Did you watch ABC’s Nightline last night? There was a story about Dale Kloefkorn, an out-of-work, 40-something data analyst with long hair. The network hooked him up with a coach to see if he could give his job search a jump start. The coach, Peggy Klaus, who wrote The Hard Truth About Soft Skills, (read more on […]
Alternate Life Interviewing?
The New York Times‘s Matt Villano recently reported that some companies are offering job interviews and career fairs in Multi-User Virtual Environments, or MUVEs, such as Second Life: Much of the recruitment is done through job fairs. TMP Worldwide Advertising & Communications, an advertising firm in New York, held two virtual job fairs last year, […]
Get Paid To Interview?
And you thought that e-mail inviting you to be paid to interview for jobs was spam, didn’t you? In what could be the ultimate acknowledgement that it is easier to find a job when you have a job, a startup called notchup.com arranges for “passive” job seekers (employed workers who are not seeking opportunities) to be […]
Interviewing Positively
Would you want to hire someone who trashed her former employer? As the next and future employer, you might be concerned about your own reputation should bad blood come between you and the new hire. No matter how much you hated your old boss or loathe your current supervisor, it is a BAD idea to […]
What NOT to Wear to the Interview (or Job)
In an article from the Wall Street Journal Online, Tassels, Pantsuits and Other Interview Fashion Faux-Pas, writer Christina Brinkley uncovers what might be some surprising news about dressing for interviews. We have all heard that we should dress conservatively for an interview. Scuffed shoes, dangling jewelry, too-tight attire – all to be avoided. Some may be […]