Everyone who has ever applied for a job knows how much anxiety attending a job interview can conjure. It takes a lot of preparation, from crafting the perfect resume to choosing your interview attire. Interviews can make or break your chance to become employed. If you don’t impress the recruiter despite having good credentials, you can miss your chance to get a call back, or get ‘put on file’. This is why it’s vital to learn how to market yourself and make an impression with smart and professional answers to interview questions.

Many recruiters ask about your weaknesses
There is one…

As the leading industry in innovation, it comes as no surprise that IT careers are themselves ever changing. As technology continues to advance and become more refined in niche sectors, professionals are bound to try their hand at different positions. Creativity and curiosity are the lifeblood of the industry, so naturally it’s been reported that IT professionals, like software engineers, who are happier at their job have better critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Job fluidity is widely accepted as a part of the industry, with IT topping every other industry in employee turnover at 13.2%, …

I interviewed many people over the past years and had to go over their resumes before each interview. I have seen many terrible resumes written by smart guys. In the best case that those resumes can pass recruiters’ evaluation, they might have a bad first impression on the interviewer.

Put yourself in recruiters and hiring managers’ shoes receiving tons of resumes every day. Your resume should convey as much as possible highlights about you in a short amount of time (5–7 seconds). They usually don’t have time to read every details in the resumes. They might not even have robust…

This is a pretty popular question candidates ask after they get rejected in Amazon (or other tech companies) interviews. First, let’s talk about what happens after an interview.

After each interview at Amazon, there is a debrief meeting in which interviewers, hiring manager, and bar raiser discuss their feedback about a candidate. Sometimes, the meeting takes few minutes or in some cases doesn’t happen at all as many interviewers voted against hiring the candidate. On the other hand, there has been cases that all interviewers were positive but the final result was negative since all interviewers were concerned about a…

Tech companies have long been lauded for their advanced hiring techniques, particularly those of industry leaders. Commonly abbreviated to FAANG, the giants of the tech industry are Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google, along with the well-established Microsoft. These companies are responsible for some of the most cutting edge technologies on the market. Driven by their inherent competitive nature, many are on a perpetual quest to seek out and land up-and-coming talent. To this end, they have developed an exhaustive procedure for evaluating potential hires.

To understand how this process has changed during the pandemic, it’s important to know how…

In 1933, Franklin D Roosevelt popularized the first 100 days in presidential office. He accomplished a vast number of tasks which aimed to solve the issues of that time. He signed multiple bills that led to the betterment of the economy and helped to reshape the role of government in such affairs. His efficiency and competency as a leader shone through within this timeframe and set the standard for others to follow. Today, the world looks on as newly elected President Joe Biden spends his first 100 days in office. In a similar fashion to Franklin D Roosevelt, his inauguration…