How to Prepare for a Remote Job Interview

How to Prepare for a Remote Job Interview Some job seekers may be under the mistaken impression that having a remote interview is easier that interviewing for a position in person. Nothing could be further from the truth. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, remote interviews are becoming more common as workers are hired to work from home in the millions. Because an individual being interviewed wants to make the best impression during a remote interview, a few tips can help. 1. Prep the Area for Your InterviewSetting up for your interview in a messy room with children’s toys or other personal items around can make you appear unprofessional. In addition, letting an interviewer see the way you live is giving out unnecessary information that does not pertain to the job. When you set up for your interview, look around at what the interviewer will be seeing in the background. Keep your background businesslike, clean and preferably neutral. If your desk will be showing, organize the top neatly and get rid of any clutter.2. Show Some EnthusiasmJust as in a regular interview, an individual who shows no enthusiasm for the company or position will not impress the recruiter. Those who act bored or restless during an interview are perceived as just going through the motions. In other words, employers want employees who are happy to work for them and will do their best at the job. Enthusiasm for the position gets the interviewee closer to getting hired.3. Dress the PartDress appropriately for your interview. The point is to blend in with the culture of the company, but you want to use caution to neither underdress nor overdress. Stay away from clothing with logos and splashy patterns because it is distracting, and the hiring manager want to concentrate on what you have to say and whether you are a good fit for the company and job. Choose your clothing to fit in with the company and look polished for the interview. Although you may be tempted to wear jeans with your dress shirt, jacket and tie, realize that t he entire ensemble can reflect your attitude, so don’t skip on the suit pants or skirt. If the company dress is more casual, go with that but make sure your clothing is in good condition, pressed and presentable. In addition, remember to get that haircut if needed and present yourself with a well-scrubbed and polished look.4. Do Your ResearchIt can be difficult to have a good interview for a company you know little about. Do your research, and learn about the company where you are applying for a job. Whether in a healthcare job, sales, desk job or another type of employment, check out the company background, major news and the person with whom you will be interviewing.5. Keep the Noise Level DownWhile you are being interviewed, keep the noise level in your home down. This may involve asking someone to watch your children at their home for a little while or taking the dog for a walk. Turn off the television and stereo. You don’t want anything that might distract either you or the interviewer from concentrating. Turn off your cell phone or house phone ringer until the interview is over.6. Don’t Show ArroganceThis is a big turn off with recruiters. Talk about what you accomplished for your previous employer, but be cautious about bragging. Mention how your expertise benefitted the company such as talking about how your sales contributed to the company’s earnings, not about how you are the best salesperson in the business.Properly prepping for an interview, whether in person or remotely, is important to make that next step into a job successful. The way in which you find that job is also important. TheJobNetwork can help by doing the job search for you in any field such as sales jobs, medical receptionist jobs and in many other areas. After you enter your qualifications and job interests, sign up with TheJobNetwork, and we search around the clock for jobs that match your description and send you these listings in the form of email alert s.

Clean out of spondulicks!

Clean out of spondulicks! Clean out of spondulicks! Clean out of spondulicks! By Maeve Maddox While looking up something else, I came across the slang word spondulicks, meaning money. It has a U.S. origin, but I dont recall having ever noticed it before. Its in the OED: spondulicks: n. slang. orig. U.S. [Of fanciful formation.]  Money, cash. Also, a piece of money, a coin. 1857 in R. H. Thornton Amer. Gloss. (1912), He lost..All the brass and all the needful, All the spondulix and buttons. Spondulicks may derive from Greek spondylikos, vertebra, which derives from spondylos, a seashell once used as currency. Another spelling is spondulix. The word is still in use among speakers of British English in England, Australia, and elsewhere, but it has pretty much been forgotten in its land of origin. According to Michael Quinion at Worldwidewords, one of its earliest appearances was in a piece about college life in the New York magazine Vanity Fair in 1860, and it may have originated as college slang. The vertebra sense of spondylo may have something to do with the coinage of spondulicks in the sense of money. Blogger Doug Wilson found a reference to spondulics in an 1867 book, A Manual of the Art of Prose Composition for the Use of Colleges and Schools, by John Mitchell Bonnell. Included in a list of provincialisms was: â€Å"Spondulics - coin piled for counting.† Anyone who has ever played with a stack of coins will see its resemblance to the vertebrae in a bending backbone. Its easy to see how a humorous medical student might show off his learning by coming up with the word. spondylo comb. form of Latin spondyl-us, vertebra, occurring in a few modern terms, chiefly Path. in the sense ‘of or pertaining to, connected with, the spine’, as spondylocace, -dynia, -pyosis, -tomy. spondylitis: n. Inflammation of the vertebral column. On the other hand, a coin dealer who has named his business The Elusive Spondulix says the word spondulix entered the American vocabulary in 1800, thanks to an exhibit of African and West Indies Cowry-shell money at the Philadelphia Mint. Whatever its origins, the word is still being used. Here are some examples from the web: Clicks, Bricks, and Spondulicks (title of a summary of proceedings of a conference held in Australia in 2003) So. Is there anyone out there with the spondulicks? (someone trying to raise money) Payday Loans Get You Spondulicks†¦ Online Pharmacies Entrust You To Spend Less Spondulicks On Medication Get yourself another tasty helping, as long as you are in possession of the requisite spondulicks. The Ground Beneath Her Feet (2000), Salman Rushdie,. Listen! You told the nipper that if he came up with two thousand quid youd give him the place. Supposing I come up with the spondulicks first, wont I be entitled to it then? The Dowry: A Novel of Ireland (2007), Walter Keady. Want to improve your English in five minutes a day? Get a subscription and start receiving our writing tips and exercises daily! Keep learning! Browse the Vocabulary category, check our popular posts, or choose a related post below:How to Format a US Business LetterAbstract Nouns from Adjectives25 Favorite Portmanteau Words