So you’ve finally obtained that hard-to-get interview – congratulations! But now what do you do? What can you expect in the interview? First and foremost, you must realize that in the job interview you’re a sales representative and the product you’re selling is….you! This means you have to be ready to sell your skills and…
This is the first in a series of job interview advice posts that are designed to put you ahead of the vast majority of your competition. Believe it or not, hiring managers can also be uneasy during interviews, particularly so when we interview someone who is obviously unqualified and/or unprepared. This means that everything you…
It happens sometimes. You had an interview, thought it went well, and you’ve heard nothing. You want to follow up but don’t want to come across as desperate or offensive. Here’s how to do it the right way. From a timing standpoint, if you haven’t heard anything in two weeks after a first interview, it’s…
Here’s the scenario: you’ve interviewed for a job and it seemed to go pretty well. It’s been a week and you haven’t heard anything. Now what should you do? Keep waiting? If so, how long? Call HR and ask what your status is? Call the Hiring Manager and ask why you’ve rudely been kept waiting?…
A friend of mine recently went through a job interview and told me afterward that he felt it was going very well until he got asked the following question: “What do you see as your greatest weakness?”. He admitted he wasn’t prepared for it (he should have been – this question get asked fairly often)…
Landing a job interview is arguably the hardest part of getting a great paying job. So why then would you risk not securing that job because you didn’t look the part in the interview? No matter what kind of job you are after, you need to look more than just presentable when going into your…
There is no doubt that job interviews can be extremely stressful. However, what can either increase or decrease your stress can be the way in which you react to the questions that are being asked during the interview. An easy mistake to make in an interview is trying to figure out what the potential employer…
You know that a job interview is going to be your best chance to convince a potential employer that you are the best candidate for a specific job, but you may not know that there are certain times when you should not interview. This goes beyond not interviewing because you think the job will not…
Despite the seemingly inexhaustible amount of information pertaining to the do’s and don’t of an interview, it seems like prospective employees either don’t bother doing their research or just plain forget about the basic common courtesies that could be the difference between employment and yet another rejection. Regardless of how qualified you think you are,…
There is little doubt that your best chance at getting a job lies within the job interview. Yes, your resume can dazzle a potential employer, but you then have to follow up that dazzle by nailing the interview. If you go about your interview a certain way, you can almost assure this is done. First…
The next step after passing out your resume to hundreds, and maybe even thousands, of potential employers is to hope for a job interview or two. When you do land a job interview you need to be sure that you treat the opportunity with the utmost of respect and know how you should conduct yourself…
Okay, you’ve landed an interview with the company of your dreams and you are probably nervous about it. You can do a great deal to prepare yourself for the job interview by first conducting a pre-interview on yourself. While the idea may sound silly, it works wonders as after all, who is a bigger critic…
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