Doubtless you’ve heard the phrase, “It’s all about the timing.” It’s not easy to trust this during a job search. Can you push the timing, or do you just have to wait?
Category: Real Job Seeker Stories & Successes
Interview Practice for Competitive Advantage
An interview coaching client hired me after having not interviewed for 25+ years. He now finds himself having to switch jobs. He’s a wonderful structural design engineer, who said after session #2, “This is helping so much, I really can tell this practice and your input is helping me. I already feel much more confident & comfortable answering the questions.” I guess so because he bought another 3 hour package. During the feedback about one of those tricky questions like, “Tell me about a time a co-worker or client got angry with you & how you handled it“, he said, Read More
Has This Happened to You in an Interview?
A wonderful client (okay, 99.9% of my clients are wonderful! I set it up that way!) had an interview yesterday & sent me a note about it. She said, “..not a lot of interviewing happened, the interviewer talked a lot…” Has this ever happened to you? It did to me once, and what it told me, in that case, anyway, was that this probably indicated a few characteristics of at least that manager (who would be my manager), and probably, then, the organization under her management style. To me, it signaled a lack focus on details/due diligence with much Read More