How to Work with a Recruiter

Consider recruiters as your business partners in a very serious project – job search. Being treated this way they would feel more respectable and therefore may be helpful.

Be honest with them and speak openly about any concerns you may have regarding a potential job opportunity, so that they could help you. Of course, it depends on how professional your recruiter is. A professional recruiter always appreciates integrity of their candidates, which helps them coordinate their work properly and find the right fit. Continue reading

Probationary Period – Ways to Survive

There are no specific terms of how long the probationary period may last. It might take from 3 to 12 months, depending on the position, type of organization or industry specifics. Regardless of this, the goal for someone going through a probationary period remains always the same – to survive in the new job. Even if you managed to survive the probationary period, you should not put down your efforts any further. Remember that you remain a novice for at least one year or more. Anything could happen in the organization and the last person who joined it would be the first to go. Continue reading

You’re Fired…

Regretfully, no one can feel secured against the situation when your employer once says to you that the company requires your service no longer. Many reasons might cause this decision. And if it is almost impossible to prevent a situation like this, you’d probably be interested in what the reason was and how to deal with it.

Trying not to show any emotional disturbance, attempt to find out if: Continue reading

What Else You Need to Know about Your Potential Employer

Unquestionable is the importance of a good knowledge and clear understanding of the company you are interviewing with.  To know what the company does and where it is in terms of its financial situation is important information to have, not only to impress your interviewer, but also and foremost for yourself to help you make right decision.  There is an example. Continue reading

Who Benefits from Interview Tips?

It is really fun to read sometimes about how awkward job candidates’ behaviour might be during the job interview. Smelling own armpits while going to a boardroom has already become the talk of the town. It is hard to disagree that stress may, to certain extent, explain such behaviour in a situation like this. But, on the other hand, do you really think that advising an interviewee not to do certain things could eventually be appreciated by the employer? Continue reading

Competing Offer – A Hard Decision to Make

What to do in a situation when you are interviewing with several companies and more than one company is ready to make an offer to you?

There is an example. You are currently employed with the company “Appleby”  and are looking for new opportunities. You had already a series of interviews with different employers and, say, the “Safari” Corporation is making you a job offer. Continue reading

Mutual Interviewing Process

Your job search must be on the right track if you managed to land a job interview. Your nicely composed resume generated an interest of the potential employer and now you are heading for a personal meeting with them. Be careful and considerate during the interview and keep in mind that interviewing is a mutual process. From the part of the job-seeker it should be as rigorous as from the part of the employer. Everything matters; every small detail can be decisive and contribute to a successful career or ruin it. Not only the employer is interviewing a candidate, but the candidate should be a thorough interviewer too. Continue reading