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Psychology Today article, Reading Your Hiring Manager: How Much Follow-Up Makes Sense?, Lynn Taylor shows you how to fine-tune your follow-up strategy to suite a specific employer.

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Sometimes acing a job interview is like playing poker – you have to know how much to reveal, how much to conceal, and when to call for all cards on the table. If you play them correctly, then you might win the game. But how can you play your cards right when you’re sitting across from an interviewer with the world’s best poker face?

Even before you leave the interview, you can tactfully ask for feedback, as long as you are subtle and the interviewer has a somewhat open style. For example, if the hiring manager is conversational, before leaving, it might be appropriate to say: “This position sounds very exciting to me, and feels like a position I could contribute a lot to. May I ask if you have any initial thoughts on my suitability for the job?” You might also ask where the interview process stands: “Do you anticipate filling this job in the near future – or feel at all comfortable letting me know where you are in your hiring process?”

Watch for verbal as well as non-verbal (body language) cues before getting too inquisitive, or you could seem too aggressive. This is where your good interpersonal skills will come in handy.

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In this video for The Wall Street Journal’s Marketwatch, John Letzing and Stacey Delo discuss, Google on Hiring Spree as Yahoo Pushes for Profits

Could there be a positive hiring trend in 2011? In her article for The New York Times, A Sign of Hope for More Hiring, Phyllis Korkki reports an increase in job listings to online job boards including Simply Hired and Indeed.

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WILL businesses ever start hiring again? The numbers from last month — with unemployment at a painful 9.4 percent — didn’t seem to offer much hope.

But often, before hiring occurs, a job is posted on a Web site of some sort. If we look at job-posting numbers — a more recent snapshot of employers’ needs than the hiring data — the picture is more encouraging across a range of industries.

At Simply Hired, a job search engine, postings rose more than 50 percent last year over 2009, and they increased almost 70 percent in December 2010 over December 2009.

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Great news for veterans. LiveCareer News reports, Ashford University Helps Veterans Earn Degrees. The University has teamed up with Cox Communications to provide scholarships to veterans seeking higher education.

Read on to learn more about The Homefront Heros Scholarship and how it helps our veterans obtain a college education.

In Wall Street Journal Education article, B-Schools Give Firms Say Amid Tough Job Market, Diana Middleton reports, “Some business schools are working harder to incorporate employers’ wishes into their curriculum, as the job market for M.B.A. graduates remains tough”.

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Business schools for years have sought to prepare students for real-world challenges. Now, amid an ultracompetitive job market, some are responding more aggressively to feedback from recruiters about graduates’ shortcomings and adjusting their courses accordingly.

Nicole Hall, president of the M.B.A. Career Services Council, an industry group for b-schools’ career-services associates, says schools have been more proactive in maintaining and improving relationships with recruiters by inviting top companies to high-profile campus events and having executives mingle with business schools’ top administrators. “The downturn gave a lot of [curriculum] changes a sense of urgency,” she says.

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In this video from The Wall Street Journal’s Market Watch, Health-Care Columnist Kristen Gerencher has helpful tips on how to land a job in Health Care.

Tips to Find a Health-Care Job

U.S. News and World Report On Careers article, The 10 Most Common Job Interview Questions, Alison Green helps you to prepare for your next interview. In today’s competitive job market, it’s important to anticipate what an employer will ask you during the interview process.

Green lists common interview questions and gives you advice on how to become comfortable in your answers. Read Full Article

Common Interview Questions from Green’s article:

• What do you know about our company so far?
• Tell me your strengths?
• Tell me about a time when…
• What has been your biggest professional achievement?

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LiveCareer News reports, More Culinary Opportunities Appearing in Health Care Field.

According to the article, “As more Baby Boomers head into retirement, the demand for individuals in health care food services is continuing to grow”. It is also reported that culinary schools will include courses to learn how to create menus for the health care industry.

Read on to learn how you can contribute to the health care industry through Culinary Arts.

In her article for Forbes.com, Susan Adams writes Should You Go Back to School? Adams helps readers evaluate their goals, decide on a program, how to pay for tuition and more.

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Roy Cohen, a New York career coach and the author of The Wall Street Professional’s Survival Guide, had an extremely frustrated client. She was a classically trained musician who had decided to go to business school. She had won admission to Columbia and put her nose to the grindstone for two years, working as a Broadway pit musician by night, studying and attending classes by day. Though highly accomplished in her musical career, she didn’t end up at the top of her class at Columbia, she was too distracted to network aggressively and she failed to land any paid summer internships. Her business job prospects: zip.

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In this video for Dow Jones, T. Rowe Price Chief Economist Alan Levenson gives his unemployment outlook for 2011 and predicts areas of potential job growth for the U.S. economy.

Dow Jones Video: Job Outlook for 2011