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Landing Your Dream Job - A Step-by-Step Approach Works Best

Saturday, September 1st, 2007

Many people dream of landing their dream job.

Ironically, many people dream of landing their dream job while they are stuck at a job that is decidedly not their dream job.

Of course there are many paths a person can take to getting their dream job and this article is going to discuss the various methods a person can use to make sure that their dream job becomes theirs.

You sit at the same desk, day in and day out, doing the same tasks and thinking to yourself, “I hate my job.  I wish I could do something I really love.”

Or, perhaps you are still in school and thinking about the day when you will finally get the perfect job—that job that we all dream about, the one that made us promise that we wouldn’t settle for anything less than it.

Then life happens and there are bills to pay and suddenly we’re still dreaming of that dream job while at the lesser job we settled for.

Getting a Plan is by far the best way forward - are you prepared?

Assessment Centers - What You Can Expect On The Day

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

An assessment center is a hiring process that consists of a variety of different evaluations.

It’s not at all like the more traditional one on one interview and has quite a bit of controversy surrounding its evaluation process.

Let’s look at various aspects involved in the process and explain them.

Many employers are taking steps away from the traditional one on one interview.  More and more employers are favoring a potential employee evaluation process called the Assessment Center.

The Assessment Center is sort of like a group interview, except instead of one person leading the discussion there isn’t any real leader.

Instead a group of trained observers silently evaluate each potential employee and how they react to situations they encounter while at the Assessment Center.

Common situations involve Group Discussions, Role Playing, and sometimes smaller “group interviews.”