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Tips For Success In Your Job Interviewing Process (Part 2)

* When answering interview questions, first pause to make sure that you understand the question and then answer it, providing personal examples, if appropriate.
* During the interview, make sure that maintain good eye contact with the interviewer, but not constant eye contact, and periodically smile.
* When you are asked if you have any questions, find out how the position that you are interviewing for relates to other positions, what a typical day is like, etc. It is generally not advisable to ask about the salary or benefits offered until a job offer is made.
* At the end of the interview, thank the interviewer(s) for their time, express a strong interest in the position, and inquire as to when a decision might be made regarding filling the job.
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Tips For Success In Your Job Interviewing Process (Part 1)

Here are some tips to make your job interviewing go more smoothly:

* Write down the name of the individual (s) you will be interviewing with and their respective professional titles.
* Consider taking a “dry run” to the place where the interview will be conducted so that there are no last minute jitters on the day of the interview.
* Prepare copies of your resume and letters of reference and bring them to your interview so that you will have plenty to distribute, if necessary.
* If you have a gap in your job history, think about how you are going to explain it. Important: Never lie!

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Which Majors Are in Demand?

Employers plan to target business, engineering, and computer-related degrees at both the bachelor’s and master’s degree level in 2007-2008. This year, at the bachelor’s level, the list is topped by accounting, followed by mechanical and electrical engineering, and computer science.

Master’s level

At the doctorate degree level, employers will mainly target computer engineering and electrical engineering graduates, followed by computer science, mechanical engineering, and business administration/management.

Employers looking for graduates with associate degrees, too

The demand for associate degree graduates appears to have dipped slightly for 2007-08 graduates. In 2005-06, 33 percent of employers said they would hire two-year graduates; in 2006-07, it was 39 percent of employers. This year, only 27 percent plan to hire associate degree graduates.

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Australia’s top 10.

by: Christine Zafra

College graduates who will begin their careers this spring will find the offerings in the job market a range of unique and highly-rewarding employment opportunities, according to industry research firm IBIS World, Inc. As one of Austraia’s most respected independent publishers of business intelligence research reports, IBIS World today announced its top 10 industry picks offering the fastest growing number of jobs and growth in wages.

1. Tattersall’s Holdings
2. Visy Industries
3. Murray Goulburn Co-op
4. Queensland Sugar
5. City Ford
6. Multiplex Constructions
7. MBF Australia
8. JGL Investments
9. Retravision
10. Dairy Farmers Group

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Online job hunting is the way to go!

by: Christine Zafra

The candidate’s recruitment preference nowadays is online. Online job postings do offer engagement opportunities (same as the traditional job search) – they just take place in a virtual environment. I do miss talking to candidates in the early stages of recruitment, but you have to replicate that contact at a later stage or in another form, through organized focus groups, online networking or by visiting assessment centers.

Since the boom of the internet, computers have been the number 1 vehicle of online job seeking. It is like an online “market” (for jobs) since the sellers (or the companies for this matter) and buyers (the job seekers) meet here.

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Connexions: providing training and jobs for 1-19 y.o.

by: Christine Zafra

Unemployment is a big issue nowadays. A lot of people try to look for jobs, hoping to make ends meet and chip in to their family’s daily sustenance. It’s quite hard to imagine a family of 6 with only a single breadwinner working to keep up with the family’s needs. In addition, lack of education in the part of the kids can worsen things up. If we are to think ahead, these kids will be the future breadwinners of their own families.

However, to those teenagers in UK who wish to work (ages 13 to 19), there is a job aggregate specifically made for you. Connexions provides job opportunities, trainings, and others to teenagers within that age group.

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Adult education?

by: Christine Zafra

You can’t teach old dogs new tricks.

It seems that this saying is not applicable to those adults who wish to study new courses to widen their knowledge (can be for business purposes too) about things. Surely, the online education hoped to bring learning into each person’s homes, and this has been proven beneficial to adults who wish to start anew. Yes, the adults.

This is just one of several new online programs designed to teach adults at their own comfort, convenience and pace while sitting down in front of their own computers. There are a lot of course offerings on the internet for adult education. For the wedding planner course for example, students learn everything they need to know for them to either obtain employment with an established bridal consultant or start their own wedding planning business in the future.

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Safety Tip for the Online Job Hunter: Depersonalize your Resume

When we are eager to apply for a job on the internet, sometimes we forget that the information we send can be viewed by those who are up to no good. If you reveal too much on your resume, there is a chance that the information may be used against you. Hide these details: your home address, home phone number (use your cellphone number instead), Social Security number, date of birth, photo, marital status or mother’s maiden name, references, and former employer’s company name. Remember: better safe than sorry. The certainty of your safety is worth more than a chance of employment.

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UK job seekers rely on internet for job search.

by: Christine Zafra

In the United Kingdom, job seekers can say ‘thank you’ to the internet for providing a specific service to them: job seeking.

Taleo Research, a private owned research company, made a survey among job seekers in UK. It was revealed that about half of the population (43 percent to be exact), relied on the internet for their job search. Since it’s an all access portal, both companies and job seekers benefit from this. It’s actually very convenient to search for job openings on the internet since you can do it at home compared to doing leg work, visit company offices and ask if they have job openings. Doing the latter can sometimes make the job seeker go home empty handed.

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Should this startle job seekers?

by: Christine Zafra

Do I smell problem ahead?

The Conference Board, thorough their Help-Wanted OnLine Data Series program, conducted an examination about the number of online job vacancies in the United States. This company has been keeping track on online job postings in America since its conception in 2005. Apparently, from the data gathered, there was a 0.6% drop from last year’s data until arch of this year. That entails about a loss of 21,200 job offerings online.

If this trend goes on, a lot of people will find themselves unemployed. This is a bad sign due to the fact that this entails that a lot of families will go hungry in the near future.

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