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“Tell Me About Yourself:” The 25 Toughest Interview Questions (and tips on how to answer them!)
This list of interview questions is a handy reference for job search interview advice, whether you’re an interviewer or a job candidate.
Personally, I don’t like these interview questions much. But, as a job candidate you should be prepared to answer them effectively.
Among the 25 most difficult interview questions are the following:
“Tell me about [...]
When In Rome, What Do You Do?
You have certainly heard the old cliche “When in Rome, do as the Romans.” But, what do the Romans, Greeks, or others “do” that you should “do?”
More important, sometimes, when dealing with persons from other cultures, is to avoid doing that which you are NOT supposed to do.
Recently, I had a posting about CQ [...]
Advice on Keeping Your Corporate Job Without Losing Your Soul
Can you be true to yourself, stick up for what you think is right, and keep a corporate job?
A recent Business Week column answers affirmatively — if cautiously.
The problems of conscience it considers include those involving the impact of corporate decisionmaking on people, often other employees:
That layoff last month — did we handle that [...]
St. Patrick’s Day Friday Semi-Humorous Career Tips
Happy St. Patrick’s Day one and all!
Usually it’s Michael who’s trying to get you to laugh Friday morning. Today I have a couple of career tip articles that try to appeal to a certain type of sarcastic sense of humor, while still making serious points.
(Oops, I just realized Michael beat me to the punch [...]
Unemployed or Looking to Change Jobs? Some Hopeful Job Market News and Interview Tips
Looking over my latest e-clippings, I found I had saved a number of items about signs of a job market healthier in many respects than some may fear, and also some with practical tips useful to job seekers.
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Beyond the Gold Watch and Employee of the Month: Reflections on Employee Recognition Programs
Today, for a change, I’m writing an original post inspired by personal experience and observation, not by my daily Internet news reading.
The other day, my wife and I were guests at the annual meeting of the insurance company for which her brother Dave has worked as an agent for twenty years.
Dave was one of six [...]
Is Your Company A Target for A Discrimination Class Action Suit? Ten Factors to Consider
We have followed a number of large, well-publicized employment discrimination class-action cases, such as Wal-Mart, Best Buy, among others.
Most attorneys and HR managers have heard of these kinds of cases, and unless you work in a small company, you must sometimes have bad dreams about such an employment discrimination lawsuit being filed against your [...]
All Aboard: Five Tips for Successful On-Boarding Programs (f/k/a Employee Orientation)
Another solid article from ERExchange.com on On-Boarding Programs. This time, the author, Kevin Wheeler, offers five solid tips for success with regard to such programs.
On-boarding programs (f/k/a employee orientation), I believe, are one of the current hot fads in HRM, but they make a great deal of sense to me as I remember [...]
Getting Applicants to Join: Marketing Your Company
In another nicely written article on erexchange, Howard Adamsky explains the key points to cover in convincing candidates to come work at your organization.
I don’t think that there is anything earthshattering here, but the article provides a nice summary, along with examples, of some key points to mention in “selling” your organization.
The key points to [...]
Does Your Organization Pass Muster on Ethical Standards?
Lots of talk these days about ethics in the workplace, so it’s not surprising that there are are a number of websites and surveys devoted to ethics in the workplace.
I found one interesting website on ethics, the Ethics Resource Center, that has lots of good materials available.
Most interesting to me were the results [...]
Follow-Up Reference to Reference Checks: A Summary
Reference checks will always be a topic of discussion. As a follow-up to my previous posting on reference checking , I note the following summary from a different article, this one much shorter, on the pros and cons of reference checking.
On the negative side (and I don’t think there will be any big surprises here), [...]
Even More on the OFCCP Internet Applicant Definition
You may be getting abit overwhelmed with all of the amount of material on the OFCCP’s definition of an Internet applicant. Here comes some more information, this time a series of Q and As from a widely-respected law firm Ogletree Deakins. Look, you might find an answer to YOUR pressing question there!
Everything You Wanted to Know About Reference Checking And Didn’t Know Where to Ask
Reviews a free document on reference checking, which covers the why, how, and whom of reference checking. While you may not agree with everything in this document, it does provide a great deal of useful information.
Think You Are Unbiased? You May Be Wrong!
According to some relatively new research, hidden or “implicit” discriminatory bias may be far more common than we thought. Even so, with proper training, people with implicit biases can learn to hold their biases in check and avoid violating employment discrimination laws.
This research shows that most of the bias (70%) is targeted against African-Americans. [...]
From the Other Side of the Fence: The Impact of the OFCCP Internet Applicant Regs on Job Hunting
Have you thought about how the new OFCCP regs on internet applicants will affect job hunters? This article has a number of hints for job hunters!
