Helping You Reach Your Job Search and Career Goals
A while back, I wrote a post entitled, “Three Ways to Add Value to a Company Before Getting Hired.” It still is quite popular, in part because people are finding it when they Google “ways to add value to your company.” Due to this demand for adding value to your company when employed, I’ll give [...]
Negotiating is one of the most-dreaded parts of the job search. Even though it signifies that you have been made an offer, people often choke when it comes time to talk specifically about salary. Watch this amazing video by Ramit Sethi on how to negotiate salary well: I’m going to discuss the third tip in [...]
In reading an article about job hunting, I was flabbergasted by a comment that was made following the article. It read: I still advocate the spray and pray resume approach. You can cover a lot of ground this way and it’s not very time consuming. Honestly, people will catch on quickly if you are getting [...]
Like many couples, my husband and I talk about our respective fields a great deal. Quite often, he’ll throw out some terminology specific to his field of industrial management, and I’ll inquire to its meaning (being the curious type that I am). I end up learning many new things, really. One such conversation we had [...]
Three Ways to Add Value to a Company before Getting Hired
When zeroing in on a specific company or actively going for a particular position, you want to do everything you can to rise to the top as a quality candidate. ‘If only I could show them how they would benefit from bringing me on,’ you think, ‘they would love me!’ So what’s stopping you from [...]