Welcome to the Blog!

In conjunction with our consulting businesses, we are creating a blog in which we hope to post helpful hints in two areas: dispute resolution and outplacement/job search/transition management and planning. We utilize prove problem-solving techniques and a real world approach to these areas and believe that our methodology helps our clients find faster, less expensive and more practical solutions to the issues that they come to us for help with.

We're going to focus here on case studies from our files and practical hints and suggestions that we hope will help readers resolve problems, whether, personal or business, legal or otherwise, and for those who are in job or career transition mode, we hope that our suggestions will be helpful to you as you pursue your job or career search.

Here's today's tip for jobhunters:

Today's employers can be, and in fact are, very selective about who they interview, so when they select the candidates for face-to-face interviews, they have already reviewed many, perhaps even hundreds, of resumes. So, if you are one of the lucky ones to get the call, you should know that you have passed all the major hurdles and that the employer actually WANTS to hire you! It is no longer a situation where, with full employment, employers were choosing from dozens of semi-qualified candidates. Now, they have many highly qualified candidates, and if you have been selected to interview, you know in advance that you are qualified. So now, it's up to you to show your interest in the position, by being prepared for the interview.

Be prepared; know who you're going to be speaking with, what his or her background is and history with the company. Make sure that you're armed with questions about the position and the company and most importantly, make sure that your questions are genuine and not loaded. Don't turn off the interviewer with negativity! Pretend that you're going to Carnegie Hall--practice, practice, practice!

Feel free to contact Stanley Witkow Associates at StanleyWitkow.com for help building a compelling resume, effective networking and interview training.