If you’re hunting for a job, chances are you’re going to be asked to do a preliminary phone interview at some point. “More employers are using this method to help them whittle down their choice of candidates to invite to an in-person interview,” says Marci Alboher, career expert for the Yahoo.com blog Working the New Economy. But it’s not just your job skills they’re interested in learning about. “They also want to get a sense of your personality, communication skills and ability to focus on a task.” Luckily, showing them over the phone is easy, says Alboher. Start by… [more…]
From the daily archives:
Saturday, February 27, 2010
It’s your multivitamin! A recent National Institutes of Health study reveals that the body cells of women who pop one every day are biologically younger than those who skip them. Credit goes to the micronutrients they contain, which help fend off free radical damage and chronic inflammation that age your body faster, says lead study author Honglei Chen, M.D., Ph.D..
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