job interviews

February appears to have been a good month for job seekers. The private sector added 192,000 jobs last month, with all sectors adding workers, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. One area that has been steadily adding jobs and will continue to do so through 2011 is the temporary staffing...

Buoyed by good economic news, apparently more of us are dusting off our interview outfits and re-entering the world of active job seekers. Beyond the initial panic over "Are black pencil skirts still in?" and "Do I need a chronological or functional resume?" what else should a job seeker be...

Clothes to Free is a weekly fashion-on-a-budget column by Money College blogger Alysse Dalessandro. Send Alysse column tips at MoneyCollege@walletpop.com. A Director of Development for a major non-profit health agency in Detroit told me the following dressing for an interview cautionary tale. A May...

If you're among the 6.3 million long-term unemployed Americans, you've probably been through a fair share of job interviews and know how difficult it can be to prepare for one. But looking at it from the other side of the table, what are the worst types of habits that job interviewees can have?...

Eating breakfast before facing the day is important, numerous research has found, making the stories of hungry job interviewees a perfect example of why fueling up is important. Golden Grahams cereal -- which I'd normally associate as a breakfast cereal for children, but is apparently popular with...