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Daryl Roberts, Region FIVE Supervisor with Iowa Workforce Development, holds some of the materials available to job seekers recently that include tips on the do’s and don’ts of interviewing for a position.
If you’re out of work, you still have a full-time job. Or, at least, you should, according to Daryl Roberts, Region Five Supervisor for Iowa Workforce Development in Fort Dodge. Roberts’ organization offers classes and counseling designed to help people find work. Above all, people seeking jobs should maintain a state of constant preparedness, Roberts said. ‘‘When you get up in the morning, assume you are going to meet your next boss,’’ he said. ‘‘You should be clean and presentable and have a resume in your back pocket. You never know when that opportunity is going to be sitting right in front of you.’’ Said resume could make the difference between getting an interview or not, said Roberts. Resumes that are too long or show obvious lack of precise detail are all too likely to land in a prospective employer’s circular file, he said. ‘‘Ninety-nine percent of people can sum up their experience in two pages or less,’’ he said.
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