How To Cope With A Bad Job Interviewer

How To Cope With A Bad Job Interviewer 269 Sometimes a bad job interview doesn’t mean you were a bad job interviewee. This is a guest post by Will Kerr. If you’d also like to guest post here on JobMob, follow these guest post guidelines. When you’re preparing to launch yourself into the lion’s den of a job interview, you’ll usually be entirely focused on your own performance, from planning out your dress, to ensuring you’ll look your best, to perfecting your handshake. While all of these preparations are undoubtedly vital, they make it all too easy to lose track of the fact that an interview is a dialogue and, by its very nature, is not all about you.eval Unfortunately, how well you interview is only half the equation. You also have to hope you get an interviewer who knows what they’re doing. As someone who’s been on both sides of the table, it becomes immediately obvious when you’ve been lumped with an inexperienced interviewer.eval This is never ideal, but, as long as you are able to recognize the traits of a bad interviewer, you can take action to make sure that, in spite of them, you still manage to give the best possible account of yourself. Free bonus: The One Job Interview Resource You’ll Ever Need is a handy reference to help you prepare for any kind of job interview. Download it free now Here are some 3 common scenarios that can arise with a poor interviewer and tips for handling them: 1) An Interviewer That Does All the Talking If you’ve ever interviewed for a fairly high pressure role, or one that requires a good deal of assertiveness, you’ve probably been on the end of interviewing tactics designed to weed out those who are too passive to succeed. One classic example of this is where an interviewer remains almost silent, an aggressive technique that can make those of a nervous disposition feel uneasy and lead to them babbling on. Indeed, the police even use this method in interrogations. Of course, this is the preserve of experienced interviewers who know exactly what they are looking for. At the other hand of the spectrum, as you might expect, you’ll often find an inexperienced interviewer doing the exact opposite; talking endlessly (possibly as a result of their own nervousness) to the point that you’re struggling to even get a word in. In some cases, you may feel that this is because the job is in the bag and they’re desperately trying to sell its appeal to you, but this a dangerous assumption to make. Even if your interviewer doesn’t seem overly concerned to hear more about your credentials, you owe it to yourself to make sure that they have the necessary evidence to make an informed choice when, hopefully, they offer you the post. 2) An Under-prepared Interviewer There is nothing more disheartening than going into an interview, only for it to soon become clear that your opposite number isn’t 100% clear on who you are, and isn’t particularly familiar with your resume. Indeed, in some cases, where a department is trying to fill multiple vacancies simultaneously, it’s not unheard of for an interviewer to be a little hazy as to which role the candidate in front of them is actually applying for. Alternatively, you might be lucky enough to be one of selected few candidates being interviewed for a high level position, a role which requires senior staff to be present at interview. In this case, you can find your interviewer is clearly distracted by their many other concerns, recruitment not being their primary responsibilities. Either way, you’ll have your work cut out for you. In some cases you’ll have to simply remember that, in giving your answers, you cannot assume the level of knowledge from your interviewer that you may have expected. So, for example, if you give information in reference to something listed on your resume, make sure they actually know what you’re talking about. If you really feel the situation is hopeless, do not be afraid to ask if they’d prefer to reschedule. As long as you pose the question in a polite manner, it won’t reflect badly on you, and even seem considerate. Besides, if it’s come to that, you don’t really have anything to lose. 3) An Overly Aggressive Interviewer Many people, when placed in a situation that they are not completely comfortable with, can respond by bluffing bravado. Interviewers lacking in experience are far from immune to this. This is worth bearing in mind if you’re sensing a combative atmosphere in your interview, if your opposite number interrupts you midway through a response, or openly contradicts you for instance. Whether this is a deliberate ploy, or a sign or nerves, your only option is to keep calm and carry on. One great way of doing this is to have a glass of water to hand. Even if you’re not thirsty, taking a sip is a great way to give yourself a little time to surreptitiously keep your cool and order your thoughts. Free Bonus If you want a handy job interview resource that you can keep on your smartphone or print out for easy reference, I’ve got a special bonus for you. This free download contains: 165 positive personality adjectives to describe yourself 444 of the most popular job interviewer questions to prepare yourself with 175 questions that you can ask in job interviews to make a good impression and learn about your future employer Click the image below to get access to The One Job Interview Resource You’ll Ever Need: JobMob Insiders can get this free bonus and other exclusive content in the JobMob Insider Bonuses area. Join now, it's free! About the Author Will Kerr has enjoyed a fruitful career in recruitment and writes about his experiences in order to help job seekers progress their careers. You can read more of his work over at www.job-centre-vacancies.co.uk. Question of the article What was your most memorable interview with a bad job interviewer? Tell us in the comments. READ NOW: How to Quickly Recover From Bad Job Interviews.

Build Relationships With Thank You - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

Build Relationships With Thank You - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career As an entrepreneur your goal should always be to further develop repeat business, referrals and testimonials. Job seekers and those who wish to further their careers need to foster past connections. Sometimes though we fall down on building relationships or even remaining in touch. Regroup and reconnect The holidays are a perfect time to regroup and reconnect. This does not have to be a huge expenditure although it will take time implementing. The rewards make the time allotment well worthwhile. 1. Call your close associates to exchange updates. When it is your turn, mention specifically the type of job you are seeking or the project on which you are concentrating and your preferred audience. 2. Choose whether you will send a traditional greeting card or an electronic one to those who have helped you in the past or with home you wish to get your toe in the door. 3. The lasting impression is best made with a traditional card. Whichever you decide, I can tell you that your card will be appreciated because most people do not go to all this trouble. Standing out with little cost As a job seeker, you will truly stand out in the crowd when you send a thoughtful card to the hiring manager of a company that has delayed making a candidate selection. Think about it no one takes offense by a thank you. Instead, we all wish our work was appreciated just a teensy bit more and we relish those occasional cards. The message inside the card should reflect who you are and be appropriate for the receiver. Receipt of these cards containing a sincere message of appreciation, your name and phone number underneath stand a very high chance of sitting on the recipients’ desks for a while making you noticed and remembered for certain, and very possibly referred or HIRED! This is the ideal of most marketing experts. Your greeting card is also a fabulous tool for business development and building relationships with serious prospects, clients and hiring companies. An added holiday sales tip: Job seekers: after your interview during the holidays, (any holiday) wish everyone a happy holiday as you leave the premises. Business people: purchase miniature candy bars for your appointments. Be generous. Bring candy for the receptionist, doorman and whomever else with whom you may come into contact. With a big smile, wish the recipient a wonderful holiday prior to beginning your appointment. These techniques build relationships and business beautifully, working wonders for your bottom line. For added insight on these tips, I included a great story about a Guard with guns at his side who scared the crap out of me once upon a time in my book, Nice Girls DO Get the Sale: Relationship Building That Gets Results. Additional career advice may be found in HIRED! How to Use Sales Techniques to Sell Yourself On Interviews. Author: Elinor Stutz, CEO Of Smooth Sale, LLC, International Speaker, Author and trainer strives to motivate and inspire her audiences and clients to achieving their own success.   Elinor authored the international best-selling book, “Nice Girls DO Get the Sale: Relationship Building That Gets Results” , Sourcebooks. It was featured in TIME Magazine and translated into several languages.   Her new book, HIRED! How to Use Sales Techniques to Sell Yourself On Interviews, Career Press, is available online and in major bookstores

After the Interview A Recent Experience University of Manchester Careers Blog

After the Interview A Recent Experience University of Manchester Careers Blog In the last month Ive had some interviews for full-time graduate roles  â€" two with a Manchester-based marketing agency and one for a graduate scheme at a PR agency in London. I thought Id share my experiences to help you think about how you could approach any interviews you have coming up. After the Interview If youre anything like me, youre an over-thinker and excessively analyse any situation. Its very easy to do this with interviews  â€" to beat yourself up about how long it took you to answer this question or how you should have shaken their hand more like that  â€" but it wont get you anywhere as youve done all that you can do in the interview itself. Reflect on your performance However, it is good to reflect a little on how you think you performed to help you better prepare for other interviews. For example, in my first interview with the Manchester-based company, I was caught out when I was asked how my current manager would describe me in five words. Although I managed to string a few adjectives together at the time that fit the company profile and job spec, afterwards I made sure to think about how I could answer that question more effectively if I was ever asked it again. In my interview with the London PR agency, I was asked which of their clients I would most like to work with. Cue the mental blank. I knew their clients  â€" Id researched and revised them  â€" but with the two PR professionals staring me down across the table, I just couldnt think of a decent answer. On the train home to Manchester, it occurred to me that one of their clients is related to my sports marketing career aspirations, and I kicked myself for not remembering that earlier. Once youve had a little think about what you could do better next time, set the interview aside for the time being and distract yourself with other things  â€" your studies, your current job, or any other applications or interviews you have to do  â€" until the employer chooses to get in touch. And rest assured, its very rare that someone comes out of an interview situation and says Yep, I absolutely smashed that. If the interviewers havent been in touch by the time that they said they would, its okay to drop them an email just to politely check if there have been any updates. And if youre offered the job? Well, thats up to you. (But you can find some advice on handling job offers here.) If youre not successful? Ask for feedback so you can prepare better for the next one. Sometimes you may have the right skills but youre just not the right fit for the company, and sometimes youll get that vibe yourself during your interview. All Applications and interviews Graduate Undergraduate Undergraduate-highlighted 2016 interview series Applications and interviews careers Graduate jobs Interviews job hunting reflect reflecting

What FWP Are You Trying to Solve - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

What FWP Are You Trying to Solve - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career Where FWP means First World Problem. If you arent solving a FWP you might be wasting your time. Sure, there are inventors and innovators out there making things you never knew you needed. Think iPod (and before that the Sony Walkman). But, for most people that are willing to spend their hard earned money they want solutions to First World Problems. Meaning problems that impact them directly. There is a negative connotation of what a First World Problem is too. However, I’m taking the tack that a FWP is anything that someone is willing to pay to obtain (or trade, depending upon transaction factors). They don’t need to be huge issues. But, if they are … that’s OK. Some will be grandiose: Providing a reliable solar electric panel in the form of a roof shingle (Elon Musk) Distributing mosquito nets in areas that are rife with malaria (Bill Gates) Balloon-Powered Internet For Everyone (Google’s Project Loon) Some will be purely utilitarian … and in being utilitarian they solve an immediate FWP. Even if you think that specific FWP being addressed is minor or non-existent there is a market for almost everything. Who knew we needed a self-wringing mop? Enter Joy Mangano … inventor of the Miracle Mop. In some senses you need to look no further than the infomercials: Who doesnt want to cook a whole chicken in half the time with no muss and no fuss? Doesnt everyone want to hang 500 things in the space they used to hang 10 in their closet? Why wouldnt you want to get a whole body workout in 14 minutes? These are sometimes comical examples, but the fact is they work. And, they sell. And, these are by some definitions perfect examples of First World Problems. Whether you will be the next property flipper or infomercial maven is up to you, but the key is … Look for First World Problems to solve. Then go out an solve them. When you do you will stand out in your career. You might even find that you have a few careers in you. And, in the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson …  the world will beat a path to your door.

10 Morning Habits That will 10x Your Productivity

10 Morning Habits That will 10x Your Productivity Photo Credit Pexels.comThink about this..When do you think you are the closest to your subconscious? Take a guess. Do you think it is in the middle of the day? Or before you go to bed?None of the above.evalIn fact, you probably have guessed it yourself due to the title of this post. The time you are closest to your subconscious is when you first wake up Feeling cloudy and slow every morning until you get out of the house? Starting up a good morning workout and stretching routine will help with that.Not only will it wake you up from a sleepy state, it will set you up to be laser focused for the next activity you take on. Since most of us go to work or school every morning, doing this before heading out will ensure you are in the right state Who else is up at 6, 5, or even 4 AM? As you wake up earlier, you will notice there will be much less distractions around you. This allows you to get the best personal quiet time which allows you to focus on all of the other habits on this list.To make the transition, I recommend waking up 15 minutes earlier than you typically do now, stay at that level for a week, then repeat. Do this until you achieve the perfect waking time for you.Oh, also.. Keep your sleep schedule steady. No matter if it’s Wednesday or Sunday, try going to sleep and waking up at the same time. Otherwise, your body will be confused, making it harder for you to wake up when Monday rolls around. Plus, your body hates you when you play games with it, knock that off!3. Eat the darn frog!If you haven’t heard this term before, it basically means get the hardest thing done first.evalWhatever you dread to do, don’t put it off. Instead, get it off the list first thing in your day and the rest of the day will not only seem easier, but it will also go a lot more productively 5. Fuel that motivationMotivation runs out just as fuel does in a gas tank. You need to continuously add to it, otherwise you will wake up clueless and without vision. And no, I don’t m ean literal vision smarty.Of course, you can only fill the tank up so much until it will begin to overflow. So get some, but not too much. Find what motivates you and do it every morning. Me personally, I like visualization I strongly recommend picking up an app like Headspace especially for any beginners out there.It is an easy, fun, and legitimate way to dive head first into some meditation. It offers both free and paid versions, both of which are great.Meditating in the morning with this app 9. Read a book (or 5)I find enjoyment in reading during the morning for two reasons:1: It helps me retain the information better. How you ask? Don’t you listen?! It’s because we are closer to our subconscious. On top of that, reading a factual book in the morning allows you to ponder and implement it throughout your day instead of reading and forgetting.2: There are far less distractions. And no, I don’t just mean people but also the mind. By the end of the day, our thoughts are running a mile a minute. In the morning, we are much more clear and able to focus on a boring white piece of paper for much longer than at night.Remember: Don’t be a read and forgetter, read in the morning and implement it into your day!10. Be gratefulThere are endless things to be grateful for, one of them being that you made it to today still alive. Another being that you have the whole rest of your day to work on your goals that you (hopefully) wrote down earlier.Being grateful and expressing it can take time to be intrinsic with, but work on it. If you don’t show any signs of it now, work on it. It will keep you in check with what you do during your day and that never hurts.ConclusionRemember the whole thing about being close to your subconscious in the morning? Don’t forget about that! It is what will keep you enticed to partake in all of the above habits throughout your morning. It surely (for me at least) gives you that extra added benefit of knowing that a morning routine is going to set up your day for greatest possible success and productivity.Before you go though, I want to ask one question of you:What new habits will you be taking from this list with you tomorrow morning?

Researching Employers - Hire Imaging

Researching Employers - Hire Imaging Why Research Information on Employers? There are two basic reasons to research employers: To aid you in your job search To help prepare you for your interview Researching an employer during your job search can help you determine more about that organization and your potential place in it. Some important information to look for includes what activities are carried out by the employer, how financially stable the employer is, and what types of jobs exist with the employer. Using available resources, you can gain a better understanding of what career potential exists with a particular employer. One approach to finding a job is to use a hierarchical strategy: Find industries that meet your needs. Locate employers within your targeted industries. Research information on executives. Preparing for an interview is essential for success! Before meeting your potential employer it is essential to know what they do; how they do it; their financial state (if they are expanding or downsizing); expectations of potential employees in terms of skill, education, and previous experience; and what you can offer them. Where Do You Find Information on Employers? The following types of resources (may include both Internet and print) should prove useful in your research. Annual Reports These reports and other materials are available from an organizations public relations/information office. Most large organizations produce a report, which presents an outline of the organizations successes, growth, history, goals, and financial status. Note: companies prepare two public reports: one for stockholders (Annual Report) and one for the Securities and Exchange Commission (10K Report). A 10-K report has less narrative but contains more comprehensive financial reporting. Directories These are geographic, business, occupational, professional, industry, and financial status directories available in your library. These directories may provide information about an organizations products or services, number of employees, principal executives, and location(s). Trade Associations These organizations produce membership directories, journals (which provide information about trends and issues in the field), and information briefs. They also hold annual conferences for your networking, information gathering, and professional development purposes. Remember, almost every type of field or industry that exists has a trade association affiliation (e.g., American Society of Interpreters, Museum Store Association, National Mental Health Association). Newspapers The business section of most papers contain numerous articles about local companies and their executives. Articles about non-profit organizations often appear in a newspapers local interest section. Fellow Professionals Other professionals in the field can provide word-of-mouth information about organizations of interest. Competitors Often an organizations competitors offer excellent insight about the inner working of that organization. Public Documents Government and quasi-government organizations have records that must be made available to the public.

Legal Resume Writing Tips - Get a Job Interview

Legal Resume Writing Tips - Get a Job InterviewThese legal resume writing tips are very useful especially if you want to get a good job interview. It will be much easier for you to convince your prospective employer about your worth if you have the right information at hand.The first tip is to make your resume not too short. The maximum word count should be between twenty to twenty-five words per page. If you really want to impress your interviewer, keep it short.Make sure that you are easy to read and understand. You should always remember that your resume will be the main item that will speak for you in the interview. In order to do this effectively, you should be able to concisely describe what you can do for your potential employer.The next tip is to create a list of important experiences, jobs, and awards. This list can serve as your resume cover letter.If you can show your employer that you have worked with high level in your career, this will definitely help in getting a great job interview. However, there are those who will only look for the qualifications in your resume. It is a fact that employers will prefer a person who is smart and someone who has a good name, but the ones who are smart but not have a good name will be rejected.Your resume will also help you if you get a job interview. In fact, this is just an added advantage in case you are a job seeker.Remember that the resume that you will be submitting is your one opportunity to impress the employer. So make sure that you have put the most relevant and attractive material on your resume.Finally, when it comes to career development, remember that you can choose a job and skills that you want to focus on. It is your career as well.