Darrin Grella – Interview Guru

I’ve said this a hundred times before, the interview is actually not about you.  Once that concepts sinks in, then you are very close to better mastering the interview process.  This is a huge secret that most people may realize but it doesn’t effect their interview style at all. Its just like buying a tread [...]

Since this is not necessary any breaking news, some of you may have seen this sweet youtube video by now, actually over 893,800 views as of the time of this post.  Not quite a video resume but it is simply done right. The title is called The Google Job Experiment.  Basically a smart guy was [...]

I subscribe to Success Magazine.  Believe me, I need it.  It is a great subscription but the easy part is that it comes with a CD for audio enjoyment. In this month’s CD it had an exclusive interview with Don Hutson, Speaker, Sales Trainer, Motivator and Author of the One Minute Entrepreneur.  One of Don’s main [...]

I need your help…more importantly, your opinion Many of you have heard about the release of my upcoming book, “The 10 Key Interviewing TECHNIQUES“  It has been in the development now for 2 1/2 years and it is now only just a few short weeks away from hitting the bookshelves.  If you haven’t heard yet, [...]

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 [...]

Yesterday I had the pleasure and opportunity to be part of a panel for the Linked In group, Cleveland Professionals in Transition. I had the pleasure of fielding what I thought to be a very consistent voice of job seekers with three other great panelist. Sue Ann Naso, President – Staffing Solutions Enterprises, Shannon Cross, [...]

Here is a quick update on the book, “The 10 Key Interviewing T.E.C.H.N.I.Q.U.E.S.” For the last year we have been working on getting the 120+pages of fun and informative interviewing techniques and tips from a manuscript into a published real live book. I can’t wait for this to be released to the general public. There [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]