Dress for Success!

25/01/2023

Interview

First impressions count – especially in interviews! For anyone who suffers from poor posture and/or lacks a good fashion sense, that little truism about first impressions is a painful fact of life. It also seems patently unfair, because it sugges

Showmanship At Interviews

25/01/2023

Interview

Who was Isaac? Isaac was our drummer, and the last time that any of us had seen him, he was relaxing backstage with a cigarette in one hand and a beer in the other. The audience was starting to get impatient. I looked over at our singer, who looked ove

Permissible Pre-Employment Queries

24/01/2023

Career Advice

Throughout history, there are many examples of human beings' poor treatment of others. In the employment sense, the main issue of poor treatment is discrimination. Obviously, discrimination is not confined to the dusty pages of history books. It is

The Telephone Interview

24/01/2023

Career Advice

An employer can call at anytime, but, with shift-work, roommates watching basketball games, or babies crying, it's always advisable to prearrange the time for the call. (This is the value of email!) If they do call at an unscheduled time and it&#39