After doing your best to make a great impression at a job interview and getting your hopes up, it can be deflating to discover you weren’t selected for the job. Even at this stage of the interview process, you can gain valuable information and possibly even open up future job opportunities with that employer. After [...]

In order to stand out from the crowd when you’re job searching, ask yourself how you will add value to a company. Don’t simply present a list of your basic qualifications to do the job. Instead, whether you’re writing your resume or at a job interview, demonstrate to employers how your skills and experience will [...]

In the book Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, authors Chip Heath and Dan Heath describe the core qualities of memorable ideas. While this is not a job search book, a lot of their concepts can be applied to your job search. Specifically, the authors assert that “sticky ideas” are often [...]

Effective job searching is all about marketing. If you know anything about how to market products and services, you know how to job search. One basic tenet of marketing is that you should never try to be all things to all people. Find a target audience and speak directly to those people. Show how the [...]

I’ve added a new feature to the Career Choice Guide home site. I’ve asked employers to provide their tips on job searching here: Job Search Advice from Employers. As of this writing, you’ll find tips about writing a good resume as well as job interview tips from an employer’s perspective on the site. As this [...]

Doing a little bit of company research is a very easy way to help yourself stand out from the competition in your job search. With a little bit of ingenuity, you can often do good company research even when you’re provided with nothing more than a fax number in a job ad 1. Ideally you [...]