So, you are ready to leave your current employer’s toxic work environment. You’ve put your resume out there, gotten interest. You’re in your interview and the interviewer inevitably asks, “Why do you want to leave your current employer?” You know that the number one reason is that the work environment is toxic. It is full …
So, how do you overcome a weakness during an interview? The answer is, you don’t overcome a weakness during the interview. You start working your strategy to overcome that weakness, long before the interview. For example, if you are a forgetful person, do like I do. I make checklists. I also set appointments and flags …
When we accept a contingent job offer and enter the pre-employment background check stage, we often get a little nervous. Our worst violation of the law may be a speeding ticket from twenty years ago. That doesn’t stop uncertainty from creeping in, though. So, exactly what do employers learn about us during pre-employment background checks? …
So, in the not-too-distant past, employers typically only used telephone interviews to screen job applicants and narrow their candidate pool. Then, fast-forward to a world-wide pandemic, and what happened? Employers had to rethink their selection process, and subsequently, many have now changed the objective of their telephone interviews. Lets look at four of those changes. …
When You Have an Interview Tomorrow We’ve all been there. We get an invitation to interview…tomorrow. Or, we get an invitation to interview two weeks out. Then, the reality of juggling work, family, and an active job search at the same time sets in. Before we know it, our big interview is less than twenty-four …