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🙅 Avoid These Cover Letter Mistakes!!
Plus: How to avoid sounding desperate and narcissistic in job interviews.
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In today's email:
5 common cover letter mistakes! This is what you should avoid.
Avoid sounding desperate in interviews! Don’t be perceived as a narcissist.
Money money money. Let’s talk salary.
Career WWYD? What would YOU do?
Tips for working parents. How to achieve the perfect work-life balance.
Here’s what’s going on in the news (related to careers of course):
Walmart just opened a pet center.
The Fed announced interest rate decision today.
CNN’s new CEO is focusing on sustainability.
Have you been giving your cover letter as much attention as your resume?
Picture this, you’ve found the perfect job that fits all your skills, experience, and requirements. You spend time polishing your resume, so you can show the hiring manager that you are the best fit for the job. Then you are tired from working on your resume, so you slap together a cover letter. You send in the application and all your materials, but don’t hear anything back. Now, you’re disappointed and wondering why they didn’t give you an interview, even though you were a perfect fit.
Your cover letter can make all the difference in this situation. Hiring managers want to see why you are interested in their company and if your cover letter doesn’t reflect that, you will be passed over. You need to be disruptive and grab their attention, which is not going to happen if you slap together a cover letter in five minutes.
Taking time to craft a well thought out cover letter can make all the difference in getting an interview for the job. We’ve put together some of the most common cover letter mistakes that cause hiring managers to pass over candidates. This is what you need to avoid.
How To Avoid Sounding Desperate In Job Interviews! 😌🙏🥺
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Let’s talk money, specifically your salary. You’re going to get to a point in any hiring process where the employer will ask you for your salary expectations. Before you go into any job search, you should create your ideal salary range for your next job. This range will help guide you through these salary questions that employers ask. Not sure how to create your salary range? No worries, we got you! And if your worried about salary conversations, here’s what you need to know:
🤑 How to come up with your ideal salary range.
💰 What to say when employers ask for a specific amount.
🙅Don’t do this when asked about your salary expectations!
What Would You Do? Below is a work story that isn't true, but it could be! Read this workplace dilemma and then share what YOU would do by clicking the link and submitting your advice. We'd love to hear your response, and may even feature it in the newsletter!
Raj just started a new job. He’s 6 weeks in and nothing he is doing matches what he was hired to do. His boss keeps saying he’ll be doing the work he was hired to do soon, but in talking with some other employees, he’s being told this particular boss is known for the “bait and switch” of jobs. They also told him that he’s the fourth person hired for the job as the previous 3 quit as soon as they realized they weren’t going to be doing the work they were hired to do. Unfortunately, Raj has student loan debts and rent so he can’t quit without another job. He’s miserable in the role and so angry and embarrassed that he didn’t realize in the interview that the job wasn’t as described.
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Juggling growing a career and raising a family is hard work.
Meeting the needs of your children and family while also taking on the demands of your career has been a challenge workers have faced for many years. And while it can be difficult, it’s not impossible.
Being able to manage your time to create a healthy work-life balance is probably the most challenging part of being a working parent. You want to be successful in your career, but also want your family to succeed at the same time. And if one of those aspects doesn’t get adequate attention, then the other aspect will fail too.
So what can working parents do to excel both personally and professionally? How can they find that perfect work life balance?
We recently asked our leading executives for their advice on this topic and here’s what they had to say…
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