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I saw a colleague at a professional conference recently who moaned about much she hated her job, her boss and her company.

Not only did she lament her situation with me as we chatted between workshops, but she publicly trashed her organization in front of everyone at lunch. After about 5 minutes with her at our networking lunch table, I started to regret inviting her to sit with us. Networking and making new connections were less important to her than telling everyone how she was at the confere… Continue

Imagine you are a HR Director sifting through stacks of resumes from potential candidates for a position you needed to fill yesterday. You too would probably be wincing at overused resume objectives which, although well written, tell a busy recruiter nothing about you, your skills, specific goals or your potential value to the organization. This type of generic objective typically won't get your resume past the recruiter's 20 to 30 second power scan.

The following guidelines will help job seeke… Continue

Discovered a great blog today - The Career Encouragement Blog - where an HR professional offers tips on handling the "weakness" question in the interview.

My favorite from her list of tips to handle this in the job interview:

1. Expect to be asked this question and don't be blind sided.
2. Make your response relevant to the job.
3. Don't be "cheesy" to use the author's phrase and try to use the old turn-the-weakness-into-a-strength approach.

One additional rule of thumb to keep in mind is tha… Continue