A Guide to Better Interviews: Provide Specifics to Prove How Indispensable You Are

So, you're counting down the days until your big interview! You look the part for the job and have pieced together the most professional choice of attire. You have practiced and reviewed the most frequently asked interview questions and have rehearsed them while maintaining eye contact. By the standards of many, you are perfectly ready to go. However, if you desire to stand out in a big way and become the hiring manager's top choice, you have to push yourself to the next level.    As we have discussed previously in this series, you have to maintain a solid confidence and keep your edge when it comes to steering your interview in the right direction. Your answers to questions asked of you must not be rushed but, alternatively, must not be drug out for too long. You need to speak concisely, however, you don't need to cut any corners [...]

A Guide to Better Interviews: Provide Specifics to Prove How Indispensable You Are2017-09-20T09:53:28-05:00

A Guide to Better Interviews: Rediscovering Your Confidence

So, hindsight is 20/20, right? We rarely have the perfect words at the opportune time, and we freeze in the middle of tough conversations and feel a total loss for words. Yet, later that day as we're replaying the scenario a hundred times over in our mind, we can think of a dozen different comebacks that would have been ideal. Losing confidence and courage in an important moment is very frustrating. What happens when one of those frustrating moments occurs right in the middle of an important job interview? You're already sweating bullets and second guessing your outfit. The commute took longer than you anticipated, and you've got less time to collect yourself than you thought you would have before they call your name to go back into "the room". With so much left to chance when it comes to your interview day, [...]

A Guide to Better Interviews: Rediscovering Your Confidence2017-09-20T09:53:58-05:00

A Guide to Better Interviews: Approaching the Intersection While in the Driver’s Seat

Many people believe that the hiring manager takes the reins when it comes to a job interview. He or she is responsible for selecting the job candidates and organizing the details, and the level of authority of this position does create a great amount of responsibility throughout the interview process. However, despite the take-charge position of the hiring manager, the candidate also has a a fair amount of control and sway. When it comes to the different directions that the interview can potentially go, you have more power than you realize. This potential interview power is what we are going to be focusing on in this current blog series. So many people are unaware of what it takes to fully prepare for a solid interview, all of the hours it takes to get an accurate read of the company you are interviewing [...]

A Guide to Better Interviews: Approaching the Intersection While in the Driver’s Seat2017-09-20T09:54:24-05:00

Career Tips for Making Networking Less Awkward

Maybe it was your friend from junior high that moved across the country and lost touch. Maybe it was that random guy from a summer class in college who you exchanged notes with one day. Those connections have proved helpful in the past, and you know that it’s worth the risk of putting your nervous self out there to gain favor within great companies.   Piggybacking on last week’s blog, we know how awkward it can be to reach out to those individuals whom you haven’t talked to in ages. However, we also recognize that pushing past the awkward beginnings can bring fruitful networking relationships that will advance your career in phenomenal ways. So, where do you start? If it’s going to be awkward no matter how you look at it, then how can you cut to the chase and shoot [...]

Career Tips for Making Networking Less Awkward2017-09-20T09:50:24-05:00