Business Communication Today, 15th Ed.
Chapter 19. Applying and Interviewing for Employment
"Watch this video to find out how the fast-paced growth in mobility is shaping businesses and enterprise mobility, and what a robust strategy can do to ensure success for the future of your organisation.
"Happens to everyone.
"I said goodbye to my mouse last month.
"Many job seekers have described to me that submitting a resume in today's job market is mostly a banging-their-head-against-a-wall, extremely frustrating waste of time," writes Susan P.
David Reese (photo, left) offers a post on the topic at the Harvard Business Review blog.
"Unfortunately, candidates aren’t judged on how well they do their jobs; they’re judged on how well they describe how they do their jobs.
"Before you answer the question the employer asks, you should pause to think, 'What fear about the future caused them to ask this question about my past?
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"What an amazing year 2013 has been for mobile innovation - and consumers.
"Stress.
That resource is no longer available, but here is advice on creating a compelling LinkedIn profile.
Fellow designer Matt Helmke offers a succinct overview of Reynolds’s groundbreaking book.
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According to Vivian Giang (photo, left), "Sometimes hiring managers can eliminate a candidate immediately because they've crossed the line and done something completely inappropriate.
Matt Johnston (photo, left) presents a video on the topic of resume mistakes to avoid.
"While you may end up being asked the standard "what is your weakness" question at a job interview, a sneaky employer may try to slip in some questions that are illegal to ask, in order to gain some possibly sensitive information," writes Justin Gmoser (photo, left) in presenting this video on the topic.
"The new year is often a good time to reflect on the good and bad things that have happened in the past year," says Vivian Giang with BusinessInsider.
"Leaving a high-flying job in consulting, Angela Lee Duckworth took a job teaching math to seventh graders in a New York public school.
"Melitta Campbell (photo, left) is a copywriter with 15 years experience of working in a corporate communications environment within a number of international organisations.
There are four things that the most successful professionals have in common.