No matter how much you prepare. No matter how good your self-knowledge is, no matter how compelling your value propsition is, you will most like bump into some tough interviewers.

So let’s take a look at the most common and annoying styles and how to handle them.

I am currently volunteering in an after school program and mentoring two eleventh graders who are getting ready to take SATs as well as preparing for college decisions and interviews. Needless to say, it’s a time of uncertainty and pressure for they have to make some big decisions and compete with thousands of others.

Recently, as part of a job search discussion group, an interesting resume question was posed. Should you downplay your resume in these hard times?

At this time of year, everyone talks about their resolutions, or aspirations. I hear people also wishing for things in ways don’t always achieve the feelings they seek.

So many of us find new beginnings exciting. Others find them scary. What possibilities are ahead for you in 2010? What ones will come and what ones will you create? So, how are you going to greet the New Year?

So, no job. Or you are scared to death as a new retiree because you don’t know where next to move. If you are an introvert, the pressure may be more intensified, since the fear of networking can be as frightening as job loss. Well, maybe not quite as scary as having no job, no but scary enough to render some of you ineffective and, perhaps immobile.

Attitude affects behaviors and if you are thinking that you can never be young again and are too old for the job market, take solace from the research that indicates that young people can never be you! Whatever the job market, and the hard times we are going through, your age can work for you.