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What I have done is expand my vision about how this blog can add value to the readership that has steadily grown over the last few months. This blog will help you master the job search and interview process. I will talk about how to effectively prepare for your next interview. I will talk about preparation and planning for an interview, the actual interview, questions and answers and what to do after the interview is over. I will tackle tough questions that must be asked and answered in an interview. I will discuss my thoughts on great questions, and bad questions. And I will also give my thoughts about how you should answer those questions, even the bad questions need an answer if they are asked during the course of an interview. This blog will also share tips for hiring managers. I will share my thoughts on how to hire the best candidate for the job. Interviewing tips and quips that will help managers teach and train others in their organization to be effective interveiwers. I would love to hear about your best and worst interveiw. Write in and share your story. I will select some to share right here on the blog so we can learn from one another. I welcome your suggestions, your challenges and your input. When you are interviewing for a job, there should be a constant dialog between you and the person or people conducting the interview - Interview Chatter.
Original Air Date: 8/18/2007 3:00 PM UTC
Original Air Date: 8/11/2007 1:00 PM UTC
Date / Time: 8/11/2007 10:55 AM UTC
The real objective of a technology tool is to have something that helps manage everything about a career — contacts, relationships, job searches, interviews, building great answers to tough questions(!) and enabling a place to build tasks for your “personal brand.” In short, we need a tool for career management. Fortunately, there is one: JibberJobber.com.
Born just over a year ago, the tool was built from the ground up with one objective in mind: give all of us the tools necessary to manage our careers. Think of it as a hub, giving you the tools to manage all aspects of your career (except delivery…which is up to you, of course). JibberJobber even has an interface to import your contacts from LinkedIn because LinkedIn is just one small aspect of your total career management. I also use JibberJobber, but have found it to be much more comprehensive than simpler contact linking programs.
<strong>A tool such as JibberJobber.com overcomes the career management limitations of a contact linking tool:</strong>
<blockquote>1. You can build action items for today relating to your job search, your personal brand, or follow-up to contact people in your network.2. You can target companies where you want to work.3. You can use tools to prepare yourself for interviews — getting that elevator speech with your value proposition down cold. Preparing great answers to tough questions.4. You can track jobs you have applied for and have follow-up items for each.5. You can, of course, enter in your contacts and personal information about them.6. You can even enter in who contacts were referred from so that you can have reports that show you “degrees of separation” of the contacts in your world.7. And the information is private and no one else has to join JibberJobber just to be part of your network.</blockquote>
Regardless of your tool choices for career management — and a case can be made for any different tool — the importance of managing our network is more critical than ever. Corporations relentlessly downsize, outsource and reorganize. The people that we work with are constantly moving to other positions in other companies, states and countries.
Managing these relationships to stay connected is critical for our career management.
Original Air Date: 7/21/2007 1:00 PM UTC
Date / Time: 7/21/2007 11:37 AM UTC
by Darlene McDaniel on July 16th, 2007
Is there such a thing as too honest? Well, some of you may think there is, but I don’t. There are not varying degrees. Either you are honest or you are not. Either you are telling the truth or you are not. Pretty black and white.
I was reading an article this evening by Penelope Trunk, called When writing a resume, don’t be too honest . The title got my attention. But the article got me writing.
Here is a direct quote from her article, “The advice, “Don’t lie on your resume” is useless. If you don’t know lying is bad then you’re not qualified for any job. The problem is that most issues of resume truth are not so black and white.”
The first part of this paragraph, I agree, wholeheartedly! As I stated in my post earlier today, Do You Dare Lie? No one should have to tell you not to lie.
I completely disagree with Penelope Trunk on the latter part this paragraph. Either a lie is a lie or its not. Either the statement is true or it is false. I have included the next part of her opening paragraph.
“A well-written resume to one person is a pack of lies to another. Make sure yours falls somewhere in between, which is no small feat. We all know there is such a thing as stretching the truth too much. But there is also such a thing as being too honest.”
I will say it again, either what you are writing in your resume is true or false, period. Stretching the truth is a lie. How can Penelope Trunk or anyone else for that matter say that what you write on the resume should “fall somewhere in between.” What is that? Where is that? And who defines that?
The definition of a lie is making a false statement. A deceptive statement is a lie. Stretching the truth is a lie. If the middle is stretching, than it is a lie too. Period.
Here is an example of stretching the truth that Penelope Trunk gave in her article.
“My 21-year-old brother, Erik, worked summers at Blockbuster Video where, predictably, none of the mostly-teenaged employees followed company rules. In a fit of productivity my brother rearranged the displays to be in line with the standards sent from company headquarters. At the same time, store sales increased ten percent. So (as the family resume writer) I wrote on his resume, “Assumed responsibility for in-store marketing and increased sales 10%.” At a family dinner, we passed around Erik’s resume. (Yes, we do this in our family.) My 34-year-old brother, Mike, said, “Are you kidding me? This is such crap. No one will believe this.” Erik kept that line in his resume, and he explained and supported it well when challenged in interviews. Recently, he landed a job at an investment bank.”
Please feel free to read her article in its entirety. I want to know if I am the only one who has a problem with the first part of this article.
Date / Time: 7/18/2007 12:26 AM UTC
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