Interviewing Archive
Interviewing may be the most important skill in your job search. Hiring managers decide who to hire based on the interviews. Your resume helps you get an interview, and references checks and assessment tests are used to validate the conclusions of the interviews. None of these will get you
There are some interesting articles about how Barack Obama is using Neurolinguistic Programming in his speeches to "hypnotize" the audience. This may be a bit of an exaggeration, but the techniques he employs are very persuasive. NLP has been discussed as a technique to help people interview
When you interview, you may be competing against the perfect person. In fact, your competition may be the absolute ideal candidate that the hiring manager can imagine. We all know that there isn’t a perfect candidate. Despite this, you may be competing against perfection. How is this
One of the interview topics that many job seekers struggle with is discussing failure. We want to focus on success in an interview and shifting gears to admit a failure can be difficult. The questions that you can expect in some interviews include: Tell me about a
Sarah Palin answers a question in the first Vice Presidential debate and demonstrates some important interview principles.
Joe Biden gave a very concise answer in the Vice Presidential debate. His answer illustrates several important facets of interviewing.
John McCain's performance in the first Presidential debate demonstrates several important lessons to remember in a job interview. McCain's answer is assessed based on six criteria used to prepare and assess the interview skills of job seekers.
The Presidential and Vice Presidential debates are a form of job interview and demonstrate interview techniques that can help job seekers. I'm going to review the interview techniques of all four candidates starting with Barack Obama.
With the current financial crisis, there is tremendous uncertainty in our economy. This is most obvious in the financial markets after Monday’s decline. The markets are worried and investors react to increasing risk by selling. Now the decline in stocks doesn’t directly affect the job market. In
This post is my first video post! I recorded a short video on how to prepare for an interview when you only have little bit of time to get ready. The video follows the post I had Monday pretty closely (7 Things You Need To Do Before
