Jacob Share | JobMob

3 Crucial Things You Never Learned in School

Are you one of those people who say they never learned anything in high school? Me neither. I learned a lot in high school, but there were some critical topics that the teachers never mentioned. 1) Parenting Carrying an egg around for a week isn't parenting. The sad thing is just doing that class assignment would have already put you "in the know" compared to most other high school graduates. Looking at how you were raised by your parents will rarely prepare you for the real thing, which is why so many people agonize before having kids and then get stressed out when they do. Or worse, they become bad parents.

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May 10, 2012

Tools You Need

100+ Salary Surveys, Guides and Calculators For 2012

A handy reference for your pre-job interview research. Why you can trust this list * I was very careful to only choose sites that are credible so you can believe their numbers * I was also careful to choose sites that have their own numbers, and aren't simply using reports from global sites like Payscale.com * Different sites have different sources, so compare results across sites for the best ideas

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May 2, 2012

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How To Cope With A Bad Job Interviewer

Sometimes a bad job interview doesn't mean you were a bad job interviewee. This is a guest post by Will Kerr. If you’d also like to guest post here on JobMob, follow these guest post guidelines. When you’re preparing to launch yourself into the lion’s den of a job interview, you’ll usually be entirely focused on your own performance, from planning out your dress, to ensuring you’ll look your best, to perfecting your handshake. While all of these preparations are undoubtedly vital, they make it all too easy to lose track of the fact that an interview is a dialogue and, by its very nature, is not all about you. Unfortunately, how well you interview is only half the equation. You also have to hope you get an interviewer who knows what they’re doing. As someone who’s been on both sides of the table, it becomes immediately obvious when you’ve been lumped with an inexperienced interviewer. This is never ideal, but, as long as you are able to recognize the traits of a bad interviewer, you can take action to make sure that, in spite of them, you still manage to give the best possible account of yourself. Here are some 3 common scenarios that can arise with a poor interviewer and tips for handling them.

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April 25, 2012

Must-Read Tips

10 Ideas To Kickstart Your Personal Brand

Here are some ideas to get your creative branding juices flowing. 1. Join a new community Find a new forum or niche social network and become an active member of the community, participating for at least 15 minutes every single day until you are a recognized expert on the basis of your participation alone. 2. Create a new community Sometimes creating and building a new community might seem easier than trying to stand out in an older established one, or you might have discovered a part of your industry that is under-served, either online or in the real world. 3. Launch an initiative In your industry, is there a fight no one is fighting? An issue that you feel isn't getting as much attention as it deserves? Become the motor for change. In 25 Easy Ways To Grow Your Personal Brand in 5 Minutes, I suggested you "start an industry-related petition" but that's just one example. Launching initiatives is also a great way to build a community.

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April 11, 2012

Speak Your Mind

13 Wild Thoughts On The State Of Job Fairs

Should we get rid of job fairs once and for all? I've been to job fairs in Canada, France and Israel but the Techeads Israeli Hitech Job Fair on March 6th 2012 was the first job fair I'd been to in a while. I had originally planned to go to a recruiting event at the same conference center, just in a different room. When that was canceled, I ended up spending almost the whole day at the job fair instead. And I'm glad I did. After meeting almost all the company reps at the fair and speaking to well over a dozen attendees, here are some thoughts on that job fair and other job fairs in general.

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April 4, 2012