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Unless you’re a newly inaugurated political leader, it’s hard to imagine anyone giving your 5 year plan a second thought. However, hiring managers often encourage candidates to take an introspective moment and answer, “Where do you want to be in 5 years?” That response can have a substantial impact on your chances for success.
Answers to “where do you want to be in 5 years?” can provide hiring managers with a wealth of insight about…
Why Your 5 Year Plan Matters in Job Interviews:View
It always helps to be prepared for a manufacturing interview, and the last thing you want to do is sit down with a hiring manager without knowing what common interview questions will be asked. Thankfully, most of them are not unique snowflakes.
If you have a manufacturing interview on the horizon, make sure you are ready to answer these common interview questions.
What was the least successful project? How did you respond?
During the…
4 Common Questions to Expect During a Manufacturing Interview:View
Want to use a recruiter in your job search? It can increase your chances of success.
Recruiters can open up new jobs. They can act as a megaphone, making your name and qualifications heard by businesses that pique your interests. With the right selling points, recruiters can even distinguish you from steep competition.
So, keep these tips in mind and you can substantially shorten your job search.
Be specific – Recruiters want to get to the…
How to Help a Recruiter Shorten Your Job Search:View
It can be hard to figure out why you didn’t get the job, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t narrow down the possibilities. If you are suffering from constant rejection, try sitting down to reflect on where you could be going wrong. It could be any of the following aspects of your job search.
Your resume or cover letter sunk your chances
If you not only didn’t get the job but couldn’t even get to the interview, your resume or cover…
Why You Didn’t Get the Job (And What You Can Do About it):View
Sometimes the simplest questions can be the hardest to answer.
In a job interview, you expect to be asked certain common interview questions. These allow interviewers to distill your professional career down to positive and negative attributes which can then be weighed. Most interview questions can be easily decoded but “why do you want this job?” is almost a bit oversimplified.
Do you just give your unfiltered opinion? Will any old answer…
The Right Answer to “Why Do You Want This Job?”:View
With the idea of the six second rule looming over you, writing the perfect resume summary can be a stressful chore. You only have a handful of seconds to convince the hiring manager to keep reading your resume, and each one of them is crucial to your chances of getting the job.
But writing a good resume summary is likely different from anything you have ever written before. It requires your writing to be as brief as it is potent.
Resume…
Here’s How to Write the Perfect Resume Summary:View
Your job interview isn’t like the Dating Game. The interviewer doesn’t sit on one side of a partition, rattling off questions until he or she figures you out. Both people are out in the open and questions can fly back and forth until you’ve both made your decision.
This doesn’t give you the license to glibly ask whatever comes to mind. Some questions can make a hiring manager leery of your intent. Others can sour a budding rapport. At…
5 Questions You Want to Ask Interviewers (But Know You Shouldn’t):View
Applying for a new job probably isn’t your idea of a good time. The entire job search can be time-consuming, whittling away at your precious hours before and after work.
It’s easy to become distracted by mindless entertainment (TV shows, mobile apps, and websites) when you should be applying for jobs. However, you can take back the reins.
These six methods eliminate distractions and help job seekers to take control when the urge to…
Burned out by your job search? Here’s how to stay focused:View
If your job search has been on hiatus, chances are that your resume needs a tune up. New wax and some tinkering can help you to get more mileage out of every word.
But what goes and what stays? Follow these tips as you think over how to give your resume the jumpstart it needs.
Stale Experience
Has a particular technology in your toolkit fallen out of use? Including outmoded technology can make a resume sound dated. Identify which technologies…
4 Ways to Keep Your Resume Fresh:View
Slow and steady seems to be the model of job growth this year.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the March jobs report Friday morning, revealing that the economy continues to move in the right direction, albeit at a glacial pace. While the results are positive for the economy overall, the Manufacturing sector saw little movement in its sectors last month.
The numbers
According to the BLS report, 192,000 non-farm payroll jobs were added in…
Manufacturing and the March Jobs Report:View
