interview prep

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interview questions
Career Advice
Lori Bumgarner Béen

How to Answer These Important Pandemic Interview Questions

If you’re interviewing for a new job due to a COVID-related job loss, you want to of course prepare for commonly-asked interview questions. But you also need to prepare for some new interview questions brought on by the current pandemic. These pandemic interview questions could include: What did you do

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interview questions
Career Advice
Lori Bumgarner Béen

How to Handle the Most Pointless Interview Questions

In light of coronavirus times, one of my Facebook friends posted this the other day: “So in retrospect, in 2015, not a single person got the answer right to ‘Where do you see yourself five years from now?’” I commented: “This is reason enough to retire such an overused and

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video interviews
Career Advice
Lori Bumgarner Béen

How to Make Phone and Video Interviews Run More Smoothly

I have a few clients who’ve done video interviews in recent weeks due to COVID-19. While phone and video interviews are nothing new, at least not to first-round interview screenings, they’ve temporarily replaced all in-person job interviews during the quarantine. Companies are likely to continue holding remote interviews throughout the

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career advice
Career Advice
Lori Bumgarner Béen

Career Advice No One Will Ever Share With You (Re-post)

As a career coach, I’m always responding to career-related questions with various tips and career advice. I recently received a question asking, “What are a few unique pieces of career advice nobody ever mentions?” This is a good one because there are a lot of possible answers to it, but

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behavioral interview questions
Career Advice
Lori Bumgarner Béen

The Secret to Answering Behavioral Interview Questions

“Tell me about a time when…” UGH! Behavioral interview questions. No job seeker enjoys answering these questions. Myself included. They’re just as dreaded as the “What’s your greatest weakness?” question. I can remember back in grad school doing my first mock interview with the career center on campus. It was

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career help
Career Advice
Lori Bumgarner Béen

How to Know When It’s Time to Get Career Help

My freshman year of college I found myself struggling in my college algebra class. In fact, my entire class was struggling. That’s because our professor always let us out of class 20 minutes early and never assigned us any homework. At first we all thought this was great! What college

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good interview
Career Advice
Lori Bumgarner Béen

The One Surprising Tip That Guarantees a Good Interview

If you’re going through a job search, you know how competitive the interview process can be. And you’d probably like to know some ways to increase your chances of beating out the competition for an offer. Below is a proven interview hack that’s been tremendously successful in my own career.

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Career Advice
Lori Bumgarner Béen

What You Need to Know About Job Interviews of The Modern Era

Years ago when I used to work in college career services, the interview process for college administrator positions was apparently ahead of its time. A recent article entitled “How You’ll Look For A Job in 2018” says that exercise-based job interviews are becoming more common. Lindsay Grenawalt, head of People

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last minute job interview
Career Advice
Lori Bumgarner Béen

Faced With a Last Minute Job Interview? Help is On the Way!

You submitted your resume for the job your friend told you about, thinking you’ll probably have a week or two before you get a call for an interview. If you even get a call. And if you do, you’re thinking they’ll probably schedule you for your interview the following week,

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Recruiters
Career Advice
Lori Bumgarner Béen

7 Things You Need to Know About Recruiters

Attention job seekers: it’s important to KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE! This is true for anyone (i.e. an artist, a freelancer, etc.). And it’s also true for those hoping to land the job of their dreams. But one of the biggest mistakes I see job seekers make is not putting themselves in

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