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While it’s only a few hundred words, writing a good follow-up email accomplishes a few important things.
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How to Master Interview Small Talk
9/22/2020
We bet that you have a solid handle on your work experience and skills and can tell your career story backward and forward. But, what about those moments where you’re walking to the interview room, waiting for someone to join or loitering by the elevator on the way out? -
You likely know that there are some types of questions that are off-limits in a job interview, but did you also know that many of these are basically illegal?
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Unlike the professional skills and experiences you gain through formal training or education, soft skills are those elusive interpersonal skills, personality traits, character attributes, or communication styles that will determine how you interact with your colleagues and the success or failure ...
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To navigate each step along the way from interview to a final offer, you should have clear understanding of a timeline of events and what appropriate job search etiquette suggests you do at each step.
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If you’re applying for multiple jobs at the same time, perhaps over several weeks or months, things can quickly spiral out of control. You can easily find yourself with 10 or 20 different versions of your resume or cover letter floating around on your desktop, requests for materials coming at you...
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Background checks, especially at the executive level, have become routine in the recruitment process.
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How to Address Gaps on Your Resume
8/14/2020
We break down how to talk to a future employer about a resume gap depending on the situation that caused it. -
As your organization continues with hiring efforts, interviewers will face new questions from candidates that they’ve never been asked before.
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Whether you’re doing pre-interview research or you’ve already received a job offer and are deciding whether or not to accept it, the research phase of your job search is perhaps the most critical from a job seeker's perspective.
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Here are some of the top questions you should consider asking during an interview regarding COVID-19.
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Is your dream job with a large organization or a small company? It’s common for life sciences professionals to have a preference one way or the other when considering employment opportunities.
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The concept of company culture is a hot topic in the workplace now. Here are some tips to help you be more likable during an interview.
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Don’t forget that you’re also interviewing the company, the team and the manager that you’d be working for, should you be offered the position and accept.
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Finding common ground and making small talk are both skills that help you build that rapport with someone.
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Once you do land your next job interview, you’ll want to address your layoff in the right way. Here’s how.
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It’s one of the biggest sources of anxiety when you’re on the job market: being faced with tough interview questions that you aren’t quite sure how to answer.
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Sometimes you don’t have days or weeks to prepare for a job interview. Sometimes, you may only have a few hours… If you’re called in for a last-minute job interview, don’t assume that there’s nothing meaningful you can do to prepare in the hours and minutes leading up to the meeting.
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Are you a life sciences professional over 40? If so, have you noticed differences in how you’re treated by recruiters and hiring managers during your job search?
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The moment you step on the job market, you’re selling yourself. Yes, you, the job seeker, are a “brand,” and each touchpoint you have with a potential new employer is an opportunity to “sell” that brand, that vision of your candidacy, the promise of yourself as a future team member and employer.