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Posting your resume on job boards: Companies don’t look on job boards - they post their ads and let the candidates come to them. Recruiters who know how to do their job aren’t looking for resumes on job boards; they’re usually out recruiting. All you’ll get from a job board posting is a lot of spam and calls from recruiters who will tell you they have something, but they don’t. What’s really going on is that they want to use your resume to find something and then they’ll come back to you.

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So what do you do when you’ve done all the prep work for the interview, psyched yourself up, but then the interviewer seemed to be a moron in a business suit? You silently seethe as they ask you inane and irrelevant questions. There’s even those true nightmares where you’re being sexually harassed in the interview. What do you do?

In cases where you’re not in physical or emotional harm, but where you simply know that you would never willingly work for this company, my advice is to keep going through the interview rather than attempting to terminate it, simply because it’s great practice. Take note of the questions they ask you and your answers. How do you feel while you’re answering? I’m guessing that you’re much calmer once you make up your mind that you don’t want this job, and you actually find yourself giving better answers than you did in the past, because the pressure’s off. Maybe you’ve always wondered if it’s possible to take effective notes in an interview–give it a shot. Were you too nervous to laugh in other interviews, or did your small talk feel a little stilted? Relax and make a lighthearted joke about the weather being so changeable you have your wool suit and gloves in your car in case it turned snowy on the way to the interview. See how they react. Read more

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