Archive for interview tips
Maximize Twitter in Just 15 Minutes a Day
You can integrate Twitter into your job search activities and you can do it in 15 minutes a day (after some learning-curve time for setting up your account and reviewing the basics).
It’s disturbingly easy to spend hours watching and responding to your Twitter stream—it’s as easy as spending hours applying to positions online, or as [...]
One On One Interview
Sessions like this last two hours and is entirely calculated around the requirements and personal circumstances. From communication, team playing, leadership, management, ethical/difficult work scenarios, all of these aspects are being covered in an interview. For a mock up interview that usually last 20-30 minutes, interviewers are assessing your technique and weaknesses. Complete feedback regarding [...]
Who Moved My Job?
Who Moved my Job? is a short story about globalization and the migration of work throughout the world. I’ve written several more formal books on the subject, and my next book is entitled Talking Outsourcing so you can guess what that’s about, but I wanted to try exploring some ideas of migration by using a [...]
Positioning Yourself for Global Opportunities
Americans have a funny way of dealing with our lack of global business experience – we typically import the expertise.
Alexis de Bretteville, CEO of the Americas at Michael Page International in New York is a case in point. The European born executive, who heads up the Americas region for one of the world’s largest executive [...]
Do You Have the Stamina for Career Success?
In the book Executive Stamina: How to Optimize Time, Energy and Productivity to Achieve Peak Performance, authors Marty and Joshua Seldman make the case that by “optimizing your effectiveness,” you can enjoy a “long, balanced and successful career.”
The book might also be called Get Your Act Together, Dude!
Marty, the father, is an executive coach and [...]
5 Steps to Finding and Keeping a Passion-Filled Job
Are you unhappy at work–with one foot out the door? If so, you’re not alone. The new Conference Board report on employee attitudes found that well over half of American workers (55%), and a full two-thirds (66%) of workers under 25, are dissatisfied with their jobs. Meanwhile, a Monster.com survey found that 89% of employees would be [...]
5 Steps to Finding and Keeping a Passion-Filled Job
Are you unhappy at work–with one foot out the door? If so, you’re not alone. The new Conference Board report on employee attitudes found that well over half of American workers (55%), and a full two-thirds (66%) of workers under 25, are dissatisfied with their jobs. Meanwhile, a Monster.com survey found that 89% of employees would be [...]
9 Steps to Prepare for Behavioral Interviews
In a job interview, you may field questions about your situational behavior and decision making. That’s based on the premise that past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior. Behavioral questions (often not even framed as a question) typically start out: “Tell me about a time…” or “Describe a situation…”
Example questions are: “Tell me [...]
Five Ways to Boost Your Loyalty and Happiness at Work
How loyal are you to your employer? Would you be willing to cut pay, benefits, or hours to help keep your company afloat? Do you feel as if you and your company are “in this together”?
If you said “No way!” to the above questions, you’re not alone. A new study by research giant Ipsos Loyalty [...]
Seven Things to Say After Hearing You’re Fired
Let’s talk about getting fired. So the boss calls you in to her office. Things haven’t been going well lately at the company. Sales are down. So is new hiring. You take a seat and your boss says, “I’m sorry to have to tell you this, but we need to let you go.” What do [...]
