How to Handle the Question of Where Else You’re Looking
An email correspondent poses an interesting query: Why do potential employers sometimes ask in interviews if you are looking elsewhere? And what should you say? I have found — and other recruiters agree — that there is often interest expressed by hiring managers about where job candidates are in their hunt. This is often justified; [...]
How to Interview with Confidence
Job interviews are up there with meeting the prospective in-laws, taking the SAT (especially if you haven’t prepared) and parallel-parking on a hill in a driver’s test with life’s truly nerve-wracking experiences. So much is on the line and yet so much is out of your hands — the interviewer’s personality and mood, the details [...]
How to Handle that Deafening Silence
One of the most frustrating aspects of a job hunt can be waiting to hear back from a prospective employer. While most applicants recognize that they may never hear anything after sending in a resume or making initial contact, one expects that a hiring manager will get back to them — one way or another [...]
How To Have a Successful Informational Interview
A job hunter recently sent me this email: “People tell me I should set up informational interviews with companies I’m interested in. But I thought those were for people just starting out; as a mid-career person, should I be bothering with what is essentially a practice round?” The answer is definitely; informational interviews aren’t just [...]
It’s Not Only What You Say But How You Say It
Just as a professional appearance is crucial in making that all-important first impression in an interview or networking situation, so is one’s speech. Yet recruiters report that candidates who do everything else right often mumble, swallow their words, ramble or otherwise mangle their speech so much that the interviewer is distracted from the importance of [...]
How to Handle the Unprepared Interviewer
When preparing for an interview, job candidates usually worry that they won’t be prepared enough, will be nervous or won’t know what questions to ask. Sometimes, though, the proverbial shoe is on the other foot — and it’s the interviewer who hasn’t read your resume or materials, stammers because of nervousness or doesn’t seem to [...]
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