A Hire Calling

anditsonlytuesday:

2. Your Persona

Listen to and look at yourself in action. How do you speak? Uh, um (fillers)…what do you say? Are you distracting with hand and facial gestures (twirling your hair; stroking your beard)? Do you stand erect? Or are you a slump-er. People make judgments and it’s hard to overcome them with a stellar resume. Be the person you want to hire by taking notice and changing/improving what you can.

4. Anything Too Personal: Someone on Twitter said that they’d never want to hear, “What does your wife look like”.  Exactly!  When a recruiter/interviewer gets a bit out of line, you can expect it’s like that throughout the organization.

7.  ”I really don’t like it here”: If they mention anything negative about their job, then it’s time to go.

Despite having more than a few people put in a word for me over the years, it turns out that every full-time job I’ve ever gotten has had zero to do with networking, having connections, knowing someone who knows someone, etc.

mycollegesandcareers:

2. Apply to fewer jobs. When you need a job, it’s easy to shotgun your resume in 100 different directions. And that is exactly why the stack of resumes is so high for that job you want. Everyone is sending out the same resume to every job they can find. Slow down. Focus on a few jobs that you actually want. Then tailor everything about your application to each specific job.

3. You’re interviewing them too. Your goal should be to find a job that you actually care about and a company that you want to be a part of. If you focus on jobs like that, then the interview will be much better. You’ll be genuinely engaged. You’ll ask more questions because you’re interested and not because “that’s what you’re supposed to do in an interview.” Plus — and here’s a crazy bonus — if you only apply to jobs that you look interesting, then you aren’t going to end up in a job that you never actually wanted. Sort of makes you wonder why you’re applying to a bunch of jobs that you aren’t going to enjoy, right?

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Asked to recall the weirdest, most unforgettable job interview blunders they’ve seen, human resources executives and hiring managers came up with some doozies, including these:

• “The candidate bounced up and down on my carpet and told me I must be highly thought of by the company because I was given such thick carpeting.”
• “One applicant took a brush out of my purse, brushed his hair with it, and left.”
• “A job seeker told me that, if I didn’t hire her, she would have her grandmother put a curse on me.”

With employers being flooded with candidates for any job they post, it’s more important than ever to make sure you understand how your behavior may look on the other side of the hiring desk. Here are my top five pet peeves that I see over and over from job applicants.

Via WetFeet