Picture this with me, you spend hours preparing for a job interview researching the company, crafting the perfect answers, and show up thinking you’re ready. But during the interview, the interviewers are not impressed because you stumble over your words, your body language is distracting, and you’re unable to convince them due to your lack of presentation skills. All your preparation goes down the drain as a result, and you leave the meeting defeated. But what if I told you there is one simple thing you can do to improve your interview presentation skills by ten times?

In this article, I'm going to reveal the secret technique that top job candidates use to wow interviewers and stand out from the competition. But even outside of the interview context, following this tip will help you Impress any audience, leave a lasting impression and significantly increase your ability to influence people in any context. So, get ready to unleash your full potential and take your career to the ...

A cover letter is a powerful tool at your disposal that can significantly increase your chances of getting the first interview. It can serve as your own introduction where you can highlight your strongest and most pertinent details right off the bat. Most research agrees that the majority of hiring managers (up to about 70%) read cover letters, and it does make a tangible difference in their decision-making.

In this article, I'll share with you what I consider to be the three most useful tips you should follow if you want to write a cover letter that stands out and helps you get more first-round interviews. I'm also going to give you a few sample cover letters at the end that you can reference or copy so make sure to watch until the end.

1. BE CONCISE:

The first tip is to be concise. In today's fast-paced world, where attention spans are ever-decreasing, most people simply do not have time to read long emails or messages they don't have to read. It can overwhelm the...

Previously, I created a post on the secret recipe to absolutely nail “Tell me about yourself”. If you haven’t read it yet, I really recommend you check it out. Today, as part 2 on this topic, I’m going to give you several, concrete sample answers and scripts for different types of roles from a wide range of industries so you can get a clearer idea and, also, save time.

As I mentioned in my last article, the secret success formula to tackling “Tell me about yourself” is to start with the JD and then build your response according to the employer’s needs (instead of starting with your own experience first).

So what I’m going to do today is to review 3 JDs of different types of roles (including e-commerce, accounting, and HR), and go through their key requirements (or keywords). And then, we will draft relevant and convincing responses together. As I’m sure you can appreciate, it doesn’t really matter what JD or role we choose as our examples at the end of the day because we ...

If I told you that you won’t have to write a resume by yourself again in a few years, how would you feel about that?

Actually, forget a few years because right now, there is an AI tool that can write a resume for you.

If you read any news about technology recently, you’ve probably heard of this AI called ChatGPT that sounds incredibly like a human being and is amazing at writing anything, including poems, essays, emails, etc.

Well, it’s pretty darn good at writing resumes too.

You can ask it to write a resume summary for you, write your work experience, and in fact, it can already write an entire resume from scratch if you want it to. It’s a powerful tool that is undoubtedly going to revolutionize and change the way we do everything.

Watch the video to find out how!

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Today, I’m gonna share with you what you absolutely need to prepare before attending any interview if you want to avoid unnecessary embarrassment, make an unforgettable first impression, and maximize your chances of proceeding to the next round. Let’s go!

1. Employer (Main Products and business offering)

The first point is the employer. You must know about the employer, especially their products and the services they offer – basically what they do. But just having a brief idea is not enough. You need to have a sufficiently clear & detailed understanding of the employer’s business in order to have an intelligent discussion on this topic during the meeting. Imagine the interviewer asking you, “What do you know about our firm, and what about our company attracts you?”

To intelligently answer this question with substance, you need to have an idea bout the following:

• The industry they in
• Are they for-profit or non-profit companies?
• Products, business offerings, and/or ser...

Today, let's learn how to pass background checks with flying colors. 

Do you know that passing the interviews, getting the offer, and signing the contract does not guarantee you will have a job?

There is still one more step that could go wrong, and that is: "background checking."

In today's article, I'm going to share with you rock-solid tips to make sure that you pass your background checks with flying colors.

For those of you who are not 100% sure about what a background check is, it’s the process that gets kicked off once the job seeker has signed the contract and is waiting to join the company. Depending on the employer, the background checking process can take anywhere between a few days to a few months.

Usually, this is what the process looks like:

• When the company makes an offer, and the candidate accepts it, the employer asks a professional background-checking company to start off the process
• The background-checking company will ask you to provide a list
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Before you submit your resume or make your next application, make sure you go through this checklist. Here is the last-minute resume checklist that will help you avoid embarrassing mistakes and boost your chances of getting that first interview!

As mentioned, today’s article is the final checklist you want to reference before you submit your CV next if you want to avoid common pitfalls, grab the readers’ attention immediately, and maximize your chances of securing the meeting.  Plus, it only takes a few minutes. Sounds helpful? Let’s go!

1. Professional Summary

The first thing to check is your professional summary. Professional Summary is the top section of your CV, right below your name and contact information. This is like the 30-second pitch of your background and is what most people will read first when opening your resume. Therefore, writing a strong summary will go very far in terms of capturing the reader’s attention.

For the purpose of this article, I recommend...

A counteroffer is a tricky subject. It's only given to someone after he or she has RESIGNed from their employer. At first, it can feel somewhat flattering - that your boss would make an effort to try and keep you. And you feel bad not to take it because it may seem like you're rejecting them for the 2^nd time especially after they made all this effort.

Yet, at the same time, if you accept the counteroffer, you will be going back on your word and your commitment to the other company that took the initiative to make an attractive offer to you first. And you have already accepted and signed it too, which will likely lead to burning the bridge.

So before you make this important decision, what pros and cons should you consider? In this article, I will break them down for you so that you can make the best-informed and most advantageous decision for your career.

After we have discussed the pros and cons, I will attempt to answer the question, "should you take a counteroffer?" so ...

Salary negotiation can be a stressful and nerve-wracking experience. You finally found a company you like, you've done a great interview, the employer likes you, and they want to make an offer! How awesome!

But then you realize, oh shoot, I still have to do the negotiation. And you think - What should I do if the offer amount is too low? Can I ask for more? If yes, how do I even bring it up? What if I ask for too much… or too little? What if I turn them off, and they don't want to hire me anymore?

And these are all valid concerns. You can do everything well up until this point and ultimately end up with the result that you're not satisfied or happy with, depending on how well this step of the job process, called negotiation, goes.

Based on my 15+ years of experience working with thousands of ambitious job seekers, I have come to realize that many people find negotiation difficult – not only because they do not know how to do it but also because of the concern that they will...

Do you need to shorten your CV but you are unsure what to remove? Or it's taking too long? Are you looking for simple tips to trim your CV with minimal effort? You're in the right place!

One of the most common resume mistakes is making it too long. If a resume is not concise, it loses readability, and, really, no one likes to read lengthy CVs.

How long should a resume be? What is the ideal length?

Perhaps the best answer is a quote from a famous mathematician named Pascal. He said, "If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter." Pascal is saying that he would rather write a shorter, more concise letter, but it takes more effort to achieve brevity. In the same way, the best and the most effective resume is distilled to contain only the most critical and essential information.

Today I'm going to let you in on three simple and easy tips so that you can shorten your CV fast and with minimal effort. Let's go!

1.  Get rid of the Work History section altogether...