Next Paul Brown Friendswood Interview
By Paul Brown Friendswood | August 1, 2010
Guaranteeing the Next Interview
Next Paul Brown Friendswood Interview By Rick H McKnight.
In today’s economy job interviews are fewer and farther between so when you have one, is there a way to guarantee an offer or at least getting the next interview? The answer is yes and I have proved it. I have had offers on each of my last 5 job interviews. All of those involved multiple interviews for fairly senior positions. I learned that after one set of interviews that turned into a job offer that I was the first interviewee of 32. This article is about how to use some of the concepts that I have used in your own interview process. There are really only three.
People hire people they like. The fact that you have an interview means that your resume opened the door or that you networked into the situation or the recruiter put you in the mix for the position. The chances are very high that you have the skills and experience that they are looking for since you were called in for the interview. Now it is a question of do you fit in to their culture. Do you have similar characteristics as the people interviewing you? Do they like you?
So the question is how do you get people who do not know you to like you when you may have only half an hour to an hour? The answer is that you have to genuinely care about the person that is interviewing you. This gives you the perspective that you are there to help them make a very important decision-who to hire. If the person who is interviewing you gets the sense that you are more interested in helping them make the right decision than you are of getting an offer it helps them accept that you are not just selling them on you. Interviewing is about sales and sales is about having people understand that you are not selling them. The difference is subtle. Yet profound. If you really care about the person would you have them hire you even if you were the wrong person for the job?
How do you actually do this? Number one is that you have to lose the self-concern, nervousness, and anxiety about how you answer their questions. How do you do this? Preparation. This means you have to know what is important to them so you can anticipate their questions. Read the job description carefully, use your network to find out what the company is like, who the hiring manager is and what is her perspective. What does the website tell you about the company. Talk to customers of the company. So doing all of this makes you better prepared for the interview and it gives you confidence. Confidence allows you to calmly listen to the question, respond to the question with your own question when needed and to show some enthusiasm. I was in an interview for a career consulting position and at the end the hiring manager said to me, “I don’t know much about you, but you are my number one candidate”. Hearing that helped me go through the next 4 interviews, do a public workshop and group coaching session before, finally the job offer came through.
The other element of preparation that many people miss is the mental preparation. This is vital. What this involves is taking some minutes to visualize the outcome that you desire. Close your eyes, breathe deeply and see yourself calmly chatting with the interviewer. See the interviewer warming up to you. See her smiling and the rapport build. At the end watch her shake your hand and invite you to the next stage. Involved all of the senses that you can in this visualization as they make it more real. You can do this the night before the interview and right before it as well. If you calmly say to yourself that you are going to get an offer and know this to be the case, this is what will happen. The interview that I mentioned where they were interviewing 32 others, I told myself that I was going to land this position and I saw if happening in my mind clearly before the interview. I was asked to prepare with a role play for the interview and before that started, I asked the interviewers (a panel) if they were prepared to make a decision today. When they said that they weren’t, I stood up and suggested that we do this another time. They immediately said that they were prepared to make a decision. It takes a lot of confidence to threaten to walk out of an interview but it also can create a lot of desire on the part of the interviewer to keep you there. Shortly thereafter I was asked to come for a lunch and was given an offer.
Confidence, preparation and caring are the cornerstones of having a great interview.
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Top Paul Brown Friendswood Career Advice
By Paul Brown Friendswood | July 29, 2010
Top Career Advice – More Choices and A Better Way of Life
Top Paul Brown Friendswood Career Advice By Roger Clark.
Why Career Advice Is So Important
Choosing a career presents a nerve-racking decision, as it can have a life-long impact on you. Do not fret, as you can gain a clearer outlook into your future by thorough career planning.
Having a clear vision of the future can guide you by helping you set career goals and helping you on your way towards attaining them. Whether you are starting out on a new career or looking to change your current career, you will benefit enormously from taking sound advice.
Don’t Spend Most of Your Life Doing …
Chances are that you will be spending a great deal of time at your job, about 40 hours a week. Career advice and career profiling can guide you to a job that is enjoyable for you and matches your interests.
There are many reasons people change their careers and career advice can help them along the way. Some frequently cited reasons are:
· Stuck in a dead end job.
· Lost interest in current line of work.
· Gained a new interest in a different career option.
A Job For Life … Not Anymore
In today’s world, there is increased job rotation … also with the down turns in the economy, many people can be laid-off.
Good career advice for unemployed persons would be to consider a career change. Some of the fastest growing occupations are Medical Assistant, Network Systems Analyst, Physician Assistant, etc. Occupations that are struggling to gain workers can be a suitable option for currently unemployed individuals.
People often back off from changing careers if they are unsure of the effort it might take to start a new career and learn a new trade. If you are one of these people, career advice from professionals can help you make a knowledgeable decision.
How To Identify Your Career Choices
When choosing a new career field, career advice and career planning can help you figure out your career choices. When embarking on a new career, you need to take into account your previous education and work experience.
You should start thinking about the skills you currently possess and how they can be beneficial in each of the new career options available to you.
Have You Considered a Career Test?
Valuable career advice can come from career tests as they can help in identifying suitable job options. Career tests include tests such as personality profiling, leadership skills, motivation, management style, etc.
The results of such tests can give you the career advice that can direct you to a suitable career, by matching your interests with career options.
Many career tests are offered online. They may be free or available for a small fee. Many experts provide the career advice to employment seekers to take some time to plan their career and set their goals. Knowing your career goals can provide you with valuable guidance.
Remember that career planning and goal setting is an on-going process, changing as you continue on your career.
The web can be a great source to find valuable career advice. It can provide you with many resources to research new career choices and find out information on a particular career field such as average salary, work environment, job responsibilities, etc.
Use Resumes That Give You an Advantage
Whether you are starting a career, changing careers or looking for a different job in your present career, the best career advice is to have a great, eye-catching resume.
You may be thinking about using your old resume, maybe the one you made after graduating from college. However, you will have to make changes to that resume to make it relevant to your present situation.
Upgrade your resume with the additional skills and experiences you have acquired. People going through a career change, need to present the skills they have acquired through the years in a way that makes it relevant to the new career jobs for which they are applying.
You may not have all the standard education for that career, so you need to convince potential employers that your previous education and work experience have given you the skills that make you a suitable candidate to transition into that job.
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Proactive Paul Brown Friendswood Career
By Paul Brown Friendswood | July 28, 2010
Proactive Career Management
Proactive Paul Brown Friendswood Career By P Joseph.
So there stands before all of us a terrific opportunity here surely! If the majority of people are reactive about managing their careers, both generally and within the organization that they themselves work for, then if can we learn to be more proactive about the development and management of our own career, thus moving closer to the 5 per cent proactive category, then we will achieve competitive advantage and ultimately more success with our career achievements? The answer to this question of course is YES.
So how is this done? Well just the same as if we are to stand any chance of being successful with our exercise, diet and leisure time over a sustainable period of time, we need to initiate disciplines that empower us to achieve these goals. Finding the right exercise plan, dietary guide, or leisure schedule is an important part of identifying this discipline because we need to empathize with it, believe in it and trust it. Consider therefore the following mechanisms that would need to be in place in order for us to become more proactive about developing and implementing a successful career plan:
PERSONAL OBJECTIVE To research and develop a clear personal career objective which is SMART and which is based upon your own core skills, experience and interests.
PERSONAL ANALYSIS The ancient Greeks thought self-knowledge so crucial that they had the phrase “Know Yourself” carved above their temple entrances.
JOB PROFILING To research and develop your ideal job profile so that there is a clear and detailed outline plan for the job which you should ideally be targeting in the short-term (1 year) the medium-term (2-5 years) and the long-term (6-10 years).
COMPANY ANALYSIS To research and develop a detailed company analysis based either upon your current employer or a proposed future employer. You need to understand more about your employer’s organization and how it works.
CORPORATE POLITICS To understand more about the politics within your employer’s organization and how to use this knowledge to your career advantage by being a more proactive political player.
INDUSTRY ANALYSIS To research and develop a detailed industry analysis based upon either the current industry you are working in, or a proposed future industry. You need to understand more about your target industry and how it works.
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT All proactive employees should allocate at least 10 per cent of their time towards ongoing personal self-development. The objective here is to enable you to ensure that your personal development objectives are clearly aligned with your career strategy.
IMAGE MANAGEMENT How we perceive ourselves is not necessarily how others perceive us. The objective here is to enable you to ensure that your image is clearly aligned with your career strategy.
EMPLOYEE RELATIONS To you to be more proactive about the way in which you develop and manage both the corporate and personal relationships which you have with your peers, superiors and subordinates.
INTEGRITY MANAGEMENT Integrity takes a long time to establish. However it can be lost in just a few minutes. The objective here is to enable you to have more control over the way in which you develop and manage your integrity.
SUCCESS MANAGEMENT Success is measured in different ways by different people. The objective here is to enable you to establish clear critical career success factors (CCSF) and to ensure that you achieve these career successes.
PARALLEL CAREERS All successful people plan parallel careers regardless of their vocation. There is no exception to this rule unless we are depending upon luck. The objective here is to enable you to become a proficient and successful parallel career planner.
You will not only need processes which enable you to develop each of the above career mechanisms, but you will also need ongoing support and guidance from qualified and experienced career counseling tutors or mentors to ensure that your motivation, dedication and commitment are not compromised at any stage. There also needs to be a quality standard to adhere to so that you can be confident that you are doing all that you can. For example, if there was not a recognized football league, how would teams possibly know whether they were progressing forward or falling backwards in terms of performance?
If this all seems like a lot of hard work to you, or of it seems like too much effort will be required, then the Post-Graduate Certificate in Career Management Strategy (CCMS) is probably not for you. In reality it only requires 10 per cent of your time in terms of commitment on an ongoing basis. Indeed all students are engaged in full-time employment while studying. If you are excited by the prospect of having more control over the development of your career then the Post-Graduate Certificate in Career Management Strategy (CCMS) is likely to constitute the best self-development financial investment that you are ever likely to make.
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