http://awomeninherthirties.com/2012/03/20/over-qualified/

I would love to read your comments on this issue?

Guess I need to "dumb" up my resume! What the h*ll did I pay for college for?

Do you have a story to tell? I would love to share it!

Get in touch: [email redacted].

Miss Stefie FINDS A JOB

Katherine Shaye talks PROCRASTINATION

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http://swrightboucher.wordpress.com/2011/07/27/problem-solving-stories/

The way one has handled past challenges speaks to resilience and resourcefulness - 2 qualities that employers value. This is often overlooked in interviews. Learning to highlight the lessons learned and the ongoing impact can help get one noticed -- and can help employers make better hiring decisions.

Judy explained the 401K and health benefits that the company offered, as well as verifying some of the original information we had discussed over the phone (most of which were not my best answers). This time I was ready. With lines that I had gone over twelve times on the ride in, I expanded on my work history and my understanding of the job with absolute confidence. I could tell when I gave a good answer, because Judy would look down at her notes with a little, knowing smile.

After some time, fifteen minutes or so, she stood and left. I would now meet with three team members who had the job I was applying for. At this point I was relaxed – my back, which had been flush against the gray chair
when Judy first entered, was now slouching somewhat as I leaned over the table. The team members, each warm and friendly, proceeded to ask me questions, fervently scribbling my response. With every answer I wildly flailed my arms, barely noticing I was doing it. I’ve always been a very visual speaker.

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It was the end of June, and I was surprisingly giddy that morning; even though I had gotten up at 4:30 am to make the three hour drive to Buffalo. I may have downed two whole bottles of 5hr energy by the time I bounced onto the elevator, so I suppose being giddy explains itself. I spent the whole car ride into town going over potential questions, and my best answers. Then I begged the interview gods that I wouldn’t forget them.

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It’s great advice, and it does make me feel less harried about the whole job thing (which I suppose was his intention). But at the same time I’m afraid he’s too supportive.

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Here's my list: http://patrickfranklin21.wordpress.com/2011/07/18/if-i-could-interview-5-people/

No thanks. I thought we'd moved beyond being the supercompetent secretary behind the throne. Get out of my damn chair.

But maybe that guy who hired the other guy might think twice about basing his judgement of someone on something like their gender rather than their competence!

What kills me about this consultant screwing up this fellow's website is, I told the customer two years ago this would be a problem and in order to fix it would require a little bit more than simply pasting things straight in. He didn't hire me. He hired this other guy. Who then ruined his website and for 48 hours had no idea how to fix it.

Sigh. Some days it's tempting to think everyone's a sexist.

I always have that (the correct invalidly nest html) checked. In fact, when I imported my Livejournal, LJ had a TON of errors in their LJ-generated html. I coulda done better when I was manually typing all of my html in notepad back in the early 90s. I had to go through and make insignificant changes just to have wordpress fix lj's problems. And there are still some really ugly bits of html left in posts I imported from lj.

So far, I've been very happy w/ cutting & pasting from WordPerfect, though I do go through the post after and check it each time, and have occasionally had to make tweaks in the html editor. It's usually odd spacing issues. I also code the html text formatting tags (em, strong, etc.) separately, either using wordpress's visual editor or putting in the tags manually in WordPerfect (and I've not had a problem with that, either).

Basically, checking the post as your creating it (in preview as well as html) and then proofreading it again after it's posted can avoid most problems w/ cutting & pasting from other sources, and other sorts of problems, too -- measure twice, cut once! :)

If you copy and paste text from elsewhere without using either icon 5 or icon 6 in Row 2 of the visual editor, please see here so you know how to do this correctly http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#pasting-text

You can still get WordPerfect?

Also, pasting is going to mess up your blog. I know a guy who had his whole blog ruined by a consultant who pasted in a hundred or so Word documents. And then he had to pay the guy to fix it and it took two days.

It would only have taken me 90 seconds, but that's because I know WP.