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Whether you fear or crave the chance to speak in public, learn how to organize ideas, analyze an audience and make them sit up and listen. Deliver your speech in style and influence your audience with a clear message, sufficient supportive materials, and appropriate anecdotes. Whether you're cramming for a speech or preparing ahead, these sure-fire methods are certain to win your audience!

Contributors: Dr. Kerry Riley, professor at George Washington University's Department of Education and Dr. Susan Faust, professor at Wake Forest University's Department of Communications.

"The No-Brainer series is clearly up on the most current ways to use their medium to entertain and inform." --Billboard Magazine

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No-Brainers on Interviewing guides you through the interviewing process from preparing for the interview to accepting an offer. This tape includes sections on communicating your message, understanding the interviewer and getting the salary you want.

Stop stressing out over job interviews! Here's a unique, new program that's specifically designed for anyone that has difficulty articulating their job skills in an interview

There's a lot of free advice out there. What's so good about this program?

Rock That Interview is guaranteed to change the way you interview because it's not just good advice - it's a complete interview preparation tool integrating a Video, Workbook and Website login to your Personal Workspace where you store your personal profile and scripts, practice techniques and generate agendas that you print out and take with you to every interview.

There are no gimmicks or theories. It contains practical, proven techniques developed and field-tested with hundreds of candidates over 10 years by a Management Recruiter.

Here's a partial list of what you will learn:
*Completely change the way you think about job interviews: It's not an interview; it's a meeting-and a meeting requires an agenda
*A straightforward, step-by-step approach to preparing for every job interview including research checklists of the 7 things you should know about the Job Description and the 14 things you should know about the Company
*How to read job postings
*How To Articulate: The 3 Basic Ways to Delivery Information and the Marriage Technique
*How to answer the most common interview questions:

-What are your career goals?

-Why do you want to work for our organization?

-Tell me about yourself.

-Talking about money.
*Finally, the most often missed opportunity: How to ask perfect interview questions.

Release Date: 1994-05-01

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Release Date: 1998-09-02, Rating: NR (Not Rated)

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Get a Life! Show #1 Lifer #1: "What do you like to see in a resume?"

Story #1: SPORTSCASTER Richard Provencher was able to turn his love of sports into a full-time job as a sportscaster by volunteering at the local cable TV station and practicing endlessly at home in front of a mirror. He eventually got his big break and has taken advantage of it.

Rant #1: "Selling Yourself"

Lifer #2: "How important are contacts?"

Story #2: BAND MEMBER The band "Soup" -- Chris Skinner, Claude Samson, Steven Hughes & Bob Deveau -- who recently won a YTV Achievement Award, talk about their struggle in the music business.

Rant #2: "Good Impressions"

Story #3: INTERNET ENTREPRENEUR Karen Kostaszek and five other Carleton University Graduates founded Ingenia Corporation in 1992. They began by volunteering, and then convinced Industry Canada to build a computer network among 12 schools in Ottawa. This evolved into School Net, which hopes to see every school linked to the Internet.

Lifer #3: "Why do you think it is important to like yourself?"

Story #4: SOCIAL WORK EXECUTIVE Andrew Tong started volunteering when he was a college student. Now, he's the youngest Director at the largest volunteer center in Canada. He is also the Assistant Acquisition Manager at Greystone Properties.

Rant #3: "What it takes to be good?"

Winner of the Award of Excellence in the Information Programming category from the Alliance for Children and Television

Get a Life! Show #2 Lifer #1: "What are you looking for during a job interview?"

Rant #1: "Confidence"

Story #1: ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIST Marlene Conway's two young children were her inspiration to finding an environmentally-friendly way to recycle dirty diapers. Now her company, Envirolutions, does a great deal of research and development into environmental technology.

Story #2: FILM & TV LOCATION MANAGER Ainslie Wiggs got her start when a friend in the business of movie making got her a job as assistant production coordinator. She worked her way up to being assistant location manager for the television series X Files.

Rant #2: "Appearance"

Lifer #2: "Money vs. Job Satisfaction"

Story #3: ASTRO-PHYSICIST Arron Wong-Sing was born with Cerebral Palsy, but has never been one to view life from the sidelines. He has filmed and produced a video, and is currently going to studying astrophysics in college.

Rant #3: "Resume"

Story #4: RADIO DISC JOCKEY You really have to love your job to get up at 3 AM every morning to do it. Brendan J.S. Wilson has paid his dues and now hosts the high profile morning slot at a major market radio station in Halifax, and loves every minute of it.