Personal Brand   Photo Credit: Shutterstock Have you joined our career growth club?Join Us Today!

How To Format Your Failed Venture On A Resume - Jobscan Blog

How To Format Your Failed Venture On A Resume - Jobscan BlogPosted on October 20, 2016November 9, 2018 by Jobscan Youve spent nearly a year of your life working to create a startup. Youve changed all of your profiles to include your position at the startup. Youve even updated your resume to include your new venture. But then the worst happens your startup goes belly-up.Though you spenta significant amount of time working at your startup, that time doesnt have to be a complete wash in your future job search. Instead, you can spin that experience positively on your resume to land another job. Whether you were a co-founder, a social media coordinator, or IT manager at a failed startup, here are four ways to turn that experience into a plus on your resume.Figure out what youve learned from your failureWhen Jobscans founder James Hu failed in his first startup, he turned his failure into a learning experience. Thats your first step. First, figure out the reasons your business failed. Next , consider what you could have done differently to have made the venture a success. Once youve made your list, you can decide how to articulate what youve learned in your resume, cover letter, and interview.Include your accomplishments in your resumeIn every good resume, you want to list accomplishments you achieved for each position, rather than just noting your daily job duties. These are called accomplishment statements. When listing your failed venture, also list what you did accomplish and focus on the positives. For example, you could say Grew customer baseby 10 percent over four months or Trained five employees on JavaScript. Focusing on what you accomplished rather than ruminating on what you didnt will make your startup a positive on your resume.Incorporate softskills into your resumeNormally, soft skills are a no-no when it comes to resumes. However, if you know how to use them, they can help turn your failed venture into something positive. For example, if youre flexibl e and creative,incorporatethese soft skills under bullet points beneath your startup position on your resume. The trick is to combine your soft skills with hard skills (like the ones below)to prove you possess these qualities. For example, you might say, Flexible managed 20 employees at 10 workplaces across the Seattle metropolitan area.Use measurable, hard skills, like the ones in this list, to camouflage your soft skills.Demonstrate youre a good fit for the jobMore and more employers these days landsee your work life as a career jungle gym rather than a career ladder. You move all over the map, not just in a straight, upward line. Thats why employers will be willing to give you a job, if you demonstrate that youwant the job and are a good fit for it too. To demonstrate your fit for the position, start by scanning your resume and the job posting throughJobscan. Jobscan ensures the keywords on your resume match the Applicant Tracking System (ATS) to make sure the keywords match accu rately. This kind of tailored resume also demonstrates that you really want this job in particular youre not just blindly sending out dozens of cookie-cutter resumes.Your work with a failed venture can demonstrate positive and unusual skills, like comfort with ambiguity, flexibility, and a willingness to take risks. These are qualities employers desire, making your work at a failed company truly look good on a resume.facebook inc Commentswpdevar_comment_1 span,wpdevar_comment_1 iframewidth100% important

The Recently Leaked Secrets to Resume Writing Services, Davie Fl Disclosed

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The Appeal of How to Show Promotions on Resume

The Appeal of How to Show Promotions on Resume How to Show Promotions on Resume - the Story Lets say theres a circumstance in which you leave an organization and return later. All you need to know is when to use each strategy. Thus, its time to earn a new resume. Whether there are any famous and renowned projects which you had the ability to successfully manage then you need to ensure it is a point to mention it in your resume. You may need to list the businesss information each moment, but the hiring manager will be in a position to clearly realize that youve accepted promotions within the exact company. Moving up the career ladder or switching departments within the business, nevertheless, isnt so simple to illustrate since there are more factors to think about. Hiring managers may pass you over in case you do not own a strong resume although you look for a job. They are more concerned with your current responsibilities rather than what you were doing three years ago. Whe re to Find How to Show Promotions on Resume Furthermore, theres no need to compose references available upon request. This kind of summary enables you to show off your finest skills. Have a peek at these examples to select which format is fruchtwein appropriate for you. Today you might believe that listing your prior role is irrelevant in the event the position youre applying for is more in accord with your current one. If you determine that your prior employer has merged with a different organization or has become the topic of an acquisition, list the present name initially, followed by the prior name in parentheses. Finding the businesss mission statement on its website is also an excellent idea. For the interview, youre want several specific examples prepared to share. Things You Should Know About How to Show Promotions on Resume Career progression is what will most effectively illustrate your capacity to produce a valuable contribution later on, which is why its such an important element to your overall resume strategy. If youre interested in a number of the vital skills that you ought to highlight on your resume once youve completed your MBA consider the below. Your resume accomplishments let you describe your very best wins so employers wish to have a gelegenheit on you. If youre in a position to reveal practical examples of what you could do with your knowing, this will result in an extremely desirable MBA resume. A Startling Fact about How to Show Promotions on Resume Uncovered Writing a professional CV that may impress a recruiter is not quite as simple as it seems, especially whenever you wish to display your job promotion or career progress. Do not assume that, because youre asking for an internal promotion, the man reading your resume will be knowledgeable about your work. However much or what type of work experience youve got, theres a resume format that is likely to make your qualifications shine. Try to remember that your resume is intended to sell you as the very best person for the job, so concentrate on describing your achievements rather than detailing all your menial job duties. The idea here is to provide the individual youre going to be speaking to enough meat to ask a good question. So it would help you to make sure you alter your resume to fit the sort of job that youre applying for. As its very much like the second example, this vorkaufsrecht is an issue of style. Much like different abilities, you should only list certifications on your resume that relate to your intended job. Focus on how you format these jobs so you dont seem to be job-hopping. All you have to know to earn a stunning resume job description. A work description is composed of two crucial components, which include Do not make the error of thinking of the sections of your experience from the viewpoint of responsible for. When a business is seeking to hire, they want somebody who will seek out problems until they become urgent and your job on an interview is to express that youve got exceptional problem-solving skills. To begin with, you can have a look at the job posting that the business creating to determine just what is necessary for the position. Then stack each work title and the dates you held the job below the name of the organization. As always, you will start to your present job first.