Teaching Business Communication and Employment

The top 10 ways to make the worst impression at a job interview, and what to do so you don't make a bad impression and hurt your chances of getting hired.

As your students begin the interview process, chances are good that their initial screening interviews and at least subsequent interview will be conducted over the phone. Employers treat telephone interviews as seriously as in-person interviews, so candidates need to be ready to perform effectively in these important exchanges.

Share these fourteen tips with your students to help them prepare and to ease the stress of getting ready for phone interviews:

Are you in the market for a new job? If so, jump on your search now because the market is heating up. First time job seekers and those looking for a career boost are ripe for success. According to Glassdoor, the U.S. economy is growing, leading to noticeable effects on hiring. Here are some of …

Resumes continue to evolve over time. Don't fall behind or get lost in the mix with these trending tips for 2019. Need a new resume template? Use resume builders like Canva for easy, fresh designs.

"The hottest and latest resume trends this 2019 will surely heighten the chance of your students' getting hired."

People write the strangest things on their resumes, sometimes downright hysterical. Why should only recruiting managers get to laugh at these? The Top 10 are at the bottom. Enjoy

No matter how many times you've proofread your resume, it's important to stay vigilant for at least one of these 20 common mistakes.

Which business communication textbook have the most comprehensive coverage of employment topics? Which textbooks are noted for their leading-edge coverage?

She says you need to immediately stop including: “References available upon request.”

When deciding whether to hire a candidate, interviewers take into account everything from the weather to what the candidate does with their hands.

Most people like to think they are unbiased and capable of making fair, objectives decisions when it comes to judging or assessing others. Unfortunately, that is far from reality.

Decades of research suggests that unconscious or implicit bias is universal, and these attitudes and stereotypes affect decision making in ways that people aren’t aware of. Even people who consciously go out of their way to avoid biased assumptions can be influenced by unconscious biases that have been accumulating since childhood.

Implicit bias has been a longstanding concern in job interviewing and hiring decisions. A classic case that opened many eyes to the problem involved classical musicians auditioning for symphony orchestras.

In the 1970s, women made up only 5 percent of professional symphony musicians. Orchestras gradually moved to blind auditions, where the performer is hidden behind a curtain so the people evaluating them can hear but not see them—meaning they can’t make judgments based on gender, age, appearances, or anything other than how well the musicians play.

Within a decade, the ratio of women had risen to 25 percent.

Most students preparing to enter or reenter the job market have probably heard the advice to develop a personal brand but might not know how to proceed. Here's how.

If you want to make it past the initial test, you need to have some solid qualifications — and the perfect résumé to highlight those qualifications.

Students should prepare to be interviewed by video as they move through the job search process, and these interviews require some special consideration.

Video interviews can be conducted via Skype or similar services, video conferencing systems, or automated interviewing systems in which candidates respond to prerecorded questions.

Most of the advice outlined in Fourteen Tips for Succeeding in Phone Interviews applies to video interviews, and encourage your students to follow these additional tips:

These days, the first set of eyes on your resume may not actually be human eyes. Check out this infographic to see what applicant tracking systems are really looking for.

     "Most job candidates prepare to answer certain questions before their job interview to present themselves in the best possible light.
     "Other candidates seem to give the worst possible answer for a given situation.
     "We asked HR professionals, recruiters, and CEOs to share some of the worst responses they have heard from candidates, from a candidate who said he 'crushed 10 keg stands' to another who admitted to slashing someone's tires."

HireVue claims it uses artificial intelligence to decide who’s best for a job. Outside experts call it 'profoundly disturbing.'"

"Writing a resume is a complicated and often frustrating process. Every detail counts, and there is no shortage of conflicting information on what employers actually want to see, like an objective statement, your college GPA, hard and soft skills, or hobbies."

At least some of these questions will pop up during any job interview, and these are the best ways to answer them.

When deciding whether to hire a candidate, interviewers take into account everything from the weather to what the candidate does with their hands.

Artificial intelligence is altering how individuals search for a job and how organizations recruit and assess a candidate’s skill-set and credentials for open positions. Here are some practical tips candidates must know in order to get through AI-powered screening in their job search.

DeepSense, based in San Francisco and New Delhi, uses artificial intelligence to assess job candidates’ personalities based on their social media accounts. WSJ’s Jason Bellini tested the tool.

AI will change how we apply for positions in the future, but honesty will still be the best policy when it comes to landing a job.