by Joe Stein | Interviewing
With the advent of behavior based interviewing and other like methods, interviewers have tried to expose the hiring process to more objective criteria and decision-making. The reality, however, is that most of why someone gets hired after an interview is still rooted...
by Joe Stein | Interviewing
One of the biggest complaints I hear from job seekers is the length of time the hiring process sometimes takes. You would think (with the tight labor market) employers would not delay, but that is often not the case. It is also natural for a candidate to be a little...
by Joe Stein | Interviewing
Nerves, if not managed properly, can prove fatal to an individual’s job search, especially during the interview. It is a given that not everyone is the best communicator, especially when facing the nerve-inducing stress of being questioned for a new job. There are...
by Joe Stein | Interviewing
There are many questions that an interviewer might present to you during the course of an interview. While perhaps not the most frequently asked, a common question revolves around wanting you to talk about a mistake that you have made in your career and how it was...
by Joe Stein | Interviewing
It is common to hear from Hiring Managers about how close the finalists were for an open position. Often, the feedback is that their job experience and related education were similar to each other. The differentiator was what is commonly referred to as a “soft skill”,...
by Joe Stein | Interviewing
Outline the For most Job Seekers, the focus is solely on finding a position that you hope to stay at for a long-term. Of course, in today’s world, the definition of long-term has changed from “having the same job to retirement” towards something that would probably be...
