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Ever want to get inside the mind of a recruiter or hiring manager during an interview? According to a recent post on U.S. News & World Report, Allison Green writes there are several things interviewers are thinking but won’t tell you.

1. You’re being judged on how you’re dressed and groomed. This should be a given, yes? Green writes, “In most industries, a professional appearance still matters. You don’t need to wear expensive clothes, but showing up in a casual outfit or clothes that don’t fit properly, having unkempt hair, or inappropriately flashy makeup can harm your chances.”

2. You shouldn’t over sell yourself. If you’ve ever tried to buy a car and felt pummeled by an overzealous salesperson or tried to quit your gym membership only to be talked into remaining a member, we hear ya. The good news is you’re aware and most likely ticked off when people are too aggressive so the key point as you’re interviewing is to not be that guy or gal. Considering interviewers are people, too they can spot when a job candidate tries to hard to sell him or herself. Instead of focusing on the aggressive sell, highlight what you can bring to the table and why they should hire you. Keep it simple.

3. Little things count. This point is so important, it must be repeated (all together now) — little things count. We’ve seen hiring managers get turned off when a candidate was rude to a receptionist or in another instance, someone acted weird with a bowl of candy (and be weird, we mean to walk by en route to an interview room and grab three pieces to quickly hurl them into one’s mouth). Newsflash: As a job seeker, your behavior is being evaluated from start to finish, up and down, all around. Yes, interviews and follow ups count like the thank-you note but your soft skills are important, too.

4. Know when to stop talking. In the piece, Green writes, “Your answers to your interviewer’s questions should be direct and to-the-point. Rambling and unnecessary tangents raise doubts about your ability to organize your thoughts and convey needed information quickly.” As you’re self-aware about succinctness of your responses (or in some cases, lack thereof), it’s never to late to pull back the reigns, read his or her body language, and also ask a question. Green also suggests stopping yourself after two minutes of talking and simply asking the interviewer if more examples are necessary.

5. Personality matters. Consider this: If two candidates have resumes that are almost identical, guess who will get the job? Give up? Someone who fits in better with the team. It could be your personality, work style, all of the above but just because you look great on paper doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll land a job offer. Conversely, you may look great on paper but one way to truly pop is to stand out with your soft skills. Green reminds us in the piece, “Remember, it’s not just a question of whether you have the skills to do the job; it’s also a question of fit for this particular position, with this particular boss, in this particular culture, and in this particular company.”

Want to know the so-called secret of getting a new job with challenging work, room for growth and great pay/benefits? According to a piece in ForbesWoman, there are seven habits of highly effective job seekers.

1. Stay future-focused. Margie Worell writes in the piece, “It’s easy to get stuck in the past and what shoulda-woulda-coulda happened, but didn’t.” Of course, this behavior is counter-productive and will create negativity, not to mention self-pity. Her advice? “Focus on the future, and on what you need to do to set yourself up as well as possible on the job front,in how you are budgeting your money, and in your relationship with those who can help you find a new job. What you focus on expands, so focus on what you want, not on what you don’t.”

2. Don’t let your job status define you. This one may be hard to accept at first. After all, one of the first things we ask each other when meeting for the first time is what you do for a living. When you really stop to think abou tit though, you are not a job. You’re a person! And if you look at job loss as a personal setback, it could take longer to bounce back than if you view a layoff as a sign of the recession and opportunity to look for a new job that was better than your last one anyway.

3. Prioritize self-care. This is a big one as Worell points out, “When you’ve lost your job it is all too easy plant yourself on the couch, remote in one hand, beer or bag of chips in the other, and wallow in self-pity. Many do! But mental and emotional resilience requires physical resilience. So be intentional about taking care of YOU and doing whatever it takes to feel strong and fit.”

4. Surround yourself with positive people. Ever spend time with someone who’s completely a downer? Chances are, in a matter of moments you’ll start thinking negative thoughts, too. It’s key to spend time with people who lift you up, not drag you down. Worell advises, “Be intentional about who you hang out with and don’t get sucked into the vortex of those who want a marathon pity party. It wastes precious time and energy far better spent getting back into the workforce.” In addition to positive people, you can read positive books and inspirational quotes, watch inspirational movies, and write in a journal.

5. Tap into your network. Asking for help may be a stumbling block for some people but what better time to tap into your network when you’re actually seeking a job! Considering plenty of jobs never make it to job boards since they’re filled through word-of-mouth, it’s time to get on that train. Meet with contacts, spread the word, ask who they know but better yet, inform them of what you’re looking for. The more specific you are, the easier it will be for them to help you.

6. Treat finding a job as your job. “Create structure in your day. Sure you have extra time on your hands than you had before, but you will be amazed at how little you can do in a day if you aren’t intentional about what you want to get done,” Worell writes in the piece. “Create a job search plan with goals and small manageable steps. Then prioritize, structure your day and treat finding a job like a job.”

7. Be kind. Sure, the job search may seem daunting at first and frustrating, but it’s also uplifting when you make progress and get results. In addition to self-care, volunteering and being kind in general not only helps others, it helps ourselves, too! “When we give our time to help others, it helps us stop dwelling on our own problems, and makes us realize how much we have to be thankful for….However you look at it, there’s no better mood booster than making a difference for someone else, even when you wish your own life were different than it is.”

Another day, another layoff announcement. Or so it seems.

Detroit Free Press is making cuts and according to Paul Anger, the editor and publisher, they “won’t be tiny.” This is according to three reporters and an editor who attended a meeting yesterday (via Motor City Muckraker).

Gannett Company owns the newspaper and due to a decrease in revenue, its other newspapers have also cut head count. Right now the specific number of reporters and photographers getting the pink slip hasn’t been announced.

In addition, according to Motor City Muckraker, Jeff Taylor, an editor and Pulitzer Prize winner, is leaving the paper in order to run The Indianapolis Star.

This post is a shout out to summer interns who are striving to make a mark in the world one internship at a time.

According to a piece in The New York Post, an intern expresses concern he’s going to be given menial tasks. Wanting to know how he can approach his employer to ask for more work, he wonders how to communicate this message without sounding like he’s whining?

“You can’t,” Greg Giangrande, executive vice-president and chief human resources officer at Time, Inc., writes in the piece. “It seems to be in your DNA, you youngsters — all you little Zuckerbergs think you should be given VC funding to reinvent the Internet before you’ve paid any dues. Which is great if you’ve got that kind of unique vision, ambition and intelligence.”

Essentially, Giangrande says interns need to start making copies just like we all did at some point in our careers. Yes, this means making coffee runs, too. He points out in the piece that attitude is everything. “If you want more responsibility, the way you’ll get it is to be masterful at what you’re told to do and do it with a great attitude.”

Who would have thought that exercising not only reduces your waistline but increases your paycheck?

Well, according to a new study published in the Journal of Labor Research, regular exercise is linked to higher salaries.

Employees who exercise regularly earn nine percent more than their colleagues who don’t get their groove on. Although this study reveals a stronger link between exercise and earning than studies in the past, it’s sometimes difficult to prove because exercise regularly may be linked to discipline which may result in working more diligently, hence a bigger pay check.

Regular exercise in this study is defined as working out at least three hours each week. As pointed out by TIME, the average hourly wage is $23.41 and the time employees spend at the gym is valued at $70.23. As for the extra pay the buff employee receives? It’s $84.28 which is equivalent to about 20 percent more than the value of time spent at the gym.

If the job says “eight years of experience” and you only have six, should you apply?

Totally. Some hiring managers write job requirements like a wishlist, anyway.

But here’s one tip from Resumewriting.com that might boost your chances: wait to apply.

“If you’re unqualified for the job, wait a while before applying, and gamble that as the hiring manager grows desperate to fill the position, they’ll be willing to take a gamble on you.”

That way, you’re not competing with the guys and girls who look better than you on paper. You’re competing with the people who were pulled in for interviews and then screwed up epically. Your six years of experience are suddenly starting to look pretty good.

We like the logic of this. Sure, if you wait, the position might be filled before you apply, but you’d probably have been passed over anyway unless you had an in of some sort.

It should go without saying that this tactic won’t work if you’re forced to fill out one of those ATS forms that automatically screens you out based on numbers. In those cases, you might as well apply right away or not at all, because the computers have no sense of relative worth. Boo computers.

If you’ve built up a strong barrier when call a company’s main number and can’t get through, thinking, “It’s not me, it’s them,” guess what? It’s really you.

According to a recent post on ERE, there are several reasons why gatekeepers are rejecting you. As for the good news, if you fall into one or more of the categories below, it’s never too late to tweak a few things so they can start accepting you.

1. You’re not prepared and haven’t done your homework. This is a big one; if you’re cold calling a company to get in the door and don’t know who you want to speak with, that raises a red flag. In another instance, maybe you’re not professional about it. Sure, you may be professional almost all of the time but if you’re not professional on the phone while job hunting, what’s the point? Saying, “Hey, what’s goin’ on today? I need to connect with an editor” will not leave a good impression.

2. You keep talking. When you get the answer you need, simply say, “Thank you.” According to the piece, if you don’t get the number you need but the receptionist isn’t exactly receptive, know when to call it a day. If a receptionist can’t provide you with the format of an e-mail address, stop pressing. Your best plan of action? Be nice and perceptive.

3. You don’t understand her phone language. As pointed out in the post, if someone’s receptive on the other end of the phone, he or she will quickly pick up your own tone and attitude. In turn, you need to do the same on your end of the phone. Adjust yourself accordingly and most importantly, pay attention.

Everything has a password — your gmail account, Facebook profile and oh yes, your LinkedIn account. Just last week LinkedIn had a major security breach that’s a serious matter.

On Saturday, the social networking site for careers blogged about an update to last week’s situation. Vicente Silveira wrote:

By now, many of you have read recent headlines reporting that 6.5 million LinkedIn hashed passwords were stolen and published on an unauthorized website. We take this criminal activity very seriously so we are working closely with the FBI as they aggressively pursue the perpetrators of this crime. As you may have heard, there have been reports of other websites that have suffered similar thefts. We want to be as transparent as possible while at the same time preserving the security of our members without jeopardizing the ongoing investigation. In this post, we want to address questions we’ve been receiving and share what we’ve learned so far about the incident, how we’ve responded, and what we’re doing to protect our members going forward.

First, it’s important to know that compromised passwords were not published with corresponding email logins. At the time they were initially published, the vast majority of those passwords remained hashed, i.e. encoded, but unfortunately a subset of the passwords was decoded. Again, we are not aware of any member information being published at any time in connection with the list of stolen passwords. The only information published was the passwords themselves.

Here are the most common questions we are being asked by our members:

1. Am I at risk of having my account breached?
Thus far, we have no reports of member accounts being breached as a result of the stolen passwords. Based on our investigation, all member passwords that we believe to be at risk have been disabled.

2. News of the theft broke on Wednesday. Why didn’t I immediately receive notification that my password was disabled?
As soon as we learned of the theft, we launched an investigation to confirm that the passwords were LinkedIn member passwords. Once confirmed, we immediately began to address the risk to our members, prioritized as follows:

Based on our investigation, those members whom we believed were at risk, and whose decoded passwords already had been published, had their passwords quickly disabled and were sent an email by the Customer Service team.

By the end of Thursday, all passwords on the published list that we believed created risk for our members, based on our investigation, had been disabled. This is true, regardless of whether or not the passwords were decoded. After we disabled the passwords, we contacted members with instructions on how to reset their passwords.

3. What is LinkedIn doing to protect its members?
We have built a world-class security team here at LinkedIn including experts such asGanesh Krishnan, formerly vice president and chief information security officer at Yahoo!, who joined us in 2010. This team reports directly to LinkedIn’s senior vice president of operations, David Henke.

Under this team’s leadership, one of our major initiatives was the transition from a password database system that hashed passwords, i.e. provided one layer of encoding, to a system that both hashed and salted the passwords, i.e. provided an extra layer of protection that is a widely recognized best practice within the industry. That transition was completed prior to news of the password theft breaking on Wednesday. We continue to execute on our security roadmap, and we’ll be releasing additional enhancements to better protect our members.

4. My password has not been disabled, what should I do now?
If your password has not been disabled, based on our investigation, we do not believe your account is at risk.

However, it is good practice to change your passwords on any website you log into every few months. For that reason, we have provided information to all of our members via theLinkedIn Blog, as well as a banner on our homepage instructing members on how to change their passwords.

Once again, we truly apologize for any inconvenience this has caused you, our members.

Another day, another report about turmoil at a magazine.

According to the New York Post’s Media Ink column, Manhattan magazine hasn’t had an editor-in-chief for about a month and now it doesn’t have a publisher or associate publisher either.

As pointed out in the piece, six people were laid off last week including publisher Leslie Wolfson and associate publisher David Baer. In fact, Matthew Carroll currently heads up national ad sales and will take on responsibilities as publisher.

As for the editor-in-chief post, it’s been vacant for a few weeks since James Heidenry resigned to take the helm of Star. Sources indicate Modern Luxury Media is close to filling the position.