Barriers and Networking
Percentage of jobs gotten through word of mouth
What is 85%
The website you can visit for a list of careers that match Holland Code types
What is O*Net?
Proving your accomplishments and skills by using numbers
What are Quantified Selling Points?
I have 3 cats, grew up in a tiny town in Wisconsin, love pizza, although I can't eat it now because I can't eat dairy because I'm nursing my daughter and she's allergic, and I enjoy thrift shopping.
What is what NOT to say when answering the question, Tell me about yourself.
A meeting in which a potential job seeker seeks advice about a career
What is an Informational Interview
The 6 Holland Code types
What are realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, conventional
The average amount of time an employer looks at a resume
What is 30 seconds?
Providing relevant examples from prior jobs
What is always a good way to answer interview questions.
The attitudes or stereotypes that affect our understanding, actions, and decisions in an unconscious manner.
What is Implicit Bias?
The type of skills employers can train you on
What are hard skills?
The three types of resume formats
What are chronological, functional, and combination?
The STAR method
What is a way to answer behavioral or situational interview questions by focusing on the situation, task, action, and result of a particular past work experience.
Lead the employer back to why you would be a great fit for the position
What is the last step in the Good Answer?
Percentage of job success that comes from having well-developed soft skills?
What is 85%?
What you should include in the last paragraph of a cover letter
What is request an interview and include your contact information again.
A question you should NEVER ask in an interview
Things that negatively impact your employability for a specific job or company
What are specific barriers?
2 of the 7 categories of soft skills that employers look for?
What are interpersonal skills, integrity, professionalism, initiative, dependability/reliability, adaptability, and lifelong learning?
To whom it may concern
What is something you should never use to address a cover letter
What are 2 pens, a calendar, copies of your resume, copies of reference pages, and your notes