Ask the Employment Specialist: Answering difficult interview questions — discussing weaknesses

Dear Joanna, I am an inventory manager with over 10 years experience in purchasing and inventory management in a manufacturing company. I am happy to report that I am getting lots of interviews for relevant positions, but have always been stumped on the question from the hiring Human Resources staff which requires me to identify [...]

Ask the Employment Specialist: Explaining bad job endings to interviewers

We are excited to introduce a brand new feature: Joanna Samuels, our highly experienced Workforce Specialist Team Lead will be collecting questions from job searchers and putting them to our Employment Specialists to give you the best answers possible. Here’s our first installation in Ask an Employment Specialist. We hope you find it useful and [...]

Sound and feel confident at a Job Interview, Part TWO: tell a few good stories

Facing an employer in a job interview is often described as the most stressful and intense moment in the process of finding work. When asked what they fear most about interviews, job searchers often tell me that they worry that they may get so overwhelmed by anxiety that they might forget what they wanted to [...]