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Phone Interviews: 8 Steps To Be Prepared
It’s important to handle a telephone interview properly. Recruiters and hiring managers are all managing heavy schedules. A telephone interview is a great way to see if a candidate ‘fits’ before scheduling all the formal interviews. It’s a cost-effective and efficient way to screen candidates. It also gives the candidate the opportunity to see if…
Read MoreHow to Work Remotely Using Only Your Smartphone
Commentary from… Ken Rogers, SEO Specialist The fact that you can work remotely using your smartphone will be good news for many in the workforce today. You can be rest assured that your phone can come in handy and do the necessary job whenever you cannot use your laptop or computer. Many smartphone apps provide…
Read MorePost Interview Thank You Notes: A 5-Step Template
Even with online and telephone interviews, a written thank you note is still needed and expected. Writing a thank you note can be easy if you jot down a notes during the interview so you can remember some specific details about the opportunity. Most important, make sure you get everyone’s name.
Read More6 Ways To Show Confidence In An Interview
Showing confidence in an interview is a necessity but you most be careful that you do not come across as arrogant or over-confident.
Read MoreInterviewing: 3 Tactics For An Effective Interview
Interviewing is difficult. With the pandemic, I’m seeing less in-person interviews and more over the phone or on video
Read MoreRedefining the Mobile Phone Business
Robert Reiss This pandemic has sent our country into a rapid economic downturn with massive job losses and millions of people seeking ways to cut costs. It’s a perfect storm on many fronts leaving consumers mainly focused on indispensable items should as food, shelter and yes communication devices such as mobiles and tablets. These devices have become the ultimate form…
Read MoreBad Boss? 6 Signs To Look For During The Interview
Marie Raperto, The Hiring Hub Have a bad boss? They can made your work life miserable. Bad bosses can be miserable to deal with or they can simply have personalities that don’t work with yours. It is essential to find out what your future boss is really like. One way to do this is to…
Read MorePR Measurement: Interview with Eileen Sheil, Cleveland Clinic
PR Measurement is fast becoming a hot topic of conversation among PR practitioners. “Measurement has to be a focus for PR. In the digital world everyone has to start to look at the metrics to help them drive strategy.” Eileen Sheil, Executive Director of Communications at the Cleveland Clinic. This is an interview with Eileen…
Read MoreInterviewing Etiquette: 13 Tips To Lower Your Stress
Interviewing etiquette can be stressful. You don’t know what is to come and you want everyone to like you. It can be a recipe for disaster. What you have to remember is that everyone interviewing feels this way and hiring managers and recruiters take it into consideration. But, as the interview approaches, the nerves come out. What can you do to help this? Well, there are a few tips to follow that can help you through the process.
Read MoreVirtual Interviews: 5 Tips To Acing The Techology
Virtual interviews are the new reality. Thanks to new technologies, companies are using virtual interview software to screen candidates, find any red flags and not spend time and money on travel. A virtual interview allows the parties to meet and interact. It can be a live two-way conversation on Skype, FaceTime or Google Hangout, or it…
Read MoreThe Mr. Magazine™ Interview With Randall Lane, Editor, Forbes Magazine
Forbes’ Editor Randall Lane Celebrates Five Years & Proves The Golden Age For Print Magazines Has Only Just Begun “We just got our new MRI numbers a few weeks ago. Forbes magazine is at the highest print readership in its 99 year history; print readership. Not online, but print. And that’s MRI, independent research. We’re…
Read MoreYou’re Ready For Your Video Interview. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
By Carol Kinsey Goman, Ph.D Don’t like being interviewed on video? Prefer an in-person meeting? Well, according to Chris Brown, Vice President of Human Resources at West Corporation, you are out of luck. Video interviewing is here to stay. Love it (most Millennials) or loathe it (many of the rest of us) we’ve all got…
Read MoreChopped: How To Make A Lunch Interview Successful
Lunch interviews happen quite frequently. The job might be confidential, interviewers might not have the time in the office, an employer might want to see your social skills or they might want to impress you. Whatever the situation, you are being evaluated and you must be prepared. Here are a few dos and don’t to…
Read MoreThe Mr. Magazine™ Interview With Glamour Editor-In-Chief, Cindi Leive
“I think that print has the ability to commemorate a moment. I think it was a top executive at ESPN Magazine years ago who was talking about being at Tiger Woods’ house and he went down into his basement and there alongside all of his major trophies, he had framed his first cover of ESPN…
Read MoreVisual Storytelling At Its Best – The Mr. Magazine™ Interview With David Griffin
“There’s an advantage with print in that it is wholly an intimate and static environment by which you can consume the content, so as your reading it’s quiet and it’s intimate. And the looking at photographs and the movement of photographs in print also has an intimacy and quietness to it. Whereas on the web,…
Read MoreThe Mr. Magazine™ Interview With Stephen Orr, Better Homes and Gardens New Editor-in-Chief
Better Homes and Gardens: The Mother Of All Consumer Magazines Prepares For Its Next Century Under New Leadership “Magazines to me are not the thing that people carry around in their purse or under their arm as much as they used to, but the magazine to me is a quieter activity; it’s a less hectic…
Read MoreNo Media Relations = Less Credibility for Your Campaigns
Maury Tobin, President, Tobin Communications, Inc. Let’s me say it clearly. I believe in the power of social media because I’ve seen how it can propel our clients’ campaigns. But as traditional outreach (media relations) gets left out of many communications plans and discussions, I’m convinced that a social media-only strategy can be a big…
Read MoreU.S. Advertising And Marketing Execs Reveal Hiring Plans Through 2016
A CommPRO News Update According to research from The Creative Group, thirteen percent of executives in advertising and marketing plan to expand their teams in the second half of 2016. This is up from 11 percent in the first half of the year. The majority of those surveyed said they expect to maintain staff levels…
Read MoreA Broadcaster’s Take on Social Media and How it Impacts PR and the Media
Live streaming video technology presents an exciting — but often overlooked — earned media opportunity for public relations and communications specialists. The next time you pitch broadcast media, think beyond traditional on-air coverage. In addition to using social media to gather information and interact with viewers, many television newsrooms across the country are turning to social to broadcast stories –…
Read MoreThe Most Important Issue That Democrats Must Campaign On If They Hope To Win the 2002 Mid-Term Elections (With An Important Lesson For PR Practitioners)
Arthur Solomon Historically, Democrats have campaigned on bread and butter issues. But in my opinion beginning right now – with only a little more than a month before the mid-term elections on November 8 – they must change their tactics for the remainder of the days leading up to the mid-terms and campaign on the…
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