Westchester Career Guide

Instead of “Why” You should ask “How”, i.e. How I can get this job? How I can be better than others in an interview? These “How” questions will give you a better idea as to how to crack the interview process and develop confidence.

Most in­ter­view­ers form an opin­ion be­fore you shake their hand​; po­ten­tial em­ploy­ers re­al­ly do judge books by their cov­ers. So, how can you dress to get your foot in the door?

With more can­di­dates go­ing head-​to-​head for jobs, or­ga­ni­za­tions can be very se­lec­tive in find­ing the ide­al em­ploy­ee – some­one who fits all of the po­si­tion’s qual­i­fi­ca­tions or even goes be­yond the re­quire­ments.

Lead­ing ex­perts say that chang­ing jobs is vi­tal to ad­vance­ment, and iden­ti­fy­ing which fields are in-​de­mand is key to im­ple­ment­ing an ac­tion plan for suc­cess.

Writ­ing a good job in­ter­view thank you let­ter should al­ways be a pri­or­i­ty, no mat­ter how you felt the in­ter­view went. Here are 5 rea­sons why even crap­py in­ter­view needs a fol­low-​up through a job in­ter­view thank you let­ter.

Here are 6 es­sen­tial job in­ter­view skills your teach­ers nev­er taught you . . . not be­cause they want­ed yet an­oth­er rea­son to make you suf­fer but be­cause they didn’t know some job in­ter­view skills to be­gin with.