How to Discuss Your Previous Job During an Interview

One of the most challenging aspects of a job interview is the inevitable questioning about your previous jobs. From interviewers who ask how much you made at a previous job to the ones who want to gossip about your former employers, there are so many landmines associated with questions about your former jobs that it… Read more »

When Is the Right Time to Start Hiring?

Summer is here — time for vacations, sunburns, and getting everything in place to hire employees to fill your 2016 holiday staffing needs. No, don’t read that sentence again, you read it right the first time. When it comes to filling anticipated hiring needs, the time to act is not a month before the holiday… Read more »

How to Handle Unexpected Interview Questions

Why do you want to work here? How did you hear about us? What are your career goals? There are common job interview questions everyone knows how to answer, and then there are the uncomfortable job interview questions no one wants to face. You can do weeks or months of prep work for job interviews,… Read more »

“Tell Me About Yourself.”

What do interviewers want when they say “So what are your best traits?” or “Tell me about yourself.” It may seem that your interviewers are out of creativity or just out of questions when they ask these vague interview questions, but most times, interviewers use these seemingly random interview questions as an invisible tripwire —… Read more »