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Interview Questions, Answers and Tips! www.Jobxray.com Correct, comprehensive and effective insider tips for job seekers, www.jobxray.com is your single stop for answers to all the tough, sometimes bizarre questions that interviewers around the world can test you with. Job Interviews carry high stakes and can be extremely stressful given the high stakes that they carry. Interviewers can be moody but overall, interviews follow a definite structure. After personally conducting countless interviews and reviewing 1000s of resumes I have squeezed all the tricks into the easy to follow www.jobxray.com Here is one popular article from my blog - How To Become Irresistible To Employers Applying for a new job is a challenging and often frustrating process. One faces many rejections for every prospect that is presented in the form of a job interview. With the number of applications increasing rapidly, getting past electronic filters online and capturing the attention of a hiring manager is the first big hurdle where many falter. As always, there are some simple tricks that will make your application stand out and make you irresistible to employers. Let’s have a look at what job search experts recommend – Stable Background (Work / Education) A reliable employee is worth her weight in gold. Frequent job changes may be in fashion today but employers will always only look for long term employees. Also, to keep a prospective employer intrigued in your resume you must demonstrate that you were a focused student in the past. Good grades need not necessarily translate into a great career (the reverse also holds true) but a dedicated student most often matures into a dedicated employee.

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Page 1: How To Become Irresistible To Employers (from )

Interview Questions, Answers and Tips! www.Jobxray.com

Correct, comprehensive and effective insider tips for job seekers, www.jobxray.com is your single stop for answers to all the tough, sometimes bizarre questions that interviewers around the world can test you with. Job Interviews carry high stakes and can be extremely stressful given the high stakes that they carry. Interviewers can be moody but overall, interviews follow a definite structure. After personally conducting countless interviews and reviewing 1000s of resumes I have squeezed all the tricks into the easy to follow www.jobxray.com Here is one popular article from my blog -

How To Become Irresistible To Employers

Applying for a new job is a challenging and often frustrating process. One faces many rejections for every prospect that is presented in the form of a job interview. With the number of applications increasing rapidly, getting past electronic filters online and capturing the attention of a hiring manager is the first big hurdle where many falter.

As always, there are some simple tricks that will make your application stand out and make you irresistible to employers.

Let’s have a look at what job search experts recommend –

Stable Background (Work / Education)

A reliable employee is worth her weight in gold. Frequent job changes may be in fashion today but employers will always only look for long term employees. Also, to keep a prospective employer intrigued in your resume you must demonstrate that you were a focused student in the past. Good grades need not necessarily translate into a great career (the reverse also holds true) but a dedicated student most often matures into a dedicated employee.

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Interview Questions, Answers and Tips! www.Jobxray.com

If you have moved jobs often or taken breaks during your education, validate them with reasons and value add activities that you undertook in that period.

Impressive Resume

Your faceless sales agent needs to be impressively authored and precisely targeted at the job opportunity at hand. There are expert resume templates that are well accepted by recruiters worldwide and you should leverage these tools rather than try to reinvent the wheel.

Resumes should be short (1-2 pages) and should highlight your skills. If it doesn’t sound impressive to you, it should not be on your resume. In case your profile requires substantial supporting documents you can include them as separate attachments (in both online and printed submissions) or include links to your online portfolio in your resume.

Acing the Interview

If you’ve reached the interview stage you’ve beaten about 90% of your competition! This is great news but there’s still some work to be done before you get to sign the dotted line.

There are a few must do preparatory steps before a job interview which you must positively perform. Interviews are a platform for you to showcase your skills and demonstrate your fitment to the role and organization.

Do your Homework

Ensure that you know the prospective employer and the job profile well. Asking questions like “What does your company do?” or “What do you want me to do here?” screams unprepared-ness and results in rejection. Colleagues, friends, newspapers, magazines and the Internet are handy tools that give you all the information you need.

Knowing how to become irresistible to employers means relating to the company’s goals and showing how you can positively contribute towards its success.

Ask Intelligently

Asking good questions serves two purposes; one, it clarifies any doubts that may be critical for you to decide whether the job meets your expectations, and two, it tells the interviewer that you are serious about the job prospect and are actively pursuing the possibility. Salary though critical for most of us, should not be discussed during the interview; this is a separate discussion that should be had with the Human Resources team after the job interview.

Get to know the 100 Most Frequently Asked Interview Questions including questions that you can ask.

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Think from Their Perspective

Successful job seekers think from the employer’s perspective. All your answers should be from the point of view of what you can offer to the employer. Talk about your past achievements in light of the current position. If your past job had you set up a sales team talk about how you can help the prospective employer increase revenue by using proven skills. If you have worked with teams across borders, then bring out the fact that if there is a strategy to reduce costs through outsourcing, you can be very effective.

Follow Up

Common courtesy isn’t that common anymore and sometimes a simple thank you email can help the hiring manager decide in your favor. While some applicants opt for hand written thank you notes, an email works just as well. Be sure to reiterate the fact that you are very excited about the role and are eager to take on the challenges that come with the new responsibility.

It is important to keep in mind that employers are human and what you say or do can have a lasting impression on their judgment. Most jobs involve teamwork so a good personality and superior soft skills go a long way in making you irresistible to the recruiting team.

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