WHO'S INTERVIEWING YOU TODAY? IS IT LARRY, CURLY OR MOE??
IT TAKES more than intelligence, credentials and experience to get the job these days. It takes EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE (EQ) TO ACE THE 'NEW' INTERVIEW. (and we're here to help)
Talked to anyone lately who's had a job interview? Maybe it was you. The average employee in the US today changes jobs every 18-24 months, so there's a lot of job interviewing going on, yet you go for your interview, like my client Anne did, and the interview is "suspicious" that you've been "job hopping" -- like you wanted to, couldn't hold a job, or it was unusual.
Anne's had a lot of jobs, yes. First she got laid off. Then she got downsized. Safe at last, she thought, and then her manager died after a year, there was a consolidation and she was out on the streets again. Six months into her next job, her husband's company folded and they had to move with he got a job in another state.
Does this sound familiar? It's happening a lot and it isn't your fault!!
Most clients tell me the questions are getting "strange" and they're hearing "hidden agenda."
That's why I've written "Acing the 'New' Interview," with insider information.
No, it's not the same old interview. There are a lot of questions aimed at emotional intelligence, flight risk, litigiousness, and mental stability.
Interviewers are being glibly "trained" to interview for mental stability and "people skills," and "ability to get along" in a 4-hour seminar, and so they sit down with their list, which they barely understand, and proceed to ask a bunch of canned questions in language that is frankly peculiar.
You may face a cute 30 year old with pink hair who can't even pronounce the words she's reading from a list and whose jargon is so thick and heavy, it's like a foreign language.
In this ebook, which is gleaned from client interviews, and interviews with actual hirers (including one who was drunk, at a cocktail party, and very uninhibited about sharing his "killer" questions and the rationale behind them), we:
- Demystify the process
- Explain precisely what it is they fear
- What they're looking for - what they hope you DO, and what they hope you DON'T do
- How they get around the questions that are illegal to ask, because they're going to ask them (and what you should do)
- Under what circumstances you should refuse to answer, and how
- How to handle it if you've had to file bankruptcy
- What their notion of a "healthy person" is and how to appear that way, in other words how top recognize the questions, what's behind them, and how to answer them, precisely.
- Examples of some of the worst questions we've heard
- How to stay in the safe zone when need be, and how to know when to go there
- How to answer impossible questions like "team player but works well alone"
- How to specifically answer landmines like, "describe a colleague you didn't get along with and what you did about it" (yikes!)
- What to wear to an interview when the company is 24/7 "casual"
- What to do when you get one of those "Are you still beating your wife?" questions
- How to figure out when you land in a new culture - many of us move to a new state, halfway across the country, or even a new country, and have to rush right off to an interview
- Dealing with multi-cultural -- how do you deal with theirs, how do you deal with yours
- How to say it without saying it
- What to do with the innuendos
- How not to take the bait and it will be thrown to you, you can count on that -- in other words, what used to be called "trick questions," but that's a mild term compared to what's going on today
- How to 'save' an interviewer who is clearly in over her or his head
- The things you must never say
- The thing you must always say
- 3 people there? 6? Who do you play to?
- How to tell them they aren't making any sense without offending them
- What an employee lawyer would want you to know
- And more!
No holds barred! We want you to get the job. Step-by-step intructions on how to survive and thrive. We want to lead you through what has become a maze of jargon, traps, and confusing questions thrown at you by disorganized and incompetent interviewers.
Order HERE. It's $49.99 and packed with information. It' hot off the press with all the latest.
When you read this book you'll laugh, you'll cry, but we want you to ace the interview and get the job.
Do it now. Chances are you'll need it before 2 years is up.
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