Many years ago, I discovered a book called Your Best Year Yet: Ten Questions for Making Your Next Twelve Months the Most Successful Ever. In it, author Jinny Ditzler invites you take stock of yourself by answering questions like, Normally, these sorts of exercises are not my idea of a good time. (They’re too “New Read More
job interviews
How to Connect on Video Interviews
Even before our current “social distancing” epoch, many — perhaps most — job interviews had started moving online, to become video calls. Video interviews are only going to get more prevalent, so you’ve got to master the skill of connecting across the screen. 1. Start by Understanding What a Job Interview Is No matter the Read More
Six HR, Recruiting, and Career Experts Tell You How to GET THE JOB!
To celebrate my book, INTERVIEW LIKE YOURSELF…NO, REALLY! Follow Your Strengths and Skills to GET THE JOB, I invited six top hiring professionals to share their insights and advice about the job interviewing process: Patrick Mulvey, HR Consultant Paula Seibel, Retained Executive Search Firm Owner Rob Duval, Chief Human Resources Officer Anne Loehr, Executive Coach Read More
Job Interview Tips from Fast Company and INTERVIEW LIKE YOURSELF
It turns out that my book Interview Like Yourself…No, Really! Follow Your Strengths and Skills to GET THE JOB is in good company. Fast Company, to be more precise. In their new book, Heads: Business Lessons from an Executive Search Pioneer, Russell S. Reynolds, Jr. and Carol E. Curtis include tips for answering some tough interview questions — Read More
Public Speaking Tip 40: How to Answer Questions Without Boring Your Listener (a/k/a Know When to Stop Talking!)
Stop Talking Early and Often Recently, I happened to overhear a job interview being conducted in my local bakery. (What can I say; it’s Brooklyn!) And what caught my ear was that the job candidate talked about herself for 10 minutes in response to her interviewer’s first question! She didn’t know when to stop talking, even Read More