photo credit: Jill Clardy. Building powerful interview stories is like following the plot of a great fiction book. Just make sure your stories aren’t fiction! There are five steps to building an interview story. Let’s take a look. Step One: The story must have importance to the business. Or projects done that changed the business. MORE >>

photo credit: splorp. Phone interviews are usually the first interview done when someone decides, after looking at your resume, that you could qualify for the open job. That person decides you are “worthy&# of an interview from what you have on your resume — your experience, job skills and results. These are my five rules: 1. MORE >>

photo credit: svenwerk. I’ve written a lot on Cube Rules about interview questions. What I’d like to do is go through how to prepare for a face-to-face interview. Here are nine practical ways to prepare for the interview. Use the job description. Usually, the only concrete evidence you have for a job is the job description. The reason? MORE >>

photo credit: ST E PH/ EN _G. The rule of the human condition that everyone wishes were true is this one: follow these three steps and you will be rich beyond belief, happy beyond ecstasy, and deeply rewarded in your work. Tell yourself the reality: you know this is not true, but you wish for it anyway. do too. Not going to happen. It takes work. MORE >>

photo credit: ario_. Let’s face it: when you get a hundred e-mails a day, you can count ninety-nine of them as poorly written. always love the logic that you, the erroneous receiver of someone else’s e-mail, is the person who is at fault for someone else’s error and, oh by the way, you are also responsible for cleaning it up. MORE >>