It is obviously very exciting to receive a job interview call or email. Your heart jumps with a mixture of joy, expectation and apprehension. This is a good time to professionally prepare for that interview. There are some useful steps that you may take to make this preparation and that will infuse a certain confidence in you to face the interview.
Resume and Cover Letter – Suit and Tie
A good cover letter should always accompany your resume. A well written resume is like a well stitched suit. It should contain all relevant information about your strengths, qualifications and experience, if any. A cover letter gives you an opportunity to say something about the organization and can enhance the effect of your resume, just like a good tie adds to the look of a suit.
5-Step Preparation For A Job Search Mindset
To start a search for a job is a full fledged endeavor and you need a proper job search mindset for it to be successful. A casual approach to job searching will at best land you a casual job and at worst keep you unemployed. Before actually embarking on your search, consider these 5 steps outlined to get you into a job search mindset for success.
The 5-Step Career Planning Starter
Good Career planning follows the same principles as planning for any other important venture in life. That’s why a career planning starter should be given some real serious and informed thinking. There are numerous ways people plan what they decide to do for a living in their lives, but time tested universal techniques apply to most of us.
Good Wines And Great Careers
Making a great career is a perpetual exercise where you consistently update yourself with the latest in your chosen career path. The aging process and the patience of a wine maker has always struck me as being very similar to what we need for a career to flourish. Just like wine aging, if you give your career proper conditions, then a bold flavor is added to your career that the world calls a success story.
Three Key Differences Between Jobs & Careers
A job comprises a certain amount of work, performed as part of one’s occupation, in return for an agreed remuneration. It can be full time or part-time. Career can be defined as a complete occupation or profession that requires a certain level of training and/or education, usually followed over the working lifetime of an employee.