Job Interview Feedback – How to Ask
Getting job interview feedback is critical to enhancing your interviewing skills and increasing your chances in getting a great job. We all have to do many interviews before succeeding in getting an offer. Not being called back for a second or third round is part of the job search process, but it doesn’t have to [...]
Good Management – How to Recognize it During Job Search?
How to recognize whether a company has good management during job search? What a great question from a reader and a very relevant one to ask for any job seekers. Working for good management is essential to your job success and happiness at work. It is however hard to decipher whether a company has good [...]
Should I Interview While Pregnant?
Should I interview while pregnant? The answer is Yes, absolutely. I am learning this first hand as I am 6 months pregnant with my second child and currently in between consulting contracts. You may say, no one will hire me while I am pregnant, so why bother. I had the same perspective at [...]
Best Questions for a Job Seeker to Ask in an Interview
An job interview is a two-way street. You are there to demonstrate your qualifications, but you are also there to get more information. So always be prepared to ask some questions in an interview, if time permits. Most interviews are structured so that you can ask questions in the last 5 or 10 minutes. Here [...]
Don’t Make this Fatal Mistake in Interviews
I had lunch with a Deloitte alumni friend recently. He is now a VP of Retail Sales at a major financial institution. Since he knew I had a passion for career coaching, he told me the following recruiting story. In the last few weeks, he has interviewed over 20 candidates for several sales openings, Manager [...]
How real should you be in interviews?
I love it when my blog readers suggest topics for discussion. One reader suggested this article for discussion – It’s a job interview, not a beautiful pageant. From reader 1: The article primarily discusses how a job interview should be treated – as an avenue to express one’s true self or as a formality to [...]
Five Most Common Interview Mistakes
Today, US News posted on Yahoo finance an interesting article called 50 worst of the worst interview mistakes. While most of the listed are pretty obvious and funny, I want to comment on five mistakes that are commonly made even by people who have fairly good interviewing skills. #16 Failing to make a strong case [...]
Interview feedback questions
When practicing mock interviews, it’s important to ask specific questions after the interview to get the feedback that you need to improve. Here are some sample feedback questions to ask. This set of questions assumes that before the mock interview, you briefed your friend on the details of the job you are applying. Open ended [...]
Innovative, free interview practice tool – BetterTalking
Seems like interview practice is a popular topic. I just came across this cool new tool by a start-up company called SayHired. Their tool is called BetterTalking – it’s a free social media tool that can help you practice your phone interviewing skills. Specifically, BetterTalking helps you record yourself online answering common interview questions save [...]
Interview tip – practice makes perfect
It’s amazing how much children (like my 21 months old) can repeatedly do things so they can learn a new skill, like how to build a puzzle. There is no hesitation or judgment – just pure focus on repeating an action until she gets it right and sheer drive to learn more everyday. Developing your [...]
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