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Fashion Career Change Tips: How to Dress for Jobs in Creative Fields
Since I launched my Gen X career coaching firm, I have found that more than 97.9% of my clients (i.e. practically everyone) wants to transition from working in traditional careers where black suits are the norm to more “creative” jobs where bright colors and witty t-shirts rule. Yes, it’s been wild that no one has…
Read MoreNew Ways to Answer that Weakness Question
You hate answering that weakness question during a job interview however you have to come up with something good. Think about weaknesses that are either obvious or specific (i.e. narrow) to a situation and that’s how you can answer the question truthfully yet without taking yourself out of the game. Here are ways to handle…
Read MoreInterview Tips: What questions to ask an interviewer?
You have to keep selling yourself even when the tables are turned during an interview and YOU are asked to crank out the questions. Here are ways to think about asking great questions!
Read MoreSave a Weak Interview, Ask Targeted Questions
The best interviewees also mess up. However, it’s in those ever critical, final five minutes – when it’s their turn to ask questions – that they recover from an initially weaker performance. You too can recover by asking the right questions to the right person i.e. achieving “the perfect match.” You achieve this perfect match…
Read MoreWrite Evidence-based Cover Letters Not Fluff
Generic cover letters or fluff-filled ones are as bad as showing up to an interview with a grossly stained outfit. Yes, you wore the suit but you did not show care by having it dry-cleaned and as a result you look sloppy…the same can be said of a fluff-filled cover letter…it’s just plain sloppy.
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