13 Questions to Ask During Your Next Interview. Jayne Mattson is Senior Vice President at Keystone Associates, a leading career management and transition services consulting firm in Boston.
Mattson specializes in helping mid-to-senior level individuals in new career exploration, networking strategies and career decisions based on corporate culture fit. As you look for a new job, will you take any job offer or are you looking for the right one? What does the right job mean? Too often job seekers do not take enough time to reflect on where they have been in their careers before they actively begin their new job search. And when they receive an offer, they do not have any criteria that help them determine the right fit.
To help you identify what the right role would look like, think back on times during your career when you were the most satisfied. Does the culture meet the work values that you need fulfilled to succeed? Determining Fit with Questions. How to Perfect Your Elevator Pitch. Nellie Akalp is the CEO of CorpNet.com, an online legal document filing service, where she helps entrepreneurs incorporate or form an LLC for their new businesses.
Connect with Nellie on Twitter or visit her free resource center for more tips! Just about everyone has heard of the elevator pitch – that succinct summation of what you do that piques the interest of a potential customer or investor. Of course, in the Internet age, the elevator pitch has been shortened to the escalator pitch, then the Twitter pitch. As a result, a person has to adapt to the situation they're in. So, what do you do when you’re hit with the inevitable question "what do you do?” One of the most important things a businessperson can do is learn how to speak about what they do. 1. One of the key mistakes people make when answering what they do is to automatically start at the macro level, with their industry or job category.
While such broad descriptions may be true, they’re far too abstract. 5 Ways to Lose Your Dream Job During the Interview Process. Mona Abdel-Halim is the co-founder of Resunate.com, a job application tool that tailors and optimizes your resume for a specific job.
You can find Mona and Resunate on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. If you’ve been on the job search for a while, it’s likely you have a good idea of things you should be doing to land a new job, such as optimizing your resume or building your personal brand online. Of course, you can't get the job if you don't make a great impression on your interviewer or potential employer. But there are also plenty of ways you can ruin your chances of getting a new job. It may seem obvious, but you'd be surprised how many people kill their chances before they've even left their interview. 1.
If your resume makes it past an employer’s applicant tracking system and impresses the hiring manager, it’s likely you’ll be invited for a phone interview. Here’s a great example of what not to do (courtesy of an anonymous employer via MyCrappyResume): 2. Inside the Recruiter's Head: What He's Really Asking You During the Interview. Jayne Mattson is Senior Vice President at Keystone Associates, a leading career management and transition services consulting firm in Boston, Massachusetts.
Mattson specializes in helping mid-to-senior level individuals in new career exploration, networking strategies and career decisions based on corporate culture fit. You applied for a new job, and you've been called in for an interview. During the interview process, there are three main questions that need to be answered to help the HR person determine if you're the right fit for the job: Can this person do the job? Will he do the job? By asking what I call “the question behind the question,” hiring managers have a better chance to making the right hiring decision. 1.
This question gets at the heart of why you're leaving the current job or, in the case of a reduction in workforce, it helps the interviewer understand what was missing. 2. 3. 4. 5.