Job Hunting tips from an HR perspective

Notes from presentation by Meredith Arnot

at Canada Job ExpoToronto

January 29th 2013

This presentation by Maira Bay de Souza is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License

Before we begin ...

Items in this font are the notes I took from what the presenter said

Items in this font are my own comments

Resume submission tip

Use the same words as the job posting, in order to get your resume through the HR filter.

That might explain why people send so many resumes and don't get any results.

Interview tips

Don't be too early, don't be late. Be there 10 min before the interview.

Ask questions throughout the interview, not just at the end when they ask “do you have any questions?”

Ask questions that will help you understand the company culture, like “why do you like working at this company?”

Good tips!

Disclaimer

The notes presented here are what I understood from what the presenter communicated. They might not be 100% accurate, as I was taking notes and listening to the presentation at the same time.

All the information I am quoting from the presenter is their intellectual property. I am reproducing it here under the fair use policy, for quoting purposes only.