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Pop Quiz: All About Jobhunting

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1.

This is a place for job-seekers to meet and screen a large number of employers

Career Fair
Company Picnic
Passive Job-Search

2.

This is typically a low-end, low-paying job that a displaced job-seeker takes on a temporary basis (often as a last resort).

Telecommuting
Survival Job
Job Shadowing

3.

After every interview, you should send this to each person who interviewed you. Though only a small percentage of job-seekers actually perform this crucial ritual.

Letter of Agreement
Salary History
Thank You Letters

4.

This is a label employers often use on mid-career job-seekers who appear to have one of three flaws: too many years of experience, too much education, too highly paid in current or previous job.

Workaholics
Diversity Job-Seekers
Overqualified

5.

What is the "Hidden Job Market?"

Jobs you have to network and cold call to find out about
Jobs on the black market
Jobs filled by illegal aliens

6.

This label most often plagues new graduates with limited experience, as well as career-changers whose experience is outside the area they now wish to pursue.

Independent Contractor
Underqualified
Employment Gapper

7.

Periods of time between jobs when job-seekers are unemployed, either by choice or circumstances. Employers do not like seeing these on résumés.

Employment Gaps
Home-Based (Work-at-Home) Careers
Quarterlife Crisis

8.

These are the building blocks of effective cover letters and resumes.

Commas
Action Verbs
Adjectives

9.

A person at a higher level within a company or within your profession who counsels you and helps guide your career.

Networker
Moonlighter
Mentor

10.

This should always accompany your resume when you contact a potential employer.

Letter of Agreement
Counter Proposal
Cover Letter