The Best Answers to Tough Interview Questions The Best Answers to Tough Interview Questions Tell me about yourself. This is really more of a request than a question. But these few words can put you on the spot in a way no question can. Many quickly lose control of the interview during the most critical time- the first five minutes. "I was born in and attended . This response sets a nice tone for starting the interview. Repeat Key Accomplishment Statements Throughout the interview you will be asked numerous questions about your attitude and ability to do the job. Where do you see yourself five years from now? This open-ended question is one of the most difficult and stressful ones job seekers face. "In five years I hope to be working with an employer in an increasingly responsible position, that enables me to utilize my talents and work closely with my colleagues in solving important problems. Do not indicate that you hope to start your own business, change careers, or go back to school. Be careful here. We all have weaknesses.
Legal Challenges Related To Crowdfunding, Volume 1 Editor's note: This is a guest post by Antti Hemmilä from Attorneys at law Borenius. While crowdfunding is not a new concept, it is getting a lot of media attention nowadays. Crowdfunding is evolving and new crowdfunding platforms provide an excellent tool for financing different projects, whether these are art projects, game or hardware/device development or even equity financing. Lessons learned - How to plan your (non-equity) crowdfunding campaign to comply with Finnish law The crowdfunded book campaign by Senja Larsen has sparked a lot of controversy in Finland in the past few weeks (if you don’t know Senja's case, you can google all about it). The magic word when considering legality of crowdfunding campaign is consideration. If you want to run a crowdfunding project safely within the Finnish fundraising regulation, you need to design it as a pre-order scheme for physical or digital products and be very specific about the nature of the project. Antti Hemmilä inShare
How to Know If You're Working (and Living) With Purpose "If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life." --Abraham Maslow Living with purpose is one of the most self-actualized activities we can participate in. Unfortunately, it eludes many of us. To better understand if you're living a life with purpose, begin by asking these four questions: Is the work I'm doing exciting and/or satisfying? Not all of us are hard-wired to be enthusiastic and ebullient when we're happy. Regardless of your neurological wiring, when you're living with purpose you should be feeling one of these two ways--excitement or satisfaction--most of the time. When you're living with purpose, you feel it, too--either excitement, contentment or both. What keeps showing up in my life? Life has a way of showing us our purpose--if we'll only listen. Examine those activities and find the common thread. For those who know me, this is no secret--I'm a Lover.
How to Answer the Question "Tell Me About Yourself" The 7 Sleeper Features of an Effective Cover Letter Everyone knows that a cover letter can make or break your chance of being considered for a position. It shouldn't. It's intended to lead the employer to review your résumé and provide additional information to be considered for the job. So what do hiring managers want to see in a cover letter? 1. A great first sentence. Starting your cover letter with something like, "Congratulations on your recent award," MacLean-Hoover says, "demonstrates familiarity with the employer, making it clear the candidate has done his or her homework." MacLean-Hoover, who helps job applicants determine why they don't hear back from all the résumés they send out, stresses the importance of tailoring that first sentence to the person or the company. 2. 3. 4. 5.
'Dropbox' Is Taking Over The World BEFORE Apple launched iCloud in 2011, Steve Jobs allegedly offered to buy Dropbox, a file-sharing service founded in 2007, for $800m. When Dropbox declined, Apple's late boss disparaged it as a feature, not a company. Soon after, Dropbox raised $250m, putting its value at over $4 billion. In December Dropbox concluded a promotional campaign that, in just a few weeks, added 2m new users, bringing the total to over 100m, roughly double the number when Jobs made his comment. Dropbox dominates online file-sharing. Most of them use the free version of the service. Dropbox relies on individuals and small firms, for whom its rudimentary security features are good enough; bigger businesses with sensitive information prefer more secure services like Box.net. Google and Microsoft clouds emulate Dropbox in these respects. Dropbox is also striving to make itself the default choice for smartphone users. A bigger long-term worry is the plummeting price of digital storage.
10 Things Extraordinary Bosses Give Employees Good bosses have strong organizational skills. Good bosses have solid decision-making skills. Good bosses get important things done. Exceptional bosses do all of the above--and more. Sure, they care about their company and customers, their vendors and suppliers. But most importantly, they care to an exceptional degree about the people who work for them. That's why extraordinary bosses give every employee: 1. Great organizations are built on optimizing processes and procedures. Engagement and satisfaction are largely based on autonomy and independence. Plus, freedom breeds innovation: Even heavily process-oriented positions have room for different approaches. Whenever possible, give your employees the autonomy and independence to work the way they work best. 2. While every job should include some degree of independence, every job does also need basic expectations for how specific situations should be handled. 3. Plus, goals are fun. No one likes work. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. No employee is perfect.
The 5 Best Questions a Job Candidate Can Ask Marriage and Family Therapist Career Interview - myFootpath.com Go to Marriage and Family Career Profile » Dr. Carmen Knudson-Martin has been a marriage and family therapist for over 25 years and is the current director of the Ph.D. program in marriage and family therapy at the Loma Linda University in California. She is also a member of the American Family Therapy Association (AFTA). Marriage and Family Therapist Career Path Carmen found her passion for therapy after a career in education. “I was a teacher,” she explains, “and I was interested in the kids who were struggling, such as with their family relationships. This isn’t how most people find a career in therapy, according to Carmen. “I wasn’t a psychology major, which is how a lot of people come at it,” she says. Marriage and Family Therapist Experiences Carmen received her Ph.D. in marriage and family therapy from the University of Southern California and her Master’s degree in family education from Utah State. She has been a family therapist for 25 years.
How To Become Valuable To A Start Up (If You’re Not An Engineer) For all the glamor and noble intentions attributed to start-ups, working at an early-stage technology start-up isn’t fundamentally dissimilar from working at an established technology company. Products are built, released, iterated upon based on customer feedback, and the cycle is repeated. And while I don’t think I’d ever want to trade in jeans and a t-shirt for slacks and a button-down, I know I could probably get a job at GeneriCorp, the company that makes automated accounting process optimization software for mid-sized wastewater treatment plants, and not feel totally out of place. One key distinction does exist between life at an early-stage technology start-up and at an established technology company, though: diversity of workload. These ancillary duties almost always involve coding, because a technology start-up is driven by software engineering. Marketing is perhaps the field to which programming knowledge provides the most benefit (but is most often glossed over). inShare
Cut Your Meeting Time by 90% The One Answer You Should Never Give In An Interview Many of us have been there: You're in an interview, doing fairly well, when the interviewer asks you that dreaded question: "What's your biggest weakness?" In an effort to avoid mentioning your actual biggest weakness, whatever it may be, you turn to what sounds like a good answer: "I'm a perfectionist." But unfortunately, this common, made-to-please response comes across as inauthentic at worst and lacking self-awareness at best. "Such a person is likely to be lying," said Peter Cappelli, a management professor and director of the Center for Human Resources at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. And if you actually were a perfectionist, there's no way you'd give this answer, experts say. "People who say perfectionism is their problem tend to not be perfectionists, rather people who are trying to do the whole 'positive as a negative' trick," said Suzanne Lucas, who writes the popular blog Evil HR Lady. "True perfectionism is a terrible quality," Lucas said.