Archive for the ‘ Preparation ’ Category
Are You Explaining or Selling?
It is interesting the difference if you take just 10 seconds to consider the difference. I speak with literally hundreds of people on a weekly basis and have the opportunity to ask a lot of the same questions during my initial “exploratory” interviews. Some of the responses would amaze you if you thought about it. [...]
How to Deal with a 50% Unemployment Rate
Which side are you on? Picking on the younger generation for a minute…in Europe 40% of people between the ages of 16 – 24 are unemployed. In the US, it is even worse. Over 50% of people ages 16 – 24 are without a job. So again I ask you…what side are you on? WHY? [...]
Networking: How 283.5 People Landed a Job
Two types of networking…in-person and online. So in-person networking quite frankly is awkward and kinda sucks actually. Let me tell you that in my career, it is my job to observe people and the interactions amongst them. We have all heard, read and maybe even lived the fact that networking is the best way to [...]
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 [...]
3 Myths About Finding a Job in Today’s Market
There are at least 17,248 myths that I can randomly pop off the top of my head about finding a job in today’s ever changing job landscape. I decided to narrow that down to three for palatability. Whether you are seeking a job as a sales person, creative or search marketing professional, direct response guru [...]
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 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 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 [...]