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In this article published by USA Today College, Dr. Susan Davis-Ali and Patrick O’Brien debate the question, Great Career Success Debate: How do I handle an interview question I don’t know how to answer?

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Susan’s take:

Fake it till you make it. In other words, give it your best shot.

Interviewers are drawn to people with confidence, so demonstrate as much confidence as you can even if you’re not feeling confident on the inside about your answer.

Sometimes an interviewer will ask you a question that he’s pretty sure you don’t know the answer to just to see how you’ll think on your feet. He wants to see if he can make you sweat and squirm. Don’t do either. Make a split-second decision on how you want to answer the question, then go for it boldly.

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StarkJobs.com will host a Spring job fair for local job seekers. The event will be held at The University Center at the Kent State Stark Campus Wednesday, April 17 from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Representatives from over thirty companies will be on hand to promote their local job opportunities in Engineering, Manufacturing, Education, Customer Service, Automotive, Human Resources and more. College students will also find internship opportunities.

The job fair is a free for job seekers to attend.  Professional interview attire is expected.

To find out who is hiring at the Spring Job Fair, visit www.StarkJobs.com

StarkJobs.com Spring Job Fair

Wednesday, April 17, 2013
11:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M.
The University Center at Kent State Stark
6000 Frank Avenue NW, North Canton

Free Admission and Parking

About StarkJobs.com

StarkJobs.com is the Jobs and Careers site for Canton, Ohio. A local company, StarkJobs.com connects local employers and job seekers through online services and job fairs. For more information, visit our website at www.StarkJobs.com.

In this article from The New York Times, Catherine Rampell writes, With Positions to Fill, Employers Wait for Perfection.

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American employers have a variety of job vacancies, piles of cash and countless well-qualified candidates. But despite a slowly improving economy, many companies remain reluctant to actually hire, stringing job applicants along for weeks or months before they make a decision.

If they ever do.

The number of job openings has increased to levels not seen since the height of the financial crisis, but vacancies are staying unfilled much longer than they used to — an average of 23 business days today compared to a low of 15 in mid-2009, according to a new measure of Labor Department data by the economists Steven J. Davis, Jason Faberman and John Haltiwanger.

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In this article from The Daily Muse, Jenny Foss writes, Unemployed? The Right (and Wrong) Way to Brand Yourself.

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I recently came in contact with a former technology executive turned job seeker. He was navigating a lengthy, frustrating job hunt, and not surprisingly, he was mad, depressed, and growing somewhat panicked.

I knew this about him before we’d even talked, because he’d been all over a couple of the LinkedIn Groups I follow, lambasting the world for not realizing how amazing he is.

But interestingly, when I actually talked to him—for as loud as he was coming across via social media—he didn’t seem at all confident in what he had to offer. He wasn’t clear on his target market. And he certainly wasn’t going out of his way to earn favor with the influential technology players in his city.

Instead, the unemployed job seeker was branding himself, all over the Internet, as a difficult, indignant guy who hated recruiters and hiring managers.

That’d be a prime example of how not to brand yourself when you’re unemployed.

So what does the other end of the spectrum look like? As terrifying as it may be when you’re out of work, this is no time to run for the hills or come undone. Instead, consider these key strategies to help you brand yourself well.

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In this article from The Daily Muse, Anne Niederkorn describes, Getting Back Together: Interviewing at a Company You Used to Work For.

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Over time, your career path can take some pretty unexpected twists and turns. Like—when you suddenly find yourself trying to rejoin a company or team you once left behind.

If you’re lucky, you were approached by your old boss or co-workers—and they really want you back. But maybe you realized that you made a mistake by leaving in the first place; or, after spending time elsewhere for a few years, you see a great new opportunity available. No matter what the reason, though, that first step back to reconnecting with your former company is one that needs to be handled carefully.

So, how do you make the initial connection and interview a little less awkward and a lot more productive? In order to get some useful tips, I talked to a few professionals who were once in your very same shoes. And while their “return stories” were all a little different, their suggestions hit on some similar themes.

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Hiring continues in Northeast Ohio as employers prepare for the StarkJobs.com Spring Job Fair. Over thirty employers will flock to the University Center at Kent State Stark on April 17, hoping to fill their job openings.

“Job seekers will be pleasantly surprised by the variety of local job opportunities,” says Stacey Richardson, Sales Coordinator for StarkJobs.com.

The Spring Job Fair includes full-time and part-time job opportunities around Stark County.

Job fairs increase in popularity

Now, more than ever, employers attend job fairs to get an impression of the local candidate pool.

“Job fairs allow candidates to break away from the competition,” says Richardson. “ Candidates the opportunity to meet the person who is in charge of hiring. A good conversation at the job fair will make an employer want to follow up with you.”

How else can a job seeker get an edge over the competition? Richardson says professional dress and pre-event research will leave a great impression with employers. “Job Fairs are considered an informational interview. Employers expect a professional presentation from job seekers.”

About StarkJobs.com

Locally owned by CareerMarketplace, Inc., StarkJobs.com is an online job board serving Stark County. The local job board enters its seventh year of hosting job fair events for Stark County.

To learn more about the Spring Job Fair, visit http://jobfairs.careermarketplace.com. Employers can purchase a booth by calling StarkJobs.com at (330) 454-5627.

StarkJobs.com Spring Job Fair
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
11:00 A.M. to 3:00 PM
The University Center at Kent State Stark
Free Admission & Parking

In this article from Mashable, Chelsea Gladden lists, 4 Tips to Make Your Resume Stand Out.

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There it is: a stack of 150 resumes, received in the first hour of posting a job, piled up in the hiring manager’s email inbox. How will you stand out? These four tips for creating an effective, well-organized resume, should help you stay at the top of the pile and in the top of the hiring manager’s mind.

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In this article from U.S. News and World Reports On Careers, Alison Green lists, 5 Interview Questions You Should Always Prepare to Answer.

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While you can never predict with certainty exactly what questions you’ll be asked in a job interview, some questions get asked so frequently that you’d be foolish not to prepare answers for them in advance. Here are five of the questions that you’ll most likely be asked.

(And even if these don’t come up, you’ll be better prepared by having rehearsed your answers to them, because you can easily weave them into the conversation to engage and impress your interviewer.)

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In this article from Lifehacker, Alan Henry explains how, FaceWash Makes Sure Your Facebook Profile is Clean and Interview-Ready.

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If the prospect of going back over years of Facebook posts to determine whether some of them should be hidden or photos untagged is daunting, webapp FaceWash can help. The service scans your posts, timeline, and tagged photos to make sure nothing incriminating is going on, and warns you if it finds anything.

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In this article from Lifehacker, Thorin Klosowski advises job seekers to Include Personal Projects on Resumes When You’re Just Starting Out.

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Getting a job when you’re just starting in your field can be difficult because your resume is essentially empty. That said, creativity blog 99U suggests that those personal projects you undertake are a great way to pad out your resume and showcase your potential.

Most people don’t walk out of a college with a lot of relevant work experience, but chances are you have plenty of experience in the field you’re looking to get into. The trick is to embrace that experience, even if you didn’t actually get paid for it:

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