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Carole Martin's Articles in Career

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  • Practice For Your Job Interview With This Two-Minute Drill
    It is important that your interview get off to a good start. The following seven steps or "two-minute drill" will guide you toward a best-case interview scenario.
  • The Job Offer Is Not Always As Good As It Looks
    Whether you negotiate a salary or not is secondary to doing your homework before accepting an offer. It is always best to take some time before signing on the dotted line so that you understand exactly what you are gaining - or losing.
  • The Job Interview Is Not Just About The Job Duties
    The first item of business for an interviewer to determine is if you have the qualifications to perform the duties of the job. Spice up your answers with preparation and practice.
  • Those Unexpected Telephone Screenings by Job Interviewers
    Getting through this screening is critical for advancing to the next step: the face-to-face interview. This puts added pressure on you to present yourself in a positive, focused manner. If you attempt to wing this call, you may reach a dead end in the process.
  • On Inevitable Job Interview Question - Why Did You Leave?
    Before you head out to your next interview consider preparing for this and other difficult questions. A little time spent preparing and scripting of your answers before the interview will make a huge difference in the way you answer the question during the interview.
  • Seven Steps Toward Making a Good Impression In a Job Interview
    When you get started on the right foot the job interview will flow easily. This is one impression you cannot leave to chance.
  • The Second Job Interview - What To Expect
    Other subjects may come up in this interview such as salary requirements and benefits. Prepare by doing some research on salary and some thinking about your benefits requirements.
  • Putting Yor Best Foot Forward May Start With Your Shoes - Dressing For The Job Interview
    If you were to ask 100 people their opinion about what to wear to an interview, the majority would answer,. . .
  • How Your Listening Skills Can Help You Get The Job You Want
    When all you can think of is the answers that you will be giving during your job interview, you miss a premium opportunity to garner information about the situation you are about to enter, if you take the job.
  • Asking for Feedback After a Job Interview
    You would just like to hear how you did at the interview - where you are lacking, or how you could improve your skills for your next interview. How to ask for and handle job interview feedback.
  • Pesky Job Interview Questions That Keep Coming Up
    Those same questions keep coming up – in every interview. They can be tough ones because they are about you and your thinking process. Preparing for them ahead of time can save you some grief during the interview.
  • Turn Up Your Listening Skills During the Job Interview
    When all you can think of is the answers that you will be giving, you miss a premium opportunity to garner information about the situation you are about to enter, if you take the job. The bonus of listening is that you impress the interviewer
  • More Companies Using Job Interview Phone Screening
    Getting through this screening is critical for advancing to the next step: the face-to-face interview. This puts added pressure on you to present yourself in a positive, focused manner. If you attempt to wing this call, you may reach a dead end in the process.
  • Job Interviewing and the Blind Date
    Not every date will end in a commitment or even a second date. Not every job interview will end in a job offer. Sometimes it just doesn’t work - for whatever reason. Let go and move forward.
  • Making a List and Checking it Twice - Before Your Job Interview
    This pre-job interview checklist will aid you in feeling prepared and ready. This feeling will boost your confidence and you will be able to be more relaxed and make a positive impression.
  • Pre-Job Interview Thinking - Knowing What You Want
    Even if you are not asked this question, your pre-interview thinking, analysis, and scripting, will help you be more focused and in control of want you want in your next job. Knowing what you want will make you feel more confident about finding the right job.
  • Don’t Discount the Temporary Position Interview
    Even though you are not being considered for a regular position at this time, there is always the possibility that it just might work out well for both parties -- and the first step to making that happen is by acing the interview.
  • Three Common Deadly Mistakes Made In Job Interviews
    Three areas of performance, which should be considered dangerous and deadly, are worth spending some time thinking about before your next interview.
  • Ten Tips for the Interview Follow Up
    No offer; no call. They never hear from the company. This is not only frustrating, but reflects poorly on the company. In fact it is rude. What can you do about this situation?
  • 10 Killer Job Interview questions and Answers
    There is no way you can accurately predict the questions that will be asked in an interview, but you can be ready and prepared by thinking about the factors that might concern an interviewer or employer before the interview.
  • Finding Your Uniqueness in Today's Job Market
    By narrowing your uniqueness to these five basic points, you can guide the conversation to include this information. By focusing on five strengths, you will be prepared with examples of times when you have used these strengths. Whenever possible, give examples to show how you have “been there and done that,” and can do it again.
  • Changing Careers – With little or no experience at the new career
    Changing careers is not easy to do in any market, but in a tight job market it will take that extra step to differentiate yourself from the next candidate. Remember, the employer has a problem – there is work to be done. It is your job to listen to what the interviewer is looking for and then to sell yourself as the solution to the problem.
  • Have You Ever Been Fired From a Job?
    If you’ve ever been fired, this question is probably the one interview question you dread the most. Not only have you had a bad experience, but you have to talk about it – again and again. How you deal with this question in your interviews will depend. . .
  • How To Sell Yourself Life a Product at a Job Interview
    Anyone can say that they have “strong organizational skills,” but not everyone can give specific examples of a time when they had a success using those skills. Don’t tell them – sell them - with proof of a past experience or success.
  • Closing The Job Interview
    Five important points for closing the job interview on a positive note with ease.
  • Job Interviewers Want to Know – “When have you been most motivated?”
    The perfect answer to: "When have you been most motivated?" This questions is sure to be asked in the job interview, so preparation is to your advantage. Carole shows you how to answer the question.
  • 10 Top Tips For First Time Job Interviewers
    10 tips to guide a new graduate through self-inventory and preparation for job interviews.
  • How to Answer Difficult Job Interview Questions
    Too many job seekers stumble through interviews as if the questions are coming out of left field. But many interview questions are to be expected. Study this list and plan your answers ahead of time so you'll be ready to deliver them with confidence.
  • Fear of Interviewing for a Job
    The first, and most important step is to change the way that you view the interview. This is not an appointment with the dentist who may inflict pain. It is a conversation
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