Author Archives: Arleen Bradley

Tips For A Successful Job Search During The Summer

While others are enjoying the lazy, hazy days of summer thinking that no one gets hired in the summer, nothing could be further from the truth.  Hiring does take place.  The process may take longer.  But people get hired all year around.  And you could be one of them.  Fortunately, you can take your job […]

Background Checks: Job Searchers Beware, Your Job Offer Might Be Might Depending On It

  You know that employers will check your social network profiles to learn about the real you.  They will perform a Google search to see what is on the web about you. And that your former employer will be contacted for your work history.  It’s pretty common place, and most job searchers are aware of […]

10 super easy tips to creating the SMART story that will get you hired.

In my last blog I told you what a SMART story was and why you should use it in your job search.  This blog will give you some suggestions on how to write them in addition to the situation/more, the action you took, the results and the tie in. Here are 10 of suggestions for […]

Car, soar and star are related and can ace your interview.

  The words listed here all have one thing in common.  Although most of them rhyme, that isn’t what they have in common.  These words all mean the same thing to a job searcher.  They are all a way to answer behavioral questions in an interview.  The list of words: CAR, PAR, STAR, SOAR, and […]

Don’t Fall For These Interview Tricks To Make You Say More Than You Should

  In June,  I posted a blog called 5 Interview tips that change your A game to and A+ game.  I received a comment that requested examples of questions that can seem harmlessbut may cause you to reveal too much information.  This post will give those examples. My particular post:  BE WATCHFUL—remember the interviewer is […]