By Rebekah Cockrell
Your resume was good enough to get the interview. You woke up feeling confident and even showed up fifteen minutes early to your interview. You felt great as you chit chatted about the weekend and then answered all of the questions with ease. You were a shoe in. Then why didn't you get the job or even a second interview.
Let's rewind.
You showed up fifteen minutes early. Awesome for you, unfortunately not all employers feel the same way. It can be annoying for an employer to have an interview show up while they are still trying to finish up the interview before you. It's good to be punctual, and even early in most cases. Five minutes early is acceptable. If you show up earlier than that, just sit in your car for a few minutes. Listen to the radio and meditate on why you are the best candidate for the job. Then five minutes before your scheduled interview, head on in.
Next, let's cover your interview attire. Your hair is neat and combed; you put on your best shirt and favorite "nice" jeans. O.K..... Let's talk about the "nice jeans". I hate to break this to so many of you, but jeans are almost never acceptable for an interview. It almost rules you out before you even get a chance to say anything. Yes if you are applying for a job as a cowboy or related field it's appropriate. For almost every other job on the planet it's not. At the very least pull out a pair of khaki's for the interview. Employer's look at your appearance as a reflection of how you might dress on the job or represent the company. You don't want to come across as too casual or sloppy. Even if you know the office is generally casual and the person interviewing you is wearing jeans, you don't want to make any assumptions about expectations for the interview process. After you have the job offer, ask what the appropriate dress is for the business. As a tip, it's good to have a "go to" interview outfit and try to make it something that you feel comfortable in.
Now let's move on to the interview chit chatting. It is always a good idea to find something to relate to the interviewer about. This shows the interviewer that you would fit in with the office. It's not a good idea to engage in overly long discussions that are unrelated to the position available. You only have a short time to impress someone enough to be offered the job. Try not to waste too much time discussing items that are not going to get you the job. While they may "like" you, the job will end up going to someone else that is more "qualified". Let's discuss the rules of interview chit chat. No politics, religion, or any type of a private story that is best left for happy hour with your friends.
Now that you have these easy to follow rules for your next interview, get working on your resume, pull your interview outfit together and practice for your next interview. Good luck on the job hunt.
Rebekah Cockrell is a Community and Marketing Manager for http://CreateBetterResumes.com
CreateBetterResumes.com was founded with the purpose of making it easy for everyone to have a compelling results driven resume using our signature phrase building technology.
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Career Job Opportunity, How To Get It?
By Nawaz Shahzad
To have a versatile staff (employee) is always been a first choice of hiring managers (employers / recruitment agency). In today's fast moving recruiting needs there are many ways & channels to have a long & competitive list of global job seekers to choose from. Out of many other channels, social networking emerges as a robust form of candidates seeking channel, equally beneficial for career success seekers. Establishing solid and equally helpful associations is the top objective of a social networking. Plan your career and thus succeed in finding your career targets. A well sketched career building action plan will direct you through the career searching route.
Job opportunity + career plan = Career Job!
Simple but basic steps to reach successfully to your career job!
1. Explore Career Options
2. Get career based experience
3. Measure your strength, weakness & interests
4. Get trained in targeted job search skills.
5. How to stay organized & ready
6. How to deal with your boss & colleagues
7. Improve your communications skills
8. How to make best use of your time and potentials
9. Clearly set your targets
10. Always updated your CV
11. Monitor industry trend
12. Rehearse your job interview posture
Sometimes finding alone is hard to accomplish your objectives. But once involved other social factors to assist you in reaching skies with the support of successful people consistently surrounding you and support efforts. Job seekers can go unaccompanied or gain support of a people who understand your career targets. Once found a career job you craved for is well value the time exhausted searching for it. Sometimes job seekers come across obstacles pulling them for not moving out of existing job, if this is a situation then outline a tactic to beat them. Always keep in mind that it is a quest for your dream career and you are striving to make it happen.
Nawaz is an author for this article. Article Source: http://www.e-cvs.net/cv_articles.html
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Nawaz_Shahzad
To have a versatile staff (employee) is always been a first choice of hiring managers (employers / recruitment agency). In today's fast moving recruiting needs there are many ways & channels to have a long & competitive list of global job seekers to choose from. Out of many other channels, social networking emerges as a robust form of candidates seeking channel, equally beneficial for career success seekers. Establishing solid and equally helpful associations is the top objective of a social networking. Plan your career and thus succeed in finding your career targets. A well sketched career building action plan will direct you through the career searching route.
Job opportunity + career plan = Career Job!
Simple but basic steps to reach successfully to your career job!
1. Explore Career Options
2. Get career based experience
3. Measure your strength, weakness & interests
4. Get trained in targeted job search skills.
5. How to stay organized & ready
6. How to deal with your boss & colleagues
7. Improve your communications skills
8. How to make best use of your time and potentials
9. Clearly set your targets
10. Always updated your CV
11. Monitor industry trend
12. Rehearse your job interview posture
Sometimes finding alone is hard to accomplish your objectives. But once involved other social factors to assist you in reaching skies with the support of successful people consistently surrounding you and support efforts. Job seekers can go unaccompanied or gain support of a people who understand your career targets. Once found a career job you craved for is well value the time exhausted searching for it. Sometimes job seekers come across obstacles pulling them for not moving out of existing job, if this is a situation then outline a tactic to beat them. Always keep in mind that it is a quest for your dream career and you are striving to make it happen.
Nawaz is an author for this article. Article Source: http://www.e-cvs.net/cv_articles.html
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Jobs in the Film Industry
By Kristin DeAnn Gabriel
If you are looking for a career in the film industry, you are looking at a pretty competitive business. The good news is that many people are getting jobs in this area, even when the economy is suffering from a slump, because entertainment is the one thing people still spend money on during tough times. Here are a few statistics pertaining to careers in film.
In recent years, theater admissions did decline, but it seems that the year 2006 ended a three year downward trend because admissions increased three.3 percent over 2005. Revenues from ticket sales increased by 5.Close to 5 percent, making 2006 a $9.49 billion year. Movies released in 2006 were up 607, marking an 11 percent increase over the number of releases in 2005.
If you want to learn how to be a director or a producer the latest published data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates that the film industry provided 157,000 jobs for actors, directors and producers in 2004. This number is expected to grow between 9-17 percent by the year 2014.
In 2002, there were about 360,000 jobs in the motion picture and video industries, but most of these workers were involved in the production end of film making. There are many companies in the industry employ 10 workers or less. The good news is that a 31.1 percent increase in jobs is expected industry-wide between the years 2002 and 2012. This growth is about twice the 16 percent growth expected across all industries combined over the same timeframe.
How much money can you can make by getting a job in the film industry? It seems that median annual earnings for salaried producers and directors, were about $46,240 in 2002. And if you were really good, and lucky, the top ten percent earned over $119,760.
Those who are really serious about a career in the film business should take a look at programs with film mentor teachers from inside the industry, which takes you out of the classroom of some film schools in colleges and onto real movie sets. This is how and where you'll learn by doing while you apprentice, one-on-one with a mentor, or by working with a professional - a producer, actor, or a director - in the area of film that you want to study. There are plenty of Los Angeles film schools, and even New York film schools, and many in between in just about any major city in the U.S., but the reality is that in order to really "break into the film business" you will benefit by studying with a working professional.
The reality is that no matter what the economy has in store, or what the job market statistics come in at -- if you really want to work in the entertainment or film industry, the best way to do it is to learn your skills from a mentor in the entertainment industry who will help you get a job once you graduate.
Writer and social media expert Kristin Gabriel works with the http://www.film-connection.com , a Los Angeles film school run by the Entertainment Career Connection, Inc., a fully accredited academic institution certified by the National Private Schools Accreditation Alliance. The school provides educational apprentice programs for the film, radio, television and the music recording industries in more than 100 cities in 50 states. The schools provide the entertainment industry with graduate apprentices and entry level employees.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Kristin_DeAnn_Gabriel
If you are looking for a career in the film industry, you are looking at a pretty competitive business. The good news is that many people are getting jobs in this area, even when the economy is suffering from a slump, because entertainment is the one thing people still spend money on during tough times. Here are a few statistics pertaining to careers in film.
In recent years, theater admissions did decline, but it seems that the year 2006 ended a three year downward trend because admissions increased three.3 percent over 2005. Revenues from ticket sales increased by 5.Close to 5 percent, making 2006 a $9.49 billion year. Movies released in 2006 were up 607, marking an 11 percent increase over the number of releases in 2005.
If you want to learn how to be a director or a producer the latest published data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates that the film industry provided 157,000 jobs for actors, directors and producers in 2004. This number is expected to grow between 9-17 percent by the year 2014.
In 2002, there were about 360,000 jobs in the motion picture and video industries, but most of these workers were involved in the production end of film making. There are many companies in the industry employ 10 workers or less. The good news is that a 31.1 percent increase in jobs is expected industry-wide between the years 2002 and 2012. This growth is about twice the 16 percent growth expected across all industries combined over the same timeframe.
How much money can you can make by getting a job in the film industry? It seems that median annual earnings for salaried producers and directors, were about $46,240 in 2002. And if you were really good, and lucky, the top ten percent earned over $119,760.
Those who are really serious about a career in the film business should take a look at programs with film mentor teachers from inside the industry, which takes you out of the classroom of some film schools in colleges and onto real movie sets. This is how and where you'll learn by doing while you apprentice, one-on-one with a mentor, or by working with a professional - a producer, actor, or a director - in the area of film that you want to study. There are plenty of Los Angeles film schools, and even New York film schools, and many in between in just about any major city in the U.S., but the reality is that in order to really "break into the film business" you will benefit by studying with a working professional.
The reality is that no matter what the economy has in store, or what the job market statistics come in at -- if you really want to work in the entertainment or film industry, the best way to do it is to learn your skills from a mentor in the entertainment industry who will help you get a job once you graduate.
Writer and social media expert Kristin Gabriel works with the http://www.film-connection.com , a Los Angeles film school run by the Entertainment Career Connection, Inc., a fully accredited academic institution certified by the National Private Schools Accreditation Alliance. The school provides educational apprentice programs for the film, radio, television and the music recording industries in more than 100 cities in 50 states. The schools provide the entertainment industry with graduate apprentices and entry level employees.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Kristin_DeAnn_Gabriel
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