It’s hard to find an exact science on how to look for a job. Job searching can be a very daunting experience. With so many methods of applying for jobs, it is getting easier for under-qualified or over-qualified candidates to get in the way of your resume. If you are lucky enough to be called in for an interview, frustrated HR Managers can feel rushed and become numb to candidates’ feelings: greatly impacting the questions they will ask YOU.
Becoming discouraged, you may begin applying for jobs that you’re not that interested in or give up entirely. Don’t give up. Instead, adjust your strategy and make improvements.
Ace Your Job Search is perfect for anyone thinking about or already in the process of searching for a new job. Ace Your Job Search is an online, self-paced course that provides expert advice and helpful information to give you a leg up on your competition.
Ace Your Job Search covers everything from reviewing your career goals and preparing for your job search to submitting a great-looking resume and scoring big on the interview. It even explains appropriate follow up procedures.
This online, self-paced course includes:
- Video and audio components
- Review questions and activities
- Slide shows
- Real examples
- Expert opinions and suggestions
- Printable tips and exercises
- Additional recommended literature
Ace Your Job Search is broken up into 3 detailed portions:
- Tailoring Resumes and Cover Letters for a Perfect Fit
- Interviewing Skills: Make the Right Impression
- Interviewing Skills: Ace Those Tough Questions
Tailoring Resumes and Cover Letters for a Perfect Fit
Sending out the same resume to jobs varying in fields or positions is not effective in finding your dream job. As someone who has looked at countless resumes, I appreciate when someone has taken the time to customize their resume to the position they are applying for.
Part 1: Tailoring Resumes and Cover Letters for a Perfect Fit will help you understand the importance of a cover letter and resume and how to use them to your advantage. The section instructs you on how to appropriately put together your resume. It also includes helpful action words to include in your resume and how to avoid making common mistakes.
This section even walks you through managing references and how to appropriately list them on a reference list. It will even help you format your resume and cover letters for particular submission methods like email, paper, job search websites or the company’s database.
Overall, Tailoring Resumes and Cover Letters for a Perfect Fit will help your cover letter and resume stand out from the crowd and get some face time with HR.
Interviewing Skills: Make the Right Impression
Your work doesn’t stop once you get the call for an interview. This portion of the course walks you through the five steps of the interviewing process:
- Preparation and Research
- Rehearsal
- The Interview
- Following Up
- Reflection and Self-Assessment
Interviewing Skills: Make the Right Impression provides vital information on utilizing each step to your advantage, like how to conduct the company research quickly and effectively, brainstorm potential interview questions and answers, develop interview techniques and even understand appropriate follow-up protocol. You can even use and print out a reflection tool to take notes on how your interview went and brainstorm improvements that can be made on your next interview.
Interviewing Skills: Ace Those Tough Questions
This third section, Interviewing Skills: Ace Those Tough Questions will really help you develop your interviewing skills and feel confident and well-prepared walking in to the interview. This section will help you prepare for the difficult questions like:
- Tell me about yourself.
- Why did you leave your last position?
- Why should we hire you?
- What’s your greatest weakness?
- What’s your greatest accomplishment?
Ace Your Job Search will also help you handle behavioral interviewing questions flawlessly as well as effectively deal with the Hiring Manager’s stress tactics.
Overall, this course will give you a leg up on the competition. You’ll feel more confident in your job search, more prepared in your interview and conduct yourself in a professional and effective manner.
If you have any questions about this or any other course, please contact us via email at learn@corexcel.com or 1-888-658-6641 (Mon-Fri, 9m – 5:30pm Eastern Time).
