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The Power of Interview Preparation:
Partially reprinted with the permission of Bill Radin

... "The Short and Long of It
There are two ways to answer interview questions: the short version and the long version. When a question is open-ended, I always suggest to candidates that they say, “Let me give you the short version. If we need to explore some aspect of my answer more fully, I’d be happy to go into greater depth, and give you the long version.”

The reason you should respond this way is because it’s often difficult to know what type of answer each question will need. A question like, “What was your most difficult assignment?” might take anywhere from thirty seconds to thirty minutes to answer, depending on the detail you choose to give.

Therefore, you must always remember that the interviewer is the one who asked the question. So you should tailor your answer to what he or she needs to know, without a lot of extraneous rambling or superfluous explanation. Why waste time and create a negative impression by giving a sermon when a short prayer would do just fine?"

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ERE Articles, Thu, 29 Jul 2010

Without question, having a large LinkedIn network is a competitive advantage for any recruiter working on hard-to-fill positions and hard-to-find candidates. This advantage is lessened dramatically with LinkedIn Recruiter, since it includes complete visibility to the 70mm+ people in their network. Since this full-visibility product is off-limits to TPRs, it levels the playing field somewhat [...]

Campus Recruiting Manager - Pittsburgh

Jobs in Recruiting, Thu, 29 Jul 2010

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Corporate Recruiter

Jobs in Recruiting, Thu, 29 Jul 2010

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Even Antarctica Has a Job Board, as Job Search Engines Expand Globally

ERE Articles, Wed, 28 Jul 2010

Looking for a job as a chef in the Antarctic? Try looking here. Or if you’re a recruiter looking for an experienced vuvuzela sales person, then this South African job site is one place to start. Talk about global recruiting. In the last couple days, both Indeed and SiumplyHired have announced country-specific (or, in the [...]

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Jobs in Recruiting, Wed, 28 Jul 2010

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ERE Articles, Mon, 26 Jul 2010

Jobmagic has joined the growing number of vendors offering social media recruiting tools. The company, the successor to job-match provider Vitruva, released a tool set for recruiters and employers that simplifies the distribution of jobs to social networking sites and spiffs up their appearance with logos, pictures, and even embeds You Tube videos. Most of [...]

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John Sullivan, Mon, 26 Jul 2010

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