Age bias in interviews is real. Most experienced candidates who don’t get the offer are losing to a signal they didn’t know they sent. Here’s how to spot it.
Interviewing during the holidays
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Missed Opportunity for Job Interview Practice
A Holiday Tradition
There’s no better time to start job interview practice than the holidays.
Every year, I watch close friends shepherd their little monsters through another festive season. I see the same missed career development opportunity playing out in public. It forces me to question the future of corporate America. Not because children are terrible. But because adults are raising future coworkers and teaching them exactly the wrong lessons.
New trend: Millennial and Gen Z Job Interview Mistakes
This candidate has no idea they made the millennial and Gen Z job interview mistake
New Trend in Job Interview Mistakes
There is a new trend of Millennials and Gen Z job interview mistakes. This is something that wasn’t as prevalent in the past, and I would not have noticed if I had not interviewed candidates for years.
Having led HR departments for the past few decades, candidates regularly ask me early in their careers about job interview mistakes.
Job Interview Practice before meeting with CEO of Christmas
These two didn’t get any interview practice for their meeting with the CEO of Christmas
Missed opportunity for job interview practice
There’s no better time to start job interview practice than the holidays. I have close friends with little monsters and see a wasted career development opportunity. Watching them go through another holiday season forces me to question the future of corporate America. There are plenty who feel I am insensitive and that I do not believe in humanity.
Job offer review, the hidden numbers behind a job offer
The salary is just the tip of the iceberg. Ask the right questions, and you can avoid surprises.
Job offer review, the hidden numbers
Do you know what job offer review questions to ask when contemplating a new position? I give a lot of job offers in my line of work, and it surprises me how often a candidate will take a job without asking for a job offer review. The candidate hears the hourly rate or the annual salary and “accepts”
What is your desired salary?
Will your answer to the Desired Salary question make it rain?
We know the Desired Salary question is coming
“What is your desired salary question?” Ever worried if your number was too high or too low when interviewing for your dream job? Ever wonder if you are disqualifying yourself or leaving money on the table?
- Hesitating on this answer shows insecurity and this of all questions is not where we show insecurity.
What to do when we realize we provided the wrong interview answer
Uhh yeah, wrong answer. How do you recover?
Wrong Interview Answer
What do you do when you realize that you provided the wrong interview answer? What do you do when you realize we could have answered an interview question more effectively after we have left the interview.
We have all done it. We are in the job interview and things are going well. Then, we are asked a question that we aren’t prepared for.
Job Reference follow up
A beautiful gesture!
Job reference follow up
You would be surprised how many candidates unintentionally burn bridges with their references after the job was landed. Don’t think it was you? If we are not reaching out with updates to these important contacts, that bridge may be burned. Today’s post is part three in a series of three posts on the topic of handling our references: how to strengthen the bond between us the candidate and our reference.