{"id":1072,"date":"2010-08-14T21:59:50","date_gmt":"2010-08-15T04:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/?p=1072"},"modified":"2010-08-14T22:29:19","modified_gmt":"2010-08-15T05:29:19","slug":"resume-and-interview-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/2010\/08\/14\/resume-and-interview-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Resume and Interview Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently had an opportunity to interview for a job opening at my company.  From my experience with the interview process, from both sides of the table, I have a few non-technical tips that might be helpful for someone looking for a new challenging position where they will leverage their skills and such and such years of experience in x, y, and z programming languages.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Proof read your resume and fix obvious typos, you can&#8217;t say you detailed oriented if you have basic spelling errors.<\/li>\n<li>I would leave out MS Access 2000 out of technical skills. It&#8217;s also not necessary to list HTML, DHTML, and HTML5.<\/li>\n<li>Ensure your cover letter or email is in one font, it shouldn&#8217;t look like you cut and pasted from somewhere else. <\/li>\n<li>The minimum research a candidate needs to do is look up the company website himself prior to interviewing. <\/li>\n<li>At a minimum candidate should be able to figure out our URL by a) clicking the link on job description b) from my email. <\/li>\n<li>Use a good phone line for a phone interview.<\/li>\n<li>Make sure the interviewer gets the feeling that you want to work there, not only that you have the skills to work there.\u00c2\u00a0 If you don&#8217;t got the skills show enthusiasm, their is always a job for the great candidate, even if they have to rewrite the job description.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t name your resume anything but you name, and maybe the word resume\u00c2\u00a0 on it.\u00c2\u00a0 Don&#8217;t put a date geolocation or airport codes, etc.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently had an opportunity to interview for a job opening at my company. From my experience with the interview process, from both sides of the table, I have a few non-technical tips that might be helpful for someone looking for a new challenging position where they will leverage their skills and such and such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,3],"tags":[182,170,180,183,186,181,184,185,75],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p902K-hi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1133,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions\/1133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}