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Google: Ways it Helps and Hurts the Job Seeker

The world wide web is an amazing tool.  The amount of access to information is incredible.  From a job seekers perspective it can be a rich resource for researching target companies, identifying job  leads, and networking through social media sites like LinkedIn.  For savvy web browsers they can identify salary information,  job qualifications and requirements [...]
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Pre-employment Testing: Its role in the final decision to hire

You have made it through the final rounds of interviews, you have acquired finalist status, the job offer is almost in your hands but there is just one more thing – pre-employment testing. The role of pre-employment testing varies greatly across employers.  In fact not all employers use testing in the hiring decision.  For those employers [...]
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Kare 11 interview – Must Have Qualities for Leaders

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The Disappearing Job Posting

While scrolling through job leads on the Internet have you ever stumbled upon the “perfect job” and the very next day you go back to look at it again and it’s gone – it had disappeared?  This can be a maddening occurrence for job seekers which leads to speculations abound regarding what could have happened.  As [...]
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Making the most out of your references

In the “old days” of job search reference letters were submitted with the resume.  Then we moved to a standard  line at the bottom of the resume saying “references available upon request”.  But things in the job market have changed and you no longer need to do either.  In the current job market references are requested very late [...]
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