Once you have a job offer in hand, what do you do next?
How to Evaluate a Job Offer weighing the offer plus:
Salary Negotiation looking at salary (talks about media salary, but for the most part the advice is valuable).
Negotiation
Social Media In the Job Search
One of the biggest changes in the way jobs are found these days is in the area of social media. The rise of Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter have changed how we communicate with each other.
Job Seekers Find New Rules Of Recruitment NPR article on rise of new media
The best and the worst in social media for job seekers be aware of what you put up on the web – it can both help and hinder your job chances.
10 Part Series: Can LinkedIn Work For You? central piece of a 10 part series of posts on making use of LinkedIn
The Trouble With LinkedIn: Bigger is not better giant LinkedIn networks aren’t necessarily better – quality over quantity.
Make Social Networks Work for You reviews the virtues of different social networks and also has some general advice for making use of them.
Simple Ways to Improve Your LinkedIn Profile 3 excellent tips to make your LinkedIn profile better and to help you stand out.
Social networking key to a successful job search social network sites are almost mandatory for a successful job search nowadays.
How David Murray found a new job via Twitter putting Twitter to use as a job seeking aid (though it needs the people you want to talk to to be on Twitter)
Networking
A lot of things have changed in the world, but one that hasn’t is that the people you know can help you find that next opportunity. In fact, the vast majority of positions are filled via networking.
Job Search and Career Networking Tips lots of good general advice. Networking is about helping each other.
What Does ‘Networking’ Really Mean? good article explaining how to network and what it means to network.
The Trouble With LinkedIn: Bigger is not better talks about LinkedIn specifically, but the bottom line is that it is quality not quantity in your network.
Resume Dos and Don’ts
Plenty of articles about resumes.
15 Deadly But Often-Made Resume Blunders to Avoid nice list of things to avoid. Nothing extraordinary but all might happen if we are not diligent.
Little Things That Make a Big Job Search Difference
Resume Writing Guide the basics – leads to a lot of other advice from Alison Doyle.
How to write a resume – Work History (part 2) writing achievement statements on your resume
Ten Things You Didn’t Know About Your Resume practical and realistic advice about the presenting of a resume.
Funny resume bloopers written for smiles really, but it does show that checking your work for errors is more than a spell check.
Preparing For and Recovering From Being Laid Off
It is a pretty traumatic thing to be let go from a company, even more so if you did not see it coming. Here is advice for learning to cope and get back into the job market.
5 Ways to Recover From Being Laid Off this is the basic advice: accept and prepare to move on.
After the Interview
You can still have an effect on your chances of being offered the job after you leave the employer after an interview. You can’t save a disastrous interview, but it can help you stand out. Or, if you are not careful, you can annoy the very person you don’t want to at the very moment you want them to look at you with favor.
Job Interview: Follow Up After Job Interview advice on email or letter follow-up.
Difficult Interview Questions
All the work into getting yourself that interview will be wasted if you cannot give good answers to the questions a potential employer asks. Several articles talk about some particularly perilous ones.
Interview Questions and Answers some standard interview questions – good for a review and part of your preparation. Also includes some suggested answers.
The Most Dreaded Interview Question how not to answer the “what is your weakness?” question.
The definitive answer to the dreaded Strength and weakness question. answers why interviewers ask these questions and thus how you should answer them.
How to Answer Tough Interview Questions| Great answers to tough interview questions general advice on answering tough questions – several links to other articles at the site about specific kinds of question.
Answering Wild-Card Interview Questions what to do if you are oddball questions.
The Interviewing Cheat Sheet: 100 Resources for Interviewers and Candidates – an immense resource of interview-related articles, including many covering the tough questions, such as this one. Excellent advice and plenty to read.
General Interview Advice
For many, the interview is a stressful event and there is a wealth of advice for how to prepare, how to act and how to respond. Here I will concentrate on the preparation rather than the questions-and-answers.
15 Job Interview Horror Stories a lot of common sense stuff, but it often bears repeating.
Brush Up on Your Job-Hunting Skills more general advice – persistence, a positive attitude and preparation are key.
Job Interviews / Getting Hired About.com’s Alison Doyle – links to a lot of advice.
Mistakes to Avoid at a Job Interview If You Really Want That Job! preparation is key, as well as good manners.
What to say in an interview & What not to say in an interview some tips on controlling what you say in an interview – sometimes nothing is the wisest thing to say. This site has several articles on different aspects of the interview.
How To Nail An Interview (20 Tips) 20 good tips with video to back up the point (in a how-not-to-do-it way)
Food for Thought on Lunch Interviews 10 things to do and not do in a lunch interview. Mostly just be sensible – but often that is what is worth repeating.
10 Interviewing Do’s – this is first in a series of interview-related blog posts, all are worth reading.
The Interviewing Cheat Sheet: 100 Resources for Interviewers and Candidates – immense resource of interview related articles. A lot here, browse at your leisure.
Job Application Advice
The way you apply for a job can have a big impact in whether that application gets noticed or lost. This applies to applications via Monster.com or CareerBuilder or USPS. Too many get lost in the void.
Salary Requirements talking about how to deal with application stage questions about salary past present and future.
10 Smart Tips For Getting the Interview! how to make your application make it passed screens and stand out enough to get that all important interview call.
General Job Search Advice
General advice on the current thoughts on how to approach a job search.
The Job Seeker’s Top 10 List general approaches to gain an edge in the job market
Sourcing Opportunities (Online Job Search) good advice on making the best use of the internet in your job search.
27 Rules For Your Job-Search a pretty comprehensive list of what you should be doing.
Advice: Keeping Spirits High During a Long Job Search job searches take a long time – you need to keep at it.
Seven common job search blunders, and how to avoid them tailor your applications to the job, network, watch out for typos
The Stupidity of the “40 Hour” Job-Search Week and Why it is a Waste of Time a lot of people advise that you should treat a job search like a job – work 40 hours. This article advocates a results-based approach.
Seven observations from my day at the job fair some observations on what job seekers should and very much should NOT be doing.
Ways to energize your job search focus and set yourself goals – “click and apply” does not work.
Hundreds of Applications and Still No Job? note from Careerbuilder with general advice on the whole process of job seeking.
Downsized? Fired? Here are the new rules of finding a job excellent article about making your online presence an advertisement for you.
