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Score! You got the interview! Now what?   Now it’s time to prepare. Don’t expect to walk into an interview without preparing beforehand. You may think you’ve got the job in the bag, but a little bit of preparation before the interview can make a huge difference during the interview. What do you need to do in order to rock your interview? Here are ten tips that will help launch you to the top of their list. 1. Research the company beforehand Go into the interview knowing enough about the company so the interviewers don’t need to explain everything to you. Do your research beforehand and you can use the information you learned to your advantage in the interview. You can offer up advice or things you would be able to bring to the company that would improve their business (and make them more money). Your suggestion(s) could be the key to landing you the job! 2. Have an answer to fall back on Interviewers have a habit of asking hard or tricky questions. They use the...

Are you a patient person? I can tell you right off the bat, I’m not. I like to have things done as soon as possible, but if life has taught me anything, it’s that things never happen when I want them to. I’ve had to learn the hard way that things take time. The number one thing that takes patience is finding the right job. Finding a new job certainly doesn’t happen overnight. It takes patience. Job-searching is going to take up a lot of your time. No doubt about it. Searching for a job can be an emotionally draining and physically exhausting process. Perhaps you come home at the end of the day feeling nothing but discouragement because employers just can’t seem to see the potential you have for a job. You feel ready to give up because you feel like you’ll never find the right job. Whether you’ve been searching for only one day or a whole year and you’ve come up empty, you have to remember: it takes time. Trying to find the right job is like having a full time job. You’v...