Job Search Skills
Interviewing Techniques
- Best Impression: Interview to Get the Job is an article outlining strategies to use when meeting with a prospective employer.
- Dressing for Interview Success provides information to men and women on how to groom for an interview.
- Phone Interviewing Success explains the three types of telephone interviews and how to handle each one.
- Ten Questions You Should Never be Asked in an Interview provides information on what a prospective employer cannot ask.
- Turn Your Weaknesses Into Strengths explains how to handle questions during an interview that ask for information that could put an interviewee at a disadvantage
Using the Internet
- You must register to use America’s Job Bank “Job Scouts”
- The CareerOneStop/America’s Career InfoNet “Employer Locator” Career Tool Use the Employer Locator to find contact information about a specific employer or list of employers
- The CareerOneStop/America’s Career InfoNet “Licensed Occupations” search engine works to to find contact information about licenses for career in your state
- The CareerOneStop/America’s Career InfoNet “Certification Finder” directory allows you to search for certifications by keyword, industry or occupational area
- CareerBuilder's Personal Search Agent will "learn" the kind of jobs that interest you and will email them directly to your inbox
- The Job Hunter’s Bible lists the best sites to create and post a resume
- Research and locate prospective employers with USA Today’s Company Snapshots