5 Steps to Perfect Follow Up
In a competitive job market, your follow up skills can make a big difference. Part strategy and part common courtesy, good follow up skills can separate you from the crowd and position you for a job offer.
Category: Interviewing
Handling the Panel Interview: Part 2
Panel interviews will usually be more formal than a single interviewer format; the panel will generally take turns asking structured questions and will take good notes.
Handling the Panel Interview: Part 1
A panel interview consists, as you might imagine, of a group of interviewers instead of a single person. The panel interview is a time-saving method for companies who wish to have several representatives from different parts of the company see a candidate. Instead of scheduling several interviews over a period of days or weeks, the company reps can all see the candidate at once. They also have the advantage of seeing the candidate at the same time and hearing the question responses in the same context.
Crisp Telephone Skills Can Improve Your Hiring Prospects
Great phone skills make great first impressions. Working on yours can give you an edge even before the interview.
Behavior-Based Interviewing (Part 2)
The primary difference between traditional and behavioral based interviewing is that traditional interviewing asks generalized questions such as, “What motivates you to put forth your greatest effort?” while Behavior-Based Interviewing (BBI) asks for specific examples from the recent past, such as: “Give me an example of a time recently when you needed to adjust quickly to new information. What did you do and how did it turn out?”
Behavior-Based Interviewing (Part 1)
With traditional interview questions becoming stale, many recruiters believe that behavioral-based interviewing (BBI) is the key to predicting how a candidate would perform on the job and fit into the organization. The driving concept behind BBI is that past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior.
Applying Yourself
Many jobseekers are impatient with the application process – especially established workers with a resume in hand. “Why even bother?” they’ll ask. “Can’t I just write in ‘See resume?’”?
The answer is no, for a couple of good reasons.
Less Stress, Better Interview
Being prepared for the interview is one of the best stress relievers.
Look the Part to Get the Job
Have the rules changed for corporate dress? Young workers and jobseekers seem to think so. “The idea that you have to wear hose and heels to the office every day died a decade ago,” one 20-something staffer told me. “In Florida? In July? I don’t think so!”
Even Good Resumes Get Lost
Unfortunately, even good resumes get overlooked, lost, or discarded due to jobseekers’ errors in judgment. Based on formal and informal discussions with hiring managers, here are some common mistakes that can sink your chances of getting noticed among dozens of resumes.
