by K B , updated on November 11, 2020
If you’re looking for a job and feeling daunted about where to start, then please read on.
There are heaps of online tools to make your research more efficient.
Today’s guest post is from Vikki Bell, the Founder of Bellinform Research.
I met Vikki over a coffee and a mutual interest in LinkedIn a few months ago.
When she told me that she trains people on making the most of LinkedIn as a research tool; AND that she works with people going through outplacement to help them refine their job research techniques, I got a little excited.
So I asked her to share her expertise with InterviewIQ readers.
Here are her tips on advanced job research techniques, that will help you uncover hidden gems.
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by K B , updated on May 13, 2019
One of the things I see people constantly write on their LinkedIn profile headlines is “currently seeking new opportunities.”
Seeing this drives me slightly nuts.
You may be tempted to do this, thinking that it might help your job search.
The reality is, it can brand you as a bit desperate.
Employers are hiring you on the value you can add to them, not so much on whether you are immediately available.
If they need you badly enough and have to poach you from someone else – they will.
So, before you even start to think about writing your LinkedIn profile, watch my video for some quick tips on managing your online brand.
Then after you watch it, I’d love to hear your tips as well.
Please leave a comment below.
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by K B , updated on November 1, 2020
If you are looking for a job right now and wondering why it’s taking so long to hear back from an employer, then I urge you to think about this.
Your Google resume may be just as important to your future employer, as anything they can read on paper about you.
Sonia Kokkalos seems to think we are seeing the end of the paper based resume.
Sonia is the CEO of Recruitment Pool, an organisation she set up to help organisations and job-seekers find each other via social media.
Here’s her take on where the resume is heading, and some advice on what you should be doing right now to help you find your next role.
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by K B , updated on April 17, 2016
Do you have a medical specialty interview soon?
For over 10 years Impressive Interview’s Deborah Barit has helped hundreds of professionals succeed through the extremely challenging process of medical specialty interviews.
Pardon the pun, but her list of medical specialties is impressive.
There are lots of people who’ve tried to imitate her in this area, however Deborah is the only person in Australia with a real depth of experience training in this specialised area.
She now has clients fly in to Australia just to see her for interview training.
She’s constantly innovating to deliver her interview training in more effective ways to suit the needs of medical specialists. Many of her clients have topped the state.
So I am pleased to announce that Deborah has developed an exclusive interview training Master Class.
An area she focuses on in her training is helping visual learners.
It might seem strange that we’re talking about this. However this is a huge problem.
Visual learners really struggle in interview because they are not given any visual cue (for example, a question that is written down), to help them understand the questions. So an interview which is all based on verbal communication, leaves them struggling.
You may not know you are a visual learner.
You may just know that despite your best efforts, you flounder in interview. You might also find yourself preparing for interview like you would for an exam – that is memorising your interview answers.
(If you do try to memorise your answers in interview, your interviewer will actually know that you do this. Read this post if you need to know more about how.)
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by K B , updated on May 22, 2018
Everybody’s been talking about the demise of the resume for a long time now.
Then this popped into my inbox.
Is this pointing to the end of the paper based resume as we know it?
There’s quite a lot of debate about this.
Some people applaud the idea that it saves time from both ends.
Candidates can quickly video themselves and employers can essentially start screening interviews earlier on in the process.
Of course it raises issues of instant discrimination based on age/gender/appearance etc. And videos do favour the extroverted communicators of course.
What’s a real worry for me is that we are all such visual people.
We pay much more attention to how the message is packaged, than the content of the message. Then we make judgments about whether we believe that message.
To give you an example, I play one of the videos I developed for my app to a few LinkedIn workshops I deliver. The video shows a graduate answering the question “tell me about yourself.”
I ask workshop participants to focus on the detail of the applicant’s answer. Consistently the first feedback I receive is that she “looked” nervous and shifty, and does not sound confident. Check the video out here.
Only when I prompt people to think about what she actually says, do they discuss the detail.
The thing I find really interesting is I have had feedback that candidates are really reluctant to use a video – which is weird in the age of “selfies.”
If you’re in the market or in the market for candidates, I’d love your thoughts on this.
by K B , updated on November 11, 2020
Meet Our New Career Change Expert
Two of the biggest career questions I get are:
1) I’d like to change my career, but don’t know where to start.
2) I do know what I want to do in my career, but how do I get my first opportunity?
As much as I’d like to, I can’t actually give you one easy answer to that. I’d so like to, because if I could, I’d be one extremely rich woman.
Instead what I can do, is introduce you to our Career Counsellor, Daniel Solodky.
Daniel talks career change tips on our latest podcast.
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