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By Jay Brill, ABC Training Center

Our second installment of our Job Tips series looks at an effective way to fill out a job application quickly AND accurately, therefore getting a job offer sooner.  Here at ABC Training Center, our graduates often report that they are completing interview applications only to find out that someone who has already seen the interviewer has already gotten the job.

How do you try to be the first interviewed?  The answer is by completing the employment application accurately and thoroughly before anyone else does.  If you are the first one into the office, you have a good chance of getting the job.

Here is how you do it:

1. Get some 3×5 blank cards
2. At home, write down all of the important information you may be required to provide on a job application.
   • Name of the schools you went to and the dates
   • Social Security number
   • References with names and addresses
   • Any certificates or licenses that you hold
   • Former addresses, current phone number, etc.

After you are given the employment application to complete, whip out your cards, copy the information, be ready to begin the interview.

Good luck.

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By Jay Brill, ABC Training Center

Here at ABC Training Center, we take pride in having helped thousands of New Yorkers obtain jobs in the lucrative medical career field.  And a big part of what we do continues after a student completes his or her studies.  For example we recently launched our interactive job board (http://abctrainingcenter.net/job-placement/) which allows ABC graduates to post their resumes online.  This lets our job placement office match up those candidates with current job openings.  Another idea that we had was to start using our blog as a place to share job hunting tips, and to do it on a monthly basis.  So we kick off our monthly Job Tip series with this bit of advice that was sent to us by a recent grad:

“The best tip I ever received from the ABC Placement Office was about visiting the place of employment early in the morning before the time the interview was scheduled.

I made sure I was at the Nursing Home at 7:30 for a 9AM interview.  I went directly to the cafeteria and sat down with my cup of coffee and asked the C.N.A’s,( they wear  badges), to sit down with me and to please answer a few questions before I was to be interviewed for a  C.N.A. job.  Almost all of them were receptive and wanted to help me out.

I learned that the Nursing Director was especially interested in fire protection.  I was able to use the time to organize my thoughts about what I learned in class concerning R-A-C-E and had time to review my textbook, which I brought to the interview in case I wanted to show the interviewer what I covered in class.

When I was interviewed and asked about fire and fire protection and the treatment and procedures in working with residents under fire conditions, I was ready to “spin my tale”.  I impressed the Nursing Director and got the job.   Thanks, ABC.”

You’re welcome.

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