Release in JibberJobber

New Updates/Release in JibberJobber Monday night we released some of the projects our team has been working on.  They barely took a breath to release it while continuing on some other things here are some of the things we pushed out on Monday night: 1. We continue to tweak the interface for Pluralsight videos We put a help icon in the white box right under the menu, and if you turned that off, you can still get to Pluralsight stuff by mousing over Tools, and then find Pluralsight Videos.  This takes you to all of the pages you would want to see (list of videos, your private code, the Tracker, etc.).  The whole idea is to make this easier for you to get access to the videos, and report what you have watched so you get an additional week of JibberJobber per course watched. 2. We cleaned up the Tree View including: We cleaned up this line took out 1/2 of the words. We cleaned up this line took out about 1/2 of the words. We changed the icon from a paper looking thing that was hard to see/read to this easy-to-read circle. We highlight the name of the person that you clicked on the tree from, so its easy to see where that person falls. We moved some of the links to the far right, so it cleans up the left side of the screen. See a theme?  CLEANER 3. Along those lines, we cleaned up the Interview Prep main page, which was just too busy.  Not going to highlight every change, but each arrow represents where we cleaned up (I even forgot an arrow right under the title) the idea is to reduce clutter and not make you feel like you have too read a bunch of stuff before you do something in JibberJobber! 4. We made the page numbers on the bottom of the general search cleaner, and easier to read.  Basically all of the numbers are bigger, and the page you are on is much bigger (and not a link).  This will make navigating through the search results easier.  CLEANER! 5. We updated the About Us page so people wouldnt hate so much.  Really, someone emailed a while back angry that the About Us page was written wrong.  Angry.  Seriously.  Well, of course, its not a bad idea to make changes and so I finally spent some time rewriting the page. you can now see information about JibberJobber, and a bit of our history.  And this rewrite cleans up some of the cobwebs that frankly needed to be removed from that page.  CLEAN-UP We also did some new admin, behind-the scenes stuff that you wont see or notice, but that will have an impact on how we work so yeah!  We are deep into two big projects right now, but will continue to try and clean JibberJobber to make your experience more delightful and intuitive. New Updates/Release in JibberJobber Monday night we released some of the projects our team has been working on.  They barely took a breath to release it while continuing on some other things here are some of the things we pushed out on Monday night: 1. We continue to tweak the interface for Pluralsight videos We put a help icon in the white box right under the menu, and if you turned that off, you can still get to Pluralsight stuff by mousing over Tools, and then find Pluralsight Videos.  This takes you to all of the pages you would want to see (list of videos, your private code, the Tracker, etc.).  The whole idea is to make this easier for you to get access to the videos, and report what you have watched so you get an additional week of JibberJobber per course watched. 2. We cleaned up the Tree View including: We cleaned up this line took out 1/2 of the words. We cleaned up this line took out about 1/2 of the words. We changed the icon from a paper looking thing that was hard to see/read to this easy-to-read circle. We highlight the name of the person that you clicked on the tree from, so its easy to see where that person falls. We moved some of the links to the far right, so it cleans up the left side of the screen. See a theme?  CLEANER 3. Along those lines, we cleaned up the Interview Prep main page, which was just too busy.  Not going to highlight every change, but each arrow represents where we cleaned up (I even forgot an arrow right under the title) the idea is to reduce clutter and not make you feel like you have too read a bunch of stuff before you do something in JibberJobber! 4. We made the page numbers on the bottom of the general search cleaner, and easier to read.  Basically all of the numbers are bigger, and the page you are on is much bigger (and not a link).  This will make navigating through the search results easier.  CLEANER! 5. We updated the About Us page so people wouldnt hate so much.  Really, someone emailed a while back angry that the About Us page was written wrong.  Angry.  Seriously.  Well, of course, its not a bad idea to make changes and so I finally spent some time rewriting the page. you can now see information about JibberJobber, and a bit of our history.  And this rewrite cleans up some of the cobwebs that frankly needed to be removed from that page.  CLEAN-UP We also did some new admin, behind-the scenes stuff that you wont see or notice, but that will have an impact on how we work so yeah!  We are deep into two big projects right now, but will continue to try and clean JibberJobber to make your experience more delightful and intuitive. New Updates/Release in JibberJobber Monday night we released some of the projects our team has been working on.  They barely took a breath to release it while continuing on some other things here are some of the things we pushed out on Monday night: 1. We continue to tweak the interface for Pluralsight videos We put a help icon in the white box right under the menu, and if you turned that off, you can still get to Pluralsight stuff by mousing over Tools, and then find Pluralsight Videos.  This takes you to all of the pages you would want to see (list of videos, your private code, the Tracker, etc.).  The whole idea is to make this easier for you to get access to the videos, and report what you have watched so you get an additional week of JibberJobber per course watched. 2. We cleaned up the Tree View including: We cleaned up this line took out 1/2 of the words. We cleaned up this line took out about 1/2 of the words. We changed the icon from a paper looking thing that was hard to see/read to this easy-to-read circle. We highlight the name of the person that you clicked on the tree from, so its easy to see where that person falls. We moved some of the links to the far right, so it cleans up the left side of the screen. See a theme?  CLEANER 3. Along those lines, we cleaned up the Interview Prep main page, which was just too busy.  Not going to highlight every change, but each arrow represents where we cleaned up (I even forgot an arrow right under the title) the idea is to reduce clutter and not make you feel like you have too read a bunch of stuff before you do something in JibberJobber! 4. We made the page numbers on the bottom of the general search cleaner, and easier to read.  Basically all of the numbers are bigger, and the page you are on is much bigger (and not a link).  This will make navigating through the search results easier.  CLEANER! 5. We updated the About Us page so people wouldnt hate so much.  Really, someone emailed a while back angry that the About Us page was written wrong.  Angry.  Seriously.  Well, of course, its not a bad idea to make changes and so I finally spent some time rewriting the page. you can now see information about JibberJobber, and a bit of our history.  And this rewrite cleans up some of the cobwebs that frankly needed to be removed from that page.  CLEAN-UP We also did some new admin, behind-the scenes stuff that you wont see or notice, but that will have an impact on how we work so yeah!  We are deep into two big projects right now, but will continue to try and clean JibberJobber to make your experience more delightful and intuitive.

Content Marketing for Recruiters in 2017

Content Marketing for Recruiters in 2017 Last year I spoke to Joe Pulizzi, founder of the Content Marketing Institute,  about what we could expect from content marketing in 2016. You can listen back to that podcast again if you need reminding but if you would rather look forward, you’ll be pleased to know I caught up with him again. This time we talked about what the future of content marketing holds for 2017 and beyond. Have a listen to the podcast below and make sure to  subscribe  so you’ll never miss an episode. Whats been happening in the world of content marketing over the last year? This time last year, it seemed like people were not spending as much as we anticipated because content marketing is still one of the faster-growing areas of marketing itself.  It seems like thats changed  and it seems like were getting people that are positive, feeling good about this year, and starting to look at their content marketing plans and investing in them. Here are some of the big trends that I think we are seeing: A lot more attention is being paid to distribution than creation. I think what happened in 2013-14 into 15 and beyond, we were looking at, Oh, were going to create all this great content and people would find it, but they didnt find it. International businesses created a lot of content that just went unseen and unheard. And now they realize, Look, if you dont have an established audience, youre going to have to spend some money on promoting that content. So were seeing a lot more integration with advertising programs, and content marketing, which is really interesting to see. Were starting to see the merger and acquisition market really heat up around content marketing, not just in the publishing space but in brands actually buying media companies, buying blogger sites, and buying influencer sites. The case study that I love to talk about is Arrow Electronics. Theyre one of the largest electronics manufacturers in the world and they purchased a number of media sites from our London-based parent company UBM.  And I think thats interesting, that youre seeing brands start to purchase media companies, as they become media companies. There is a little bit of a move away from organic social, to paid distribution. This is unfortunate and I hate to say this because Im the biggest cheerleader out there when it comes to content marketing. I think youre going to have a lot of big companies that basically say, Were not doing this. Its not working for us. They treat it like advertising, they treat it like a campaign, theyre still talking about themselves, and theyre not focusing on the needs of their customers or prospects like they should. And they say, Well, I dont have the patience for this. Weve got quarterly numbers to hit and were going to focus on direct marketing and public relations and advertising and interruption. So youre going to have a lot of haves and have-nots going into 2017, the end of that year, and 2018. I think another thing that were seeing is this focus on purpose or a higher purpose. Starbucks is a really great example. They have their Upstanders program that came out about six months ago, and they basically focus on human beings that are doing amazing work out there. A lot of that work is with the veterans and they wanted to shine a light on that and they created an ongoing program. They hired a journalist and a storyteller from The Washington Post to do that and theyre committing to make that happen. And I think you will see more and more of it, whether its Chipotle and looking at sustainable foods or whether its Patagonia and looking at, we want to make sure we work with companies that have fair trade and good employee practices,. So those are the types of things I think were going to start seeing, where you have big enterprises. Theyre going to say, Look, instead of just our content marketing program, can we answer our customers questions and do it really well, lets focus on something bigger that actually can create a movement and do something special instead of just always focusing on business.” Content with a conscience if you like. Who’s doing content marketing right in the HR space? I think that if we look in the HR area, if you look at what Monster.com is doing, they have absolutely gone out and said, “What type of marketer do we want to hire for our organization?” And the type of marketer that they’re trying to hire for their organization, are journalists, writers, editors and storytellers. Obviously there’s traditional marketing that still happens and you have those traditional functions but what they were missing years ago as part of their overall strategy was how do we attract the right talent? How do we make sure that we have those relationships that are working? How do we work for the entire organization? They said, “We need to tell better stories. And we need to create an ongoing process that everyone’s involved in that makes sense.” So it’s interesting to see that more and more of their hires are storytellers, are journalists, and they’re hiring from media companies. And we’re seeing that happen not just in the UK not just at HR comp anies, but that’s happening through enterprises in every marketplace. Who are the new marketers out there? The new marketers are actually publishers and journalists, which is interesting and it’s actually easier to train a journalist on marketing than a marketer on how to be a good storyteller. So, at least that’s what we’ve seen. Follow Joe on Twitter @JoePulizzi and remember to subscribe to the Employer Branding Podcast.

On the Job by Anita Bruzzese What To Do When the Gossip is About....You

On the Job by Anita Bruzzese What To Do When the Gossip is About....You Go ahead and fess up.I know you look at those gossip rags near the checkout supermarket lines. I know that you know that Brad and Angelina had twins. I also know that you are aware John Edwards cheated on his wife, Elizabeth. If you dont know these things, then youre not human and obviously live under a rock.As much as all of us proclaim we dont listen, see, spread, smell or otherwise consume gossip, we really do. Maybe not on purpose. Maybe just by accident. We cant help it, we say. We cant walk around with our palms over our ears singing nah, nah, nah or slap our hands over our eyes so that we dont see Britney Spear exiting a car sans underwear.And the same is true of the workplace. If you have a job, then you have gossip. Maybe we dont even think of it as gossip, but call it that more politically correct term, office politics. We listen to it because sometimes our very survival depends on it. Were aware of the blow-up the boss had with his boss. We know that positions may be cut i n another department. We have heard that a co-worker has been demoted for yelling at a colleague. All of that, we say, is important stuff we need to know.But then one day, youre sitting at work, and you realize that the talk is about you. You realize there are discussions about the mistake you made last month that cost the company money. Or, you find out that people are talking about your son being arrested for DUI. Maybe there are snickers or sly glances your way and lots of hushed tones to indicate youre the subject of some kind of gossip.You ignore it as long as you can. Youre hoping it goes away. You figure the gossips will tire of you and move onto something else. Still, no matter how much you try to put it out of your mind, you realize that the gossip mill continues to grind away, and youre still caught in it.While our mothers may have taught the old sticks and stones routine to us when we were in school, it doesnt always work when were older. For one thing, gossip can hurt ou r careers. For another, it can make us physically sick and unable to do our jobs. And heres the real modern-day kick: It can continue to be spread online.So, what to do when you realize youre the object of gossip at work? There are several routes to take, depending on what you feel is best for you at the time:1. Confront the source. This takes a lot of guts, and you need to do it in a calm way. Walk up to the person and say: I heard that youve been discussing issues in my personal/professional life. Then, summarize what youve heard: I understand that youve been talking about my son/job performance, and I would appreciate it if you would come to me if you have any questions or comments rather than talking to others about it. 2. Ask for help. If you think someone may be talking about you, but youre not sure (or maybe are sure), then you can act as if youre enlisting their aid, which can help shame them into stopping their wagging tongue. There seems to be gossip going around about me. I dont know if youve heard it, but its really not OK with me. If you hear anyone gossiping about me, Id appreciate it if you tell them to stop.3. Keep your nose clean. The worst thing you can do if youre being gossiped about is to attack with the same kind of talk. Make sure no one sucks you into talking about the person who may be gabbing about you, or tries to ratchet up the destructive comments. Just change the subject, or say: You know, I dont like talking about other people. I know what that feels like, and its really hurtful.4. Go to the boss. This can be risky. If your boss doesnt support you in stopping the gossip and confronting the ones at fault, then the gossip is only bound to get worse. The only choice may be leaving the job. Still, if your company has a formal policy in place that states no gossiping, you could have a better foundation to build your case.What would you do if you were being gossiped about at work? Is there any way to avoid it? del.icio.us

Melissa is getting married

Melissa is getting married I confess that she got engaged way earlier than just now. I had to get used to the idea. Its a big change and of course Im happy for her, but Im nervous about the change. I like the guy. Okay, of course I like the guy. Melissa is very good at setting a goal and meeting it. He is smart and interesting and loves Melissa and he is maybe the only person in the world who is as obsessed with gaming airline miles as she is. But back to me. I notice that Ive been thinking in analogies lately. My professor in grad school told us that writers use analogies to keep distance. Like the ants in Farewell to Arms. Hemingway cant watch all his minor characters blow up at the end of the book. So he sets the ants on fire. But recently I read that  people do that as a way to form consensus. In my mind, consensus is railroading, to my own end. (And that is a metaphor, not an analogy.) But I think my analogistic fervor comes from wanting to have consensus with me and Melissa about what our next phase will be. Here is an analogy Ive been using lately. Deciding to have kids is like deciding to have spaghetti. If the only option for dinner is spaghetti, then thats what youre eating. You can only pick something that is not spaghetti if you have something else to eat. It wont work to say, There are a lot of really good things I could eat. Thats irrelevant. Those things are not in your kitchen. You will starve. So it is true that spaghetti is mostly carbs, and stains your clothes, and probably you only have crappy canned sauce for the pasta. There are lots of bad things about spaghetti, but if there are no other choices then its irrelevant that there are things you dont like about spaghetti. Which is to say that if you have a choice between having kids and nothing else specific enough to evaluate then you dont have a choice. All you have is kids. If you dont know if you want kids, but you have nothing else you want, then you want kids. Sometimes I think if I talk enough people will give in. They will say Im right. Sometimes this tactic has worked with Melissa, but that phase is over. G. I guess we will use this name for him. G will not put up with that. He has very good boundaries. I do not have good boundaries. Thats why you read my posts. One of my favorite things about G is that he doesnt mind when Melissa and I talk late at night. I told Melissa I have PTSD from her last boyfriend not letting us talk. She says she does too. But I think its worse for me because I couldnt dump him. So I was really touched that G not only lets us talk, but he joins in. Every time. Hes always there on speaker phone. I always look forward to our late-night talks and thats pretty much the nicest thing I could ask for from the guy Melissa chooses. I have a new business plan every night. Its a coping mechanism. Like some parents drink wine after the kids go to bed. I spout business ideas. Well, and my kids never go to bed. I tell G and Melissa I met someone who wants to overhaul the pro beach volleyball system. G asked how Ill make money. Hes all about money, which will not surprise you if you have heard my tirades about how women should marry someone who can support them. I just realized that I use analogies to entertain myself. Do you allow yourself to marry a felon? No. Because conjugal visits are annoying. So you make a rule for yourself, no felons, and then you work around the restriction. You can do the same thing with partners who cannot support a family. Or maybe I make analogies to pontificate when Im a hypocrite. Because its not like I ever chose someone who could support me. So G asks how Ill make money. Thats usually my role. To tell someone their business idea sucks because it wont make money. I like that he can be that role for me. People think when someone tells them the flaw with their business that its mean, but actually, when someone takes the time to consider the business and come up with the flaw, thats a gift. I feel cared about each night when G dropkicks my ideas. Another night I was telling Melissa that I dont know what my role is in her life now. Im the Velveteen Rabbit.  People like metaphors because its a sensory way to present a complicated idea. I am hoping this is not true in this particular case because it is so pathetic for me to say Im Melissas Velveteen Rabbit. I better be something better than that. I could not have written this post without the distraction of metaphors and analogies. I dont want to write about this topic. I dont like this topic. I cried at my brothers wedding. And it wasnt from joy. I told Melissa this post will have to stand in for tears at her wedding because now Im too old to have mascara streaming down my face.

Why Your Teachers Aide Resume Must Be One of the Best?

Why Your Teachers Aide Resume Must Be One of the Best?If you are applying for a teacher's aide job, it is important to have a teacher's aide resume. This is one of the most essential tools that you can have when searching for a teaching position. Here are a few ways you can use a teacher's aide resume.The first way you can use a teacher's aide resume is to determine what your strengths and weaknesses are. Do you excel in certain areas of the job such as math or art? Then you will want to focus on those particular skills.Teachers aides also have some career options such as one-on-one teaching. So when writing your resume, you should also include this area of the field. You may also be working with other teaching assistants and you may want to include this in your resume. In this case, you can work on areas like differentiating yourself from others, your professionalism, and your adaptability to other areas of the job.You also need to consider the schools you would like to work in. If you want to work in an elementary school, it is helpful to highlight areas that match these schools. You may want to highlight your knowledge of teachers and your understanding of the classroom. For example, you might want to highlight teaching specific subjects such as foreign languages, physical education, and math.It is also helpful to look at the companies that are looking for teachers and the types of aid jobs that they are offering. Often times, it can be helpful to highlight your experience with a certain company. This will help you get better job offers and show potential employers that you can be successful in their industry.Finally, your resume should be well organized. You should keep all of your information in chronological order so that you will have the most relevant information. This is one of the best ways to organize your resume because you are getting all of the information that you need at a glance. However, you should also look at all of your other documents to m ake sure that you do not leave anything out.Just like any job search, your teacher's aide resume should consist of only the best and relevant information. This includes information about your education, as well as the schools you have worked for, and any other information that is pertinent to your current profession. Make sure that all of your information is accurate, well researched, and comes from a reputable source.By doing all of your professional research and preparing a resume that you can easily send out, you will find that it is much easier to land that teaching position that you are after. Take advantage of your resume and send it off today!

Thoughts about starting out with a startup

Thoughts about starting out with a startup 1 Flares 1 Flares This is a guest post from Scott Hale.  Scott blogs over at Highway to Hale, a blog about community building and creative problem solving.  You can find Scott on Twitter @sjhalestorm and catch him as a Co-Moderator of the popular Twitter chat, #u30pro. Alluring Possibilities in Muddy Waters Let me start with my story. It’s no secret that my graduating class of 2009 was entering a piss-poor job market. After a summer of job searching, my refusal to send out a blanket of standard resumes was starting to pay off. I was seeing some interest. One option was a startup agency. I hadn’t considered working for a startup straight out of college, but I came into contact with a new company that was looking to grow quickly. They were very honest that they wanted to make me their first hired employee and hit the ground running with some help from investors. To make a long story short, the company offered me a salary and benefits and I accepted. But things are rarely set in stone with startup companies. After six months, full-time is a distant dream and benefits haven’t even entered the atmosphere of thought. In other words, they jumped the gun by making an offer. Silver Lining in Stormy Clouds I know it doesn’t sound like a dreamy situation, but there are some serious perks to working in a startup. Experience: Working with a startup is as close as it gets to a baptism by fire, because experience flies at you fast. I’ve been forced to learn new skills and broaden my professional repertoire (which is awesome). With so few people on a team, you aren’t likely to have an expert on every project. It’s an opportunity and a necessity to become an expert, or at least a jack-of-all-trades. You’re also going to need to dedicate a chunk of your personal time to learn these new skills that won’t be asked, but demanded of you. Networking: It takes some time for a startup to get some traction, and during that time, employees often have the opportunity to build their personal network and focus on their personal community. As personal brands for employees grow, the company’s visibility can tag along. Not to be a pessimist, but if the startup doesn’t work out, your personal network is a great way to get back into a heavy job search. Options: As noted above, I don’t always have a ton of work to do with the startup â€" My free time has allowed me to work with some incredible people in my industry. I’m like a Social Media Mercenary of sorts. I’m learning more than I could ask for and picking up some extra income at the same time (big thanks to everybody that has taken me in). Make sure you clear this up with your employers before you go out and get projects with outside employers. A final note about startups as a thank you and shout-out to Rich for having me as a guest on COTJ: Hiring at a startup is unique. Without HR and recruiters involved, your network is more important than anywhere else. Creativity and connectivity are your ticket to trust and impressing the right people. Startups aren’t the first places that come to mind during a job search, but they are definitely worth checking out. Just be careful and understand what you are getting into.

How To Interview Like A CEO - Pathfinder Careers

How To Interview Like A CEO - Pathfinder Careers How To Interview Like A CEO Do you absolutely loathe job interviews? Does the word “interview’ send a decidedly ugly chill down your spine? Do you experience a complete mind freeze when prospective employers start asking questions? Most people put job interviewing on the top of their ‘not-so-favorite’ list of things that we all have to do. It’s a necessary evil in a career, and for most, it becomes a much-feared process. The secret to nailing successful interviews has everything to do with attitude. If you let fear rule you, it will. Candidates who have the best results in this arena are those that have the right mindset when they approach the interviewing process. Can you imagine a successful CEO going into an interview with sagging confidence levels, worried about their credentials, and being stressed about how they might answer a question? Certainly not! Being confident and having a positive attitude should make you actually anticipate interviews…this is the point in the job search process where a person should be the most excited about a prospective position and show why they are the best fit. In short, this is when you get to ‘rock and roll’! Instead, most job searchers get caught in the possibility of “What if I do a bad job interviewing?” or “What if I don’t have the skills they need?” which initiates feelings of fear and self-doubt, and can effectively lead to a less-than-stellar interview performance. This, in turn, impacts your answers. Many job seekers end up feeling like they are defending themselves in an interview, rather than showing how their career assets can benefit a prospective employer. This is the wrong approach â€" it’s all about the attitude adjustment. Here are a few secrets taken from the CEO interview rule book on how to portray yourself as the top candidate in this part of the job search process: 1) Engineer a completely different mindset on how you approach interviews. Believe it or not, I am one of those crazy people who absolutely LOVES the interviewing process. My attitude is: “Hit me with your best shot.” I see this as a learning experience on how I can think on my feet while under fire. There is no such thing as a BAD interview experience; it is what you do with it that determines how the next one goes. How many times have you realized afterwards that there were some questions that you could have answered better? The key is to write that question down and add it to your interviewing arsenal so you nail it the next time. This has proven to be an invaluable way of gaining insight into the answers I provided, and assessing how strong and relevant they were to the interviewer’s questions. Learning from your previous mistakes are very powerful lessons indeed. 2) Know your value. To get started in reshaping your interview attitude, you need to understand and be centered on your value. What is it that you offer that beats out the competition? Why should the employer hire you over the next person standing in line behind you? The résumé development process is a good way to work this out. Building value statements and showing action then results really provides a hiring manager a good roadmap of what you are able to accomplish. The critical part is to get those value statements on paper and then ingrain them into your psyche, allowing yourself the opportunity to really feel and understand what you have to offer to prospective employers. Once completed, you are now ready to go sit in the interview hot seat. After all, this is about selling yourself. The best sales people are ones who believe in what they are selling. If you don’t believe in yourself or know your value, you sure as heck aren’t going to sell employer on yourself as a candidate! 3) Do the research. Doing your research about a company is another way to gain confidence in the interview process. The more knowledge you have about a company, the more literate you are in their corporate culture and background. Understanding employer viewpoints, concerns, challenges, and opportunities will help shape your answers. Some employers have outright asked me, “What do you know about us?” or “Why do you want this job?” The more detail you can provide about the employer in answering these types of questions, the more resourceful you come across as being by having done your homework. This plays to your competence and gives you the boost of self-assurance that can propel you to being the top candidate. Plus, it feels pretty awesome to knock an employer’s socks off with some obscure fact about their company they would’ve never guessed that you knew! 4) Tell a story to make a point. Being a master storyteller is also part of the magic formula for knocking the interview out of the proverbial ball park. If you are providing static, robotic, and formulaic answers to questions, that doesn’t give employers any insight to your approach, experience, resourcefulness, or expertise. Responding to interview questions and providing concrete, highly relevant answers that demonstrate your ability to execute job duties in the form of a story are probably the most convincing way to win over employers. Gather up potential interview questions and then quiz yourself on how you would answer each. Then think about a specific story that you can cite that demonstrates how you solved problems or made a difference in the company. These are your story points, and are critical to painting the picture of how your skill sets and experience can benefit the potential employer. 5) Practice public speaking. Does the mere thought of getting in front of an interview panel make you break out into a sweat? Toastmasters International is a phenomenal proving ground where you can grow your public speaking skills in a welcoming, supportive environment. If you are not comfortable presenting to others, this is an imperative skill to master before heading off to an interview. Toastmasters International is a great place to take some of the sting out of public speaking and grow your comfort zone within an interview setting. By getting more experience speaking on the fly and talking in front of groups, this will improve your abilities to come across as extremely succinct and polished in interviews. Overall, when it comes down to reality, CEOs walk into interviews brimming with confidence, ideas and optimism, and you can too! The truth is, you are the CEO of Yourself, Inc. You are a unique sum of your experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, and shifting your whole mindset about job interviews can radically change this from a scary, distasteful process to an uplifting, fun experience. Now go knock your next interview out of the ball park!