6 Things to Never Say During an Interview
Believe it or not, it only takes one sentence to turn a great interview into a lost employment opportunity. After 10 years of running a recruiting firm, I can tell you that interviewers actively seek out the negative traits in the job seekers whom they meet.
Be aware that the following sentences and phrases turn …
Don’t Let Gotcha! Job Interview Questions Getcha!
A hiring manager for a Fortune 500 company has just posted a mid-level position she needs to fill. Soon, she can expect the job applications to start rolling in with a vengeance. Hundreds, and perhaps even thousands of them, depending upon the position! Her challenge at that point? To reduce, as quickly and as efficiently …
Is the Hiring Process Really a ‘Game’? Yes, it is!
In “Headhunter” Hiring Secrets: The Rules of the Hiring Game Have Changed . . . Forever!, the inaugural book in the “Headhunter” Hiring Secrets series of Career Development & Management publications, I first postulated (in writing) that the hiring process is analogous to a game. A very serious game, of course, but nonetheless still a …
Thinking of Getting a Job?
The title of this article applies both to those who already have jobs and to others who vie for jobs. So, let’s think first about what it takes to hold on to a job versus getting a new one. At least three conditions must be met for holding on to a job: (1) You must …
How You Answer This ‘Warm-up’ Question May Leave You ‘Out-in-the-Cold’
At the beginning of virtually any job interview you will undoubtedly be asked what are commonly referred to as “warm-up” questions. For example, you might be asked, “Tell me why you think you might be the person for this job?” Or perhaps one like this: “Describe for me what you do in your current job.” …
Advanced Interviewing Tactics for the Recent Graduate
As a recent college graduate, if you want to interview at a higher level, you must approach your interactions with hiring managers in a methodical, mature manner. Part of this means understanding persuasion techniques as well as changing your pre-interviewing preparation habits.
Over the course of the next few articles, I’ll discuss some tactics that …
How Long Will My Job Search Take?
I am often asked, “How long will my job search take?”
My answer is almost always, “It depends.”
I work, primarily, with experienced professionals—which is code for those over 50 years of age.
I tell them that a really short job search is three months. It takes almost three months for a company to decide …
How to Be More Persuasive at Work
Little is accomplished alone. To achieve complex goals, we often must rely upon the hard work and cooperation from those around us.
Therefore, our ability to be persuasive will either further our capacity to lead a successful, lucrative career or it will greatly hinder our odds of achieving our full potential.
By learning how to …
What the Interviewer Wants to Know about You
Interviewers have a specific function to perform. They need to go through a selection process that identifies which one of the candidates called in for interviewing is the best one. But what does best mean in this context? What are the criteria involved in making this complex evaluation? After all, people are complex too, and …
4 Tips To Ace Your Next Phone Interview
Phone interviews are becoming more common as companies use that as a way to screen candidates without having to spend the time or money having a face-to-face meeting. Because of that, job candidates have to ace the phone interview if they want to get to the next level of the hiring process.
The phone interview …