It’s been a while since my last entry on One Day, One Job, but I thought that it was worth revisiting a topic that I wrote about back in February - Using the Internet to Become the Candidate of Choice. Executive bios and news releases are great research tools, but the Investor Relations pages on the websites of publicly traded companies provide a wealth of information about how a company is doing and what direction they are planning to take over the next year. Admittedly, the information found in investor relations is not as easy to digest as what you might see on a Recent News page, but clever deductions from Investor Relations information can pay dividends in an interview, pun intended. Continue reading about Using Investor Relations Info in Your Job Search…
For most new job seekers, the candidate selection process is incredibly opaque. Although some companies offer feedback on interviews, this is usually a half-hearted collection of vague generalities. Comments such as “the applicant pool was very large,” don’t tell you anything, and positive feedback such as “you were very friendly,” tell you something that you knew already. To be quite frank, these comments simply sugarcoat the fact that you were not the candidate of choice. This doesn’t mean that you couldn’t do the job - chances are you wouldn’t have been interviewed if that was the case - but it does mean that you failed to demonstrate to your interviewers why you were the best option. Continue reading about Becoming the Candidate of Choice: A Web-based Approach…
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