Jobs are hard to find these days and even tougher to get – it’s now a fact of life. The job search is daunting – even the highly skilled and highly educated can find themselves out of work for months as they search for a career. If you find yourself at an interview for a highly sought-after job, you will also likely find yourself in a pool of many candidates. This can mean that the hiring manager could see twenty or more resumes and host ten or more interviews in a day. You need a great way to stand apart from the crowd? Following up with the person who interviewed you is one way to keep your name and interview fresh on their mind.

There is a professional way and a non-professional way to follow up with a potential employer. A non-professional way would be to try to friend the hiring manager on Facebook following your interview. Instead, making a quick phone call or compose a brief email to let the hiring manager know that you are appreciative of the opportunity and look forward to hearing back from them.

To give more specific examples, when making a phone call, be prepared to express the following. (And don’t be afraid to rehearse for a little confidence, that will only serve you better during the call.)

• Remind the hiring manager of who you are, what job you interviewed for and when the interview took place
• Tell them that you are appreciative of the opportunity to meet with them
• Then reiterate how you could best address their challenges and goals based on your education, experience or capabilities

The most important thing to remember is keep it brief. You don’t want to hold that person up from their own job, so a quick, polite call to follow up with what you said during the interview can go a long way.

When choosing to email instead, stick to the same ideas of content: Remind , be appreciative, and reiterate your fit for the job.

An example email might read:

Dear Mr. Cooper,
Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to interview for the corporate sales position at TAO Communications. I feel my prior experience as a sales consultant in the print publication business can positively serve the corporate sales associate position at TAO. After 12 years of media sales, I believe I am an ideal candidate for the position at TAO and am confident that my knowledge base will generate positive results in the sales department.

If you have any questions or wish to discuss anything further with me, please feel free to contact me at (123)456-7890 or email me at JohnW@ johnw.com. I look forward to discussing how I can best meet the goals and challenges of the sales associate position.

Sincerely,

John West

If you interviewed with more than one person, consider approaching the person you most recently interviewed with, as this is likely to be the decision maker.

By following up either by phone or email, you ensure that you stand out that much more than the people who didn’t bother to follow up at all. The job search is tough, and following up is one more way to gain a competitive edge. The follow-up expresses confidence and interests and assures the hiring manager that you are genuinely interested and not afraid to stand out.

Diane Johnson graduated from the University of Utah with a degree in political science. When she’s not traveling she enjoys writing articles about online education, reading books and shopping.

The following is from a new series in which we take a look at the inner workings of a particular career industry.  Each article in this series will feature a guest contribution from an industry insider.

I have spent three years as a Customer Service Supervisor

My typical day consists of coming in and running through my daily reports. I then take the trends I find to my Customer Service Reps (CSRs) to go over their previous days performance. I try to spend at least 50% of my day on the floor answering questions and coaching as needs be, but some days meetings prevent me from doing so.

I’m a white male, but I do not feel that has held the progression of my career back any. I work for a nation-wide, American bank which focuses on diversity, but also promotion based on performance. Anyone who works, performs and adds to the bottom line can move up regardless of their race, sex, or any other diverse aspect they may bring to the table.

I would rate my job as a five. There are a lot of office politics played where I work. The problem is a lot of the managers incentives are based off of attrition goals. The lower their attrition numbers, the bigger their incentive. In theory, low attrition is a good thing, but when management consistently turns a blind eye to unethical behavior to protect that incentive, it makes for an unproductive and disheartening work environment.

I learned the hard way early on in my time in this position to choose my battles carefully. When I started I was young and stupid. If I felt someway about something, I had no problem expressing my opinion about it. I ticked off a few higher ranking people, and in the short run had to eat some crow to get back in their good graces. Looking back, it was just me making rookie mistakes. I will still speak up about things, but I have learned to do it in a tactful manner, and only on things about which I’m truly passionate.

Piggybacking on that last response, I wish there was a class in school which taught you how to view things in a more strategic manner, and also be able to read the underlying issues of the situation. That would have aided in me keeping my mouth shut on the more trivial things of our office.

I moved up through the ranks to get to where I’m today. I started in Collections, and was a phone collector for three years. I got tired of harassing people and moved over to our Customer Service department. After a few years on the phones there I wanted to make more money and get off the phones, so I began pursuing the supervisor job path. If I could go back and do it again, I wouldn’t change much because I’m happy with where I am now and where I’m going.

One of the strangest things that happened to me was we had a team member who was rather larger and would randomly faint. No real serious issue caused this, it would just happen. While out on the floor one time we were walking towards each other and sure enough she fainted. I did my best to catch her, but being bigger than me, we both ended up on the floor with her on top of me. We had the Senior Management team in town that day, and they came around the corner to find this large woman laying on me in the middle of the floor. Explaining that took a bit of tact, and we all had a good laugh after the fact, but it was still pretty strange.

The best feeling I have on days when things go well is when my team is out performing everyone else and I get to buy them lunch on the company dime to say thank you. It is fun to have a free lunch, especially when everyone else on the floor gets to see it and knows it is because we rock!

I don’t like dealing with team members who are just there to collect a check. The bulk of my performance is based on their performance, and if they truly don’t want to be there, it is hard to motivate them to do better than the minimum.

My job can be stressful if I make it that way, but I take one day at a time and most things with a grain of salt. I have a great support system of family and friends, and when that five o’ clock whistle blows, I’m out the door to be with them.

I currently make about $45K/year, with a monthly bonus between $400-$600 after taxes. In reality, for what I do, this is a really good wage.

Prior to the Bank Bailouts, my company used to sponsor an all-expenses paid trip for the top 100 employees every year. I won this a few years ago and was able to take my wife with me. It was a huge honor and one of the highlights of my career.

I think the most challenging moment I faced was when we had a team member suffer a heart attack and die on the floor. Although I was off when it happened, my peers who were there handled it poorly so we had to deal with the backlash from that after the fact as well as grieve and help our team members to be able to grieve. That was horrible, and I hope I don’t ever have to do it again.

I have found a lot of success in my ability to communicate and help my team through our every changing environment. I also have a heart for people. This has helped me immensely. If I ever get to the point I find myself not caring about my people, I’ll know it is time for me to find another line of work.

If I had a friend wanting to get into management, I would tell them, you have to love people, and want the best for them.  If they’re getting into it for the money, they will be sadly disappointed.

With this position, I get five weeks of paid vacation, and I take it all. Whereas I like what I do, this job can burn you out if you let it. My time away from the office is very important to me.

One of the common misconceptions, and running joke around the office, is that supervisors are nothing more than adult babysitters. Some days this can be very true, but I try not to buy into that because I don’t want to become jaded about what I do.

A lot of days this job does move me. Especially when I can promote one of my team members or see them succeed, or in those instances where we are speaking with a customer who is in a tough spot and we can help find them a resolution. On those days, it really is fun to be me.

In five years I would like to be a little further up the management chain. The more people I can work with from a management standpoint, the more people I can potentially impact for the good. I would also like to think being a little further up the ladder would allow me to change some of the things which are pain points for us today.

I’m nothing special, although my friends and family might argue differently. I was raised with a strong work ethic which I have employed to get me to where I am today. I would like to think that same ethic would continue to propel me further in my career. I’d also like to think anyone else who works as hard as me can find similar success as well.

Considered working as an Lab Technician? This interview will take you through the ups and downs you can expect in the position, what it takes to land the job, what you can expect to earn and more. This is a true career story as told to LatPro.com for its What They Don’t Teach series and a collection of interviews with Hispanic and bilingual professionals from a Division Leader to a Digital Marketing Contractor, and everything in between.

1. Get general information about your potential employer. You can use the internet to research the business operations of the organization that you want to work with by looking at their recent articles posted on the press or their annual reports. You can also find information about the businesses that they compete with and with this information; you will cause your interviewer to have a feeling of admiration and respect for you.

2. Find information about the businesses that offer stiff competition to the organization you want to work with so that you will display this information in your job interview. You can get information about competitors by researching the companies that sell similar goods or services to the company you want to work with. Having this information will be impressive especially if your interviewer is a manager.

3. Find adequate information about the job you want to get. You can do this by getting detailed information about the specifications of the job from other employees working for the organization. For example, you can ask an employee working for the human resources department about the vacancy and its relationship with other jobs in the organization. You can also get such information from people who work in the field that you want to pursue and find out about what interviewers want job seekers to have when interviewing for such positions.

4. Find information about the values and ideas that the employees of the organization you want to work for regard highly. For example, they may regard values such as entrepreneurship and consensus highly and this can influence the organization to hire different types of people. It will be good for you to talk to other people and find out about these values before your interview date.

5. Get information about the employees who work for the organization you want to apply for a job at and find out the kind of people who do well in the organization. You can do this by using your network of friends to find information about the people who work for the company and you can get information that will help you pass your interview.

6. Find information about the current challenges facing the organization you want to work for from employees. You can have your friends refer you to people who work at the firm and then get this information. It will help you ask and answer interview question efficiently and impress your interviewer.

7. Get some information about your interviewer by searching for the person’s name on websites such as Facebook or Linked In. You can also ask other people if they know about the person. Most interviewers will be impressed if you know something about them.

Having this information with you as you participate in the interview will enable you to portray a good image to your interviewer and increase your chances of getting the job significantly.

Showing you have the relevant job skills

Your entire goal for the phone interview is to show you have the job skills to do the work. If you show you have the job skills, you can get a face-to-face interview.

This is the time to bold, highlight, and underscore that you possess the skill sets the employer is looking for.

Tie your job skills to business results

Most people can talk about their job skills. Very few take the necessary next step and tie the job skill to a business result they have achieved. That negotiation job skill they have? Great, but then show how that negotiation skill helped resolve a business conflict and helped the business reach a goal. Superior experience in finance? Explain how that experience improved the relevant aspects of your previous department and those around you.

Without this tie between job skills and business results, you won’t make as great an impact on the person doing the interview. Connect your job skills plus business results and you have a competitive advantage over almost all others.

Have interview stories that show using job skills to get results

People remember stories. They may or may not remember facts. After the interviewer has done a full afternoon phone interviews and begins to make recommendations for who to move forward to the next interview phase, who will they remember the best? Most likely the one that told the story of job skills producing business results. They will associate the story with you. So make the interview about job skills and the ways you used them to create results through stories or similar creative methods.

Print out your resume

Phone interviews typically go along with the chronology of the resume. What’s on page one gets asked about first, then the next page. If you’ve done several versions of resumes to more accurately show your work for a given position, having the resume you submitted for that job in front of you will not only help you understand the context of the question asked, but also help you see what is coming next. This improves your answers compared to your competition.

You don’t need to be a cheerleader, you must be energetic and lively. Act like you are very interested.  Try getting warmed up before hand. People want to work with people that bring energy to the organization not those that suck the life out of the room.

You weren’t prepared

You weren’t quite sure what the role was or you didn’t know what level the position was. Be sure you gather whatever information you might need to breeze through the interview.  If you are working with a recruiter, they can usually give you the gist of what the client wants and expects. Otherwise you will need to gather information other ways. Reading the job description is always a good start and you can peruse the job descriptions for other jobs with similar titles for additional information

You didn’t know anything about the company

There is no excuse for not looking at the hiring company’s web page, or googling them at a bare minimum.  Knowing not only what the company does, but learning something about their history and culture can always be helpful.

You talked about what you wanted

Most employers don’t really care about what you want or what they can do for you, they want to know what you can do for them.  Plain and simple, your prospective next company wants to know what you bring to the table – Tell them clearly why you are a good value, i.e. you are worth more than they are going to pay you.

You couldn’t discuss your accomplishments

You had better be ready to answer questions about your resume and your background.  Far to often candidates can’t elaborate on their own resume. Remember: the resume is just an outline of yourself, you need to be able to fill in the blanks during an interview.  Read your resume over and over until you know it upside down and backwards.  Be prepared to provide additional details for everything on your resume and in your cover letter.

You didn’t ask any questions

Asking questions about the company, the role, etc. is expected; asking about salary or benefits is not.  Prepare 3-5 questions beforehand.  Be engaged in the process.  It will help you stand out from the crowd.

Due to the generally weak economy in today’s world, many individuals have unexpectedly lost their jobs or are unable to secure their first job posts. In either case, a job applicant needs to be properly prepared for an employment interview, because the competition is fierce. The first thing a job applicant needs to do is secure a job interview, and a well-written resume can help. A job seeker who is lucky enough to be granted an interview needs to look and act professional. The right clothing, along with a stylish pair of glasses, can help a job applicant secure the desired position.

Look of Intelligence

Do employers think potential employees who wear glasses are more qualified? The fact is that glasses do make individuals look more intelligent, and wearing glasses to job interviews can help convince prospective employers that this is the case. It might sound a bit old-fashioned, but most people still regard a person who wears glasses as being a level higher in the intelligence department. An employer wants to hire a person who stands out in a crowd, and is not the typical run-of-the-mill employee, and a nice pair of fashionable glasses can often be extremely persuasive.

Confidence

In addition to giving the appearance of a person who possesses immense amounts of brainpower, glasses can help a person to have more self-confidence, which, in turn, can influence a prospective employer to see confidence exuding from the job applicant. Most employers wish to hire intelligent individuals who have high self-esteem and look professional. Employees who have less than perfect job histories or educational backgrounds can boost the images they project when they wear glasses. However, a pair of glasses should be fashionable, and also needs to match the employee’s better qualities.

Reasonable

Eyeglasses can benefit both men and women who are looking for suitable employment. Even the most mundane job that does not require the highest brain capacity might occasionally require superior intelligence. The business owner or manager is looking for someone who is capable of figuring out solutions to possible problems that might occur in the workplace, and a pair of glasses can serve to enhance the job applicant’s image. Jobs that require long hours of manual labor also occasionally require intelligent reasoning, so someone who looks strong, as well as bright, is more likely to be hired.

Alternatives for Those Who Do Not Need Glasses

Individuals who do not need to wear spectacles can buy frames with clear, nonprescription lenses that look exactly the same as prescription eyeglasses. These glasses can be found in either a neighborhood optician’s office or online. It is best to study photographs of modern, fashionable frames before making a purchase. Additionally, the selected frames should match the person’s face and character traits. Is wearing a pair of glasses a 100 percent guarantee that the job applicant will be hired? No, but the odds are sure to increase. Besides, wearing glasses at a job interview certainly cannot do any harm to the prospective employee, so why not give it a try?

Sara Roberts writes for Just Eyewear, a discount eyeglasses and prescription sunglasses online retailer.

• Address the letter to the person who could hire you by name and title. If you can’t find their name use a functional title like “manager” or “selection committee” and remember to never use “To whom it may concern.” You are writing a simple letter to another person to let them personally know that you have interest in their company.

• Show that you know a little about their company. Do some research and be up to date on their current interests, priorities or problems. You don’t want to waste your time and the recruiters time by not doing any research about the company you are apply for.

• Express your enthusiasm to work for that company. If you have a good idea for a current problem a company might be having, offer to come in and discuss it. That’s one way to get your foot in the door, offer to help them with a current situation they might be having. Be creative, use your imagination to get as much face-time as possible with any company you want to work for; it really does help.

• Keep your tone warm and friendly while being professional. Avoid generic and cliché phrases. Recruiters can go through hundreds of resumes a day and it only takes a couple keywords to have your resume in the trash before it’s cracked open.

• Set yourself apart from the crowd. Put someone really unique about yourself in thecover letter. This gives the recruiter some incentive to look into your resume and will remember you. This may seem obvious, but make sure your unique skill is relevant to the job you are applying to.
• Take the initiative about what will happen next. A lot of times people will say that they will follow up with an e-mail of phone call about setting up an interview. Here is a great way to follow up on a resume.

• Keep it to one page. All cover letters should be less than one page. Short and sweet is the way to go; don’t waste anyone’s time.

• Proofread multiple times. This is overlooked more than you could imagine.

When you write your cover letter let your creative process flow. The person reading it will have an idea of who you are instead of taking a template and inputting a few words sporadically throughout the letter. It might be easier to write your cover letter after you have tweaked your resume so that the whole packet flows together. If you need help with writing your cover letter or resume, feel free to contact us.

What is an informational interview?  This is a question I’ve heard a lot lately as career coaches seem to be suggesting it more and more.

To put it simply, an informational interview is an interview where you as the job seeker ask questions of someone in a job or industry you are looking to pursue.  It is not a direct attempt at landing a job.  It is an informational session for you to acquire information about your potential career options from someone inside the system.

Who does these?

Anybody can request an informational interview.  It may seem logical to assume that newer applicants to the employment world are the most likely to request these interviews.  But there are also many people who are switching careers or looking for career advice that take advantage of this type of interaction.  But, anyone who is currently looking for employment should be going on informational interviews.

What can I expect to get out of it?

Your primary goal, of course, is to get a job.  But you’re not necessarily trying to get a job from the person you are interviewing.  You are trying to acquire information from this person; such as places they know that are hiring, trade organizations you can join to network, and ways you might be able to break into the industry.

You are also making a very valuable connection with the interviewee themselves.  Make a strong impression and in the future if a job opens up or they hear about employment elsewhere, hopefully they will have kept you in mind and will share the information.

What questions do I ask?

You are trying to figure out how to gain employment in the same industry as the interviewee is currently a part of.  So ask them how they got where they are.  Ask them how most employees are discovered.  Ask them about the industry and how you could prepare yourself for a career in it.

You want to ask them questions that give you information that will give you a good idea of what to do next in your job hunt.  But you also want to ask questions that are well though-out and unique so that you make a good impression.

What should I bring?

You want to present yourself as you would in a job interview, dress professionally.  You also want to act very professional while conducting the interview.

You should also bring a copy of your resume in case they ask for it as well as business cards to give to the interviewee.  You should also bring something to take notes on to show that this information is important to you.

Where do I find informational interviews?

Because you’re not directly looking for a job, you can skip the job boards here.  Find companies that you really would like to work for and send the appropriate person in the organization an email.  Follow up with a call a few days after you sent the email to make sure they got it.

Tell them that you would like to sit down with them and ask them about the industry and finding opportunities in it.  Use the phrase informational interview as most professionals are familiar with this term.  Once you get a response, should them your dedication and you never know where it might lead.

Resume Bucket contains heaps of advice on preparing your resume, where and how to look for jobs. This article is meant to assist you in preparing for the interview you will inevitably get.

The first thing to remember when you are called for the interview is to congratulate yourself. Getting the interview is huge! As someone who has hired a few people over the years, I know I’ve never interviewed anyone I didn’t think could do the job. The interview process is partly about confirming the person’s ability to do the job, but mostly it is about finding the right “fit.” It costs the employer a lot of time, money and energy to fill a position. I don’t want to hire the wrong person and have to do the whole interview process all over again.

You are interviewing the company almost as much as the company is interviewing you. I know it seems like you just want some money to provide for yourself or your family, but in reality, deep down you want a job that matches you and fulfills your other needs too. Discover what you love to do and then find someone to pay you to do it.

The interviewer is often just as nervous as you are. He or she is probably not trained at this – they’ve just worked their way up and find themselves responsible for hiring people in their department. They may have a policy guideline, some sample questions they borrowed from a fellow manager ten years earlier or are following a process outlined in a weekend seminar they attended a few years earlier on how to hire the best employees. What they are really thinking is this:

• I’m still annoyed that the employee left at the worst possible time
• I’m stressed because I have to do their work and find their replacement and train them and things won’t settle down for another six months.
• I hope I don’t mess up and hire the wrong person or else my boss will come down on me and I’ll have to do this all over again.
• At least I have a job.

If you approach the interview as a dialogue between two people, you will have a better chance to succeed and show what you can really do for the employer.

The economy will improve. The only thing that doesn’t change is the fact that things always change. Keep trying, ask for feedback on how you can improve, take a class you enjoy or that can help your resume, volunteer – you’ll feel better and fill in gaps in your resume. When you are looking for work, a day feels like a month, but a year from now when you are happy in your new job, that month will only feel like it was a day.

Good luck!

1. Don’t Be An Idiot

The first rule of job hunting while being employed is to be as inconspicuous as possible.  You don’t want your current employer finding out what you are doing, so simply don’t leave any clues.  Here are some examples of clues:

Using office equipment for the job search.

The first thing that comes to mind is the printer and fax machine, but using your work email to send out resumes is also bad news.  And if you suspect that your employers might be keeping tabs on your browsing history, websites like ours should be only looked at off-hours.

Trust no one.

Unless maybe you have co-workers who you’ve known from before this job and you trust with your life, don’t tell anyone what you are up to.  How hard is it to imagine that innocent conversation you had on the walk to Starbucks turned into a Happy Hour confession to your boss.

2. Time Your Interviews Well

Study the patterns of when you usually take time off or are away from the office.  Study the patterns of your co-workers.  Find out what gets a humorous quip and what goes unnoticed.

From my experience, if you can choose the day of the week, go for an end day.  Taking a long weekend by calling in sick on Friday or taking a Monday off because you had a long weekend are common place, and although you could get looked down on for having too much fun, they probably won’t suspect the true nature of your absence.

As for time of day, evening works best.  You can always say you have to pick the kids up from school or someone is flying in from out of state.  A long lunch and the traffic excuse of the late morning work as well, but are slightly more risky.  It is often hard to control how long you’ll be in the interview.

3. Learn To Change In Your Backseat

If Superman can trick everyone into thinking he is a mild-mannered reporter, than you can trick them into thinking that you’re going home early because of a stomach ache. I’m not saying to leave your interview clothes in a phone booth, but you could find a friend that lives close to your work, park your car farther away than usual and hide them in the backseat, or if you are really paranoid get them cleaned at a dry cleaner in the area.

Nothing says that you just had a job interview than dressing drastically different than usual.  Two sets of clothes, learn it.

And if you are female and your hair is a problem, start doing fancy things with your hair in the weeks leading up to the potential interviews.  Subtle self-improvement is a good thing.

4. Avoid Connections

This one is obvious, yet sometimes hard to control.  But you don’t want the person getting your resume to be friends with a superior at your current job.  The first way to avoid this is simply to think if you are aware of any connections.

The second way to avoid this is made possible by LinkedIn.  Look up the company you are applying for on LinkedIn and also their hiring manager or the person you are sending the resume to if you can find them.  Look through their connections (or it should tell you right away) for any similarities with your place of employment.  This can be tough in industries that are very close-knit, so use your best judgement as to how serious those connections actually are.

5. Don’t Slack Off

This should be a general rule regardless if you are planning to leave.  But nothing will sound alarms more than suddenly seeming disinterested in your work.  Granted, you must be disinterested in your work if you are looking for another job, but for both the sake of being discret and keeping a good reputation, try not to show it.

Numbers show that the majority of people change careers five to ten times during their lives. Once the initial excitement wears off most employees tend to burn themselves out and go through what’s called a “Midcareer Crisis.”

“Midlife crisis” may be many things — depression, a reassessment,
dissatisfaction, or unease — but a key contributor can be career
issues.”

Other factors such as location, layoffs, and personal issues influence may also impact this decision. While sometimes it is necessary to ‘reinvent’ yourself.. tread carefully because it’s easy to harm relationships, burn  bridges, kill-off networking opportunities, and emp you down the line with a resume which has no specific industry focus and short employment histories.

If you fall into this category you need to focus on presenting yourself to hiring managers as an asset that can fill the role just as well as your competition, most of whom have had experience in tyour potential field for years. The key is being able to associate your past employment history, skills, and qualifications into your new venture.

Four Tips To Transitioning

1. Identify your accomplishments, skills, and expertise that your new venture will expect you to have. Knowing these traits will be your best resource in transferring into a new industry.

2. Extensively research the ins and outs of any new opportunity. Running into an interview blind will fail nine out of ten times. If you don’t have someone in the space to pull information, the Internet is your next and best resource.
3. Combine the the first and second steps above to identify the vital skills and competence you’ll bring to this next opportunity. Establish yourself as confident and valuable resource.

4. Formulate your resume around this information and be ready to elaborate on it during the interview. You will be grilled on it. This is your chance to prove your worth, and where all the above steps come into play.

The best thing you can do for yourself before heading to an interview is to prepare yourself by going over common questions and organizing predetermined answers. These are questions that the majority of employers will probably ask at some point during the interview. Prepare yourself before hand and you can enter the interview with less anxiety and more confidence. Consider the following list and determine the most effective way to answer in a concise and powerful persona that will leave a fantastic impression when your interview concludes.

Ten Common Interview Questions:

1. Why do you want to work for us?

2. Give us an example of a situation where you faced conflict or difficult communication problems.

3. Where do you see yourself in 3 / 5/ 10 years time?

4. What would your current manager say are your strengths/weaknesses

5. Do you prefer working in a team or on your own?

6. What is the first thing you would change, if you were to start work here?

7. What was the most frustrating experience in your current (or last) job? The most satisfying?.

8. What do you know about this organization?

9. What did you think of your previous supervisor?

10. Why are you looking to leave your current company?

When formulating your replies to the above questions make sure to keep it all positive. Don’t bad mouth your previous employer, or comment on how unhappy you may have been there–remember this is a potential current employer and you don’t want them to conjure up any connotations about how you’ll act if they employ you.

Your sucess relies on how you prepare and approch the task. Take those extra steps and you’ll nail your next interview!