Interview questions can frustrate the most capable candidate: You factually answer the interviewer's questions, you tout your job skills and talents... and then don't get the job. Are those hiring managers not getting how fabulous you are and how well you will do for the company? If your answers to interview questions don't tell a story, the hiring manager will most likely not remember you as well as those who tell... Read more

Resume results, accomplishments, deliverables - pundits tell you that you must have these on your resume in order to get noticed. But what, exactly, IS an accomplishment you can put on a resume anyway? How do you go about constructing it for your resume? Let's start with a definition: an accomplishment is a work effort you completed that moved the business forward, shown through numbers. If you look at that definition... Read more

Career plans, let's face it, are boring. It's like you really should know where you want to be five years from now. But in this economy, a career plan gives you a weapon to flip the traditional job search paradigm: you desperately seeking employment through the privilege of talking with a hiring manager. Perhaps the career plan doesn't reach out for the infamous five years, but only through your desired position... Read more

Starting a new job is terrific. Usually, we're so overwhelmed with the amount of new information or so relieved about having a job that we make some big mistakes. In this work environment, your manager wants confidence in the hiring decision and you should want to know the job is right for you. So we make mistakes and don't even realize we're doing it. One year later, we're wondering why we... Read more

"Ninja" is the latest fad to try and describe a person's job skills. The Wall Street Journal reports: In 2009, the growth of "ninja" as a new job description far outpaced the growth of other trendy titles, according to LinkedIn Corp., a Web site that provides networking for more than 65 million professionals. While the numbers are still small on LinkedIn - some 800 current or former ninjas have public profiles... Read more