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Interview and Job Advice. How Recruiters See Your Resume. Selection Criteria: How to prepare for a job interview. Tuesday 15 April 2014 Coaching clients often seek help with preparing for a job interview.

Selection Criteria: How to prepare for a job interview

They want to know what they should do to enable them to put their case well. In summary, here are eight steps I think are essential for interview preparations. Re-read your application, resume and job description. Review your research about the job, the organisation, relevant issues. There are also some actions to avoid. Not preparing. Other useful articles: Dr Ann Villiers, learning guide, professional speaker and author, is Australia's only Mental Nutritionist® specialising in mind and language practices that help people build flexible thinking, confident speaking and quality connections with people. Resumes, Resume Writing Services, Free Resume samples, Free Resume Examples. Resume Power Verbs. Strong action verbs can really help drive home your previous success and career achievements.

Resume Power Verbs

They are important to help you start statements that explain your responsibilities and accomplishments. Most people don’t realize that resumes aren’t written in perfect English. The statements are sentence fragments that generally being with a verb. These statements make up the paragraphs that are written under the job headings in the experience section. Sentences in the bullet points of accomplishments are also written suing this stcture.

Sometimes we see people that just say “Assisted this” or “Handled that” when they could be using stronger more compelling words such as streamlined or championed. Resume Power Verbs A through H Resume Power Verbs I through R Resume Power Verbs S through Z. SIRLS: The Information Professional's Glossary. The Information Professional's Glossary Brought to you by the School of Information Resources & Library Science, the University of Arizona Like everything else on the web, this is a work in progress.

SIRLS: The Information Professional's Glossary

Please send suggestions for new terms, or corrections to existing ones, to Ricky Salazar (ricar22 at email.arizona.edu). Folks who have worked on this glossary: Elaine Cubbins, Jeffrey J. Pegoraro, Rob Richards, Charley Seavey, Eileen Smith, Sheila Webber, Jana Varles. A classification scheme that does not provide for minute-subdivision of topics. The principle which allows a category to exist in a classification or thesaurus only if a work exists for that category.

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The Embedded Librarian. You don't look like a librarian! International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Career Strategies for Librarians. 15 Free Live Webinars for Librarians in February. There are a lot of free educational opportunities for librarians coming up this month.

15 Free Live Webinars for Librarians in February

Here’s a list of just the live events happening in February: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 12pm – 1pm ESTManaging for People Who Hate Managing (American Management Association) Nobody prepared you for having to deal with emotions and conflicts and personalities, all while trying to meet ever-greater goals and more pressing deadlines. Drawing on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®, Devora Zack explains that personality-wise and management-wise, we’re either thinkers or feelers. Basically, thinkers lead with their heads and feelers lead with their hearts. 5 Skills Every Leader Must Have. A few years ago, I saw a video by a Harvard professor on competences for adapting to a changing world.

5 Skills Every Leader Must Have

Frankly, it was embarrassing. It was the biggest load of pseudo-intellectual garbage I’d ever heard. Still, the world is changing. It’s becoming a more complex place. I guess that’s always been the case, but the rate of change appears to be accelerating. Fortunately, as a veteran of the high-tech industry, I’ve known and worked with some of the most capable and accomplished folks around. Internet Library for Librarians. Public Library Association (PLA) Internet Library for Librarians. The Object-Oriented Database System Manifesto.