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Katharine Hansen

Katharine Hansen

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Katharine Hansen is the creative director and associate publisher of Quintessential Careers; is an educator, author, and blogger who provides content for Quintessential Careers; edits QuintZine, an electronic newsletter for jobseekers; and blogs about storytelling in the job search at A Storied Career.Katharine earned her Ph.D. in organizational behavior from Union Institute & University in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is the author of Dynamic Cover Letters for New Graduates and A Foot in the Door: Networking Your Way into the Hidden Job Market (both published by Ten Speed Press). She is also the author of Top Notch Executive Resumes (Career Press), and with Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D., Dynamic Cover Letters, Write Your Way to a Higher GPA (Ten Speed), and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Study Skills (Alpha).

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Katharine Hansen

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Executive Interview Case Studies

Sometimes, the best way to grasp critical job-search skills is to learn from the experiences of others. The Quintessential Careers...READ MORE

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Don’t Get Stumped by Off-the-Wall Job Interview Questions

by Katharine Hansen Ph.D.Picture yourself in this scene: You're in a job interview. Everything is going better than you imagined...READ MORE

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Tailoring Accomplishments to Self-Evaluations for Performance Reviews and to Status Reports to Your Boss

Performance evaluations are tailor-made for communicating your accomplishments and if you've been brainstorming and tracking successes in the period leading...READ MORE

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