He’s gaming the system, and he’ll be better off for it. How many of you were told that if you worked hard and were loyal to a company for many years, you would reap significant financial benefits? If your parents or grandparents worked for a company that gave out large pensions upon retirement or had …
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Job interviewer tells job interviewee to shut up after he spent 5 minutes explaining his background and interrupted the interviewer 7 times: ‘John, you really have to shut up and listen.’
In this situation, he really needed to be told to shut up. Unfortunately, we aren’t really taught how to interview for jobs in school. There are a lot of things that you’d think would be common sense not to do in job interviews, but people make the same mistakes over and over again. One of …
Seguir leyendo Job interviewer tells job interviewee to shut up after he spent 5 minutes explaining his background and interrupted the interviewer 7 times: ‘John, you really have to shut up and listen.’
HR boss rejects one candidate for being 2 minutes early to the interview instead of 5 minutes, rejects another for wearing brown shoes with a black belt: ‘These people had better qualifications than our current team.’
Job interviews are a lot like dates…a lot of times, people are actively looking for a reason to reject someone instead of looking for reasons to stick with them. For dating, a lot of this comes down to that initial feeling of attraction. If you don’t feel attracted to someone in the first moments of …
Seguir leyendo HR boss rejects one candidate for being 2 minutes early to the interview instead of 5 minutes, rejects another for wearing brown shoes with a black belt: ‘These people had better qualifications than our current team.’
Job interviewer asks job candidate his favorite drink, candidate says ‘water’ and refuses to elaborate: ‘C’mon, you can do better than that’
Everybody knows that job interviews are not merely about whether you’re qualified to do a job. If that was the case, companies could just hire people based on a written test and their resume. Job interviews serve the very specific function of determining whether someone would be pleasant to be around for 8 hours a …
Seguir leyendo Job interviewer asks job candidate his favorite drink, candidate says ‘water’ and refuses to elaborate: ‘C’mon, you can do better than that’
‘Company got caught lowballing me’: Director mistakenly CCs applicant on shady post-interview email
Interviewing for jobs can be such a thankless experience. In this day and age, it’s almost guaranteed that hundreds of people are applying for the same gig that you are – and if you know anything about statistics and probability, the odds are (generally) not in your favor. Unless you’re a nepotism baby, of course. …
Seguir leyendo ‘Company got caught lowballing me’: Director mistakenly CCs applicant on shady post-interview email
‘Company got caught lowballing me’: Director accidentally CCs applicant on shady post-interview email
Interviewing for jobs can be such a thankless experience. In this day and age, it’s almost guaranteed that hundreds of people are applying for the same gig that you are – and if you know anything about statistics and probability, the odds are (generally) not in your favor. Unless you’re a nepotism baby, of course. …
Seguir leyendo ‘Company got caught lowballing me’: Director accidentally CCs applicant on shady post-interview email
People Share Tragic Tales of Their Worst Job Interviews
There’s no way around it: job interviews are usually challenging experiences that can lead to great embarrassment, total humiliation, excessive perspiration, and a whole lot of anxiety. When I interview for a job I sweat like it’s 100 degrees out and I’ve just run a marathon. I look like George Costanza after a few bites …
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People Share Painful Tales of Their Worst Job Interviews
There’s no way around it: job interviews are usually challenging experiences that can lead to great embarrassment, total humiliation, excessive perspiration, and a whole lot of anxiety. When I interview for a job I sweat like it’s 100 degrees out and I’ve just run a marathon. I look like George Costanza after a few bites …
Seguir leyendo People Share Painful Tales of Their Worst Job Interviews
Painful Tales of Peoples’ Worst Job Interviews
There’s no way around it: job interviews are usually challenging experiences that can lead to great embarrassment, total humiliation, excessive perspiration, and a whole lot of anxiety. When I interview for a job I sweat like it’s 100 degrees out and I’ve just run a marathon. I look like George Costanza after a few bites …
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20 Painful Tales of Peoples’ Worst Job Interviews
There’s no way around it: job interviews are usually challenging experiences that can lead to great embarrassment, total humiliation, and a whole lot of anxiety. When I interview for a job I sweat like it’s 100 degrees out and I’ve just run a marathon. I stumble my words and make bad jokes out of nervousness. …
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