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Q-Tips: Quick and Quintessential Tips to Guide Your Job Search and Work Life

 

Job-hunting tips from the June 13, 2011, issue of QuintZine.

 

 

Tim Tyrell-Smith of Tim's Strategy is developing a high-quality series of short videos with "Smart Tips" about aspects of the job search. At less than a minute, Keys To A Successful Job Interview is a concise overview on how to make a great first impression during your job interview. Find it here.

 

 

 

Our regular contributor Deborah Brown-Volkman offers this tip about focusing on the interviewer's needs in an interview: "Everyone wants to be seen as someone who can do a job well. But if the interview is only about you, and you are only concerned about you, the interviewer will be wondering about them. Take the focus off yourself and instead put your energies on the person you are talking to. Find out about them; what they want and what's important to them. Sometimes when I debrief a client after an interview, I ask what the interviewer struggled with the most. Most don't know. When you go into helpful mode, you forget about yourself, and your concentration shifts to the other person. This is when the real you comes out."

 

 

 

Here are three articles on interviewing that have caught our eye recently: In Job Interview? 9 Great Tips to Get You to Round 2, Amy Levin-Epstein suggests some novel approaches, such as asking upfront why the employer wouldn't hire you, preparing sound bites, asking for homework, recording a pre-interview practice, and bringing props. Although ostensibly for doctors, Eve Harris's 8 Job Interview Phrases Decoded for Physicians analyzes for any job-seeker what employers are looking in eight common interview questions. And, Monster.com's The 'Elephants' in the Job Interview: Handling Difficult (but Impossible to Ignore) Topics tells how to handle situations such as a termination (either through firing or quitting in an angry blowup), an aggressive/hostile interviewer, or one with which you have no rapport.

 

 

 

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