Informational interviews are a particularly important aspect of job search networking you may have overlooked. They are informal conversations with people working at the companies and in the fields in which you want to work, or people who are within a few degrees of separation from them. This …
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No Summer Vacation From Executive Job Search
With the Memorial Day weekend in your rear view mirror and the July 4th holiday fast approaching, you may think it's a good idea to take a summer vacation from your job search. Think again. This is not the time to hit the brakes entirely. Maybe you were recently laid off and, besides dealing …
Guide to Executive Job Interviews: The How-To’s, Why’s and Best Practices
Whether you're in interviews now, or you've been reading about them or experienced the process in the past, you know how challenging it can be to ace job interviews. There's so much involved with nailing interviews – from preparing for them, to performing well in them, to following up, to landing …
Nail Your Virtual Job Interviews – Things You Need To Know and Do Well
The past few years so many things in our work and personal lives have been shaken up and tested. For instance, virtual job interviews and remote work have become new normals. For many of us, our work and personal lives now intersect in ways we wouldn’t have imagined before the pandemic. With …
Best Ways to Answer “Tell Me About Yourself” in Job Interviews
Chances are you've been hit with the "Tell me about yourself" question in job interviews. That exact phrase may not be what is posed to you. It could instead be: What makes this a tricky question for some is that it's so open-ended. You can really go anywhere with it: What's the best …
Power Posing and Body Language in Job Interviews
You've spent considerable time researching the company you're about to have a job interview with. You're prepared to answer the tough questions and to ask the right questions of your own. But you may not know about another piece of the interview preparation puzzle that is equally important in …
10 Best Ways to Get More Executive Job Interviews
Unless you’re extremely lucky and interviews are flooding in, you'll need to do a lot of work to get more executive job interviews. Getting things in order to present yourself in the right way to attract more opportunities should be foremost in your job search to-do list. Too often the …
Best Ways to Answer “What Is Your Greatest Weakness” in a Job Interview
Answering "What is your greatest weakness?" in a job interview can be a slippery slope. On the one hand, you want to be respectful and honestly answer all interview questions. On the other hand, a weakness is generally considered to be a negative. It's not a good idea to offer negative …
What’s the Best Executive Resume Format and Length?
Often when I speak with executives who are in job search, or planning one, the first thing they ask me is how their executive resume stacks up. Many of them have never been in a job search or haven't faced one for a number of years. They've either slid easily from one company to the next, …
Smart Executive Job Search: How To Sail Through Salary Negotiations
Salary negotiations are imminent . . . you're close to reeling in that great-fit executive job. You've been through a few rounds of interviews with a company you really want to work for, and they're about to make you an offer. Or, maybe you're fortunate enough to be juggling offers from …