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10 Quick Phone Interview Tips
Phone interviews can be tough. Experts suggest that 70% of all human communication is non-verbal. Body language, eye to eye contact, physical touch (handshake, etc) dress, facial expressions, etc. With the lack of visual communication, you must be able to rely on auditory feedback and be disciplined enough to keep focus. With the following phone [...]
Marketing Interview Comments – Do people really?
People actually say crazy and hilarious things on interviews. I ask many of my fellow recruiters and hiring authorities about responses and comments that they heard when interviewing unfortunately intelligent marketing professionals. Random Responses: “I’m not wanted in this state.” “How many young girls work here?” “I didn’t steal it; I just borrowed it” “You [...]
How To Answer The Interview Question: “Why should we hire you?”
“Why should we hire you?” This can be a tough question to answer as you do not want to come across over confident (or cocky) but you want to answer it with strong words to show confidence that you are the person for the position. What is the motive of the interviewer? The interviewer wants [...]
How to Answer Interview Question: “What do you do in your spare time?”
What do you do in your spare time? What is the motive behind this question? I do not see this as a guaranteed interview question and is not used by many however it is one that I personally love to ask. It really helps me determine what type of person and potential advantages or disadvantages [...]
How to Answer the Interview Question: “What are your weaknesses?”
What are your weaknesses? “My weaknesses? Are you kidding me? I really can’t think of any, I just don’t have weaknesses.” That is probably not the best response but wouldn’t that be awesome to try? I mean just once. Like always in the series, “Top Interview Questions for Creative Marketing Jobs” the first question we [...]
How to Answer the Interview Questions: “What are your top strengths?”
Ahhh…the classic interview question, “What are your top strengths?” There are several versions of this question however they fall around the word strengths. Some people ask for “three strengths”, some ask for “things you do well” From my experience you will generally receive this question from Human Resources. You will probably not hear it from [...]
How to Answer the Interview Question: “What is your management style?”
“What is your management style?” As always, what is the motive behind the questioning? This is a person favorite of mine and over the years I have heard three of four different responses repeated over and over. There is no real motive for the hiring authority (whether it is the Group Creative Director, Chief Creative [...]
How to Answer the Interview Question: “How hands on are you?”
What is the motive of the interviewer with this question…”How hands on are you?” Interview questions like this are more introspective into your attitude versus the actual words coming out of your mouth. This is more of a question for Your attitude would answer if you are a team player…if you are “too big” for [...]
How to Answer Interview Question: “What is the most creative thing you have done?”
“What is the most creative thing that you have done?” What is the motive of this question? Keep in mind when answering an interview question, a hiring authority has something specific in mind. They want to see if #1 you are actually a creative thinker #2 if what you do is actually creative #3 can [...]
How to Answer the Interview Question: “Tell me about yourself”
One of the most common interview, ice breaking questions is…“Tell me about yourself.” Unfortunately a common question like this can easily throw someone off their game. Somewhat harmless type of questioning that the interviewer truly does not really even think about asking. It is only a question to get conversation flowing. Regardless of the motives [...]