My Resume is Too Long! What Can I Do? Everyone knows the cardinal rule of resumes: keep it to one page. Even recent grads with little or no professional experience can find this to be a challenge. Hopefully, there’s a lot you want to add to show what...
Interview FAQ If you ask most people, they’re usually able to guess what the typical interview questions are. However, if you ask a group of people how they would answer these questions, the answers may vary. So, what are the right answers to such...
“So, Tell Me About Yourself” “So, tell me about yourself.” The classic interview question. There seem to be so many things you could say, but what are the things that will give you an edge in that interview? Perhaps even more critical, what...
Interview Insights: When It Gets Weird Interviews are nerve-wracking for us all. It’s hard to know where you stand sometimes, and whether or not you made a good impression. However, sometimes it’s clear that you’re not making a good impression. You...
How to Market Transferable Skills At Contemporaries, we know that transferable skills are how candidates can move from one job to the next, especially if the new job isn’t exactly aligned with the previous one. However, it’s not enough to simply have the...
Tough Interview Questions: How to Talk About Past Mistakes It shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone that any interview isn’t going to be filled with easy questions. Any interviewer is going to ask you a tough question or two. These questions are challenging...
