Lights, camera, video job interview – Part 2 According to a 2015 survey by Software Advice, candidates and interviewers with experience using video interviewing prefer this method over phone interviews. Don’t let the ease of arranging video interviews lull you into a false sense of security. This is still an interview. Every interview requires preparation, […]
The picture in your mind of a job interview has the candidate on one side of a desk and the hiring manager on the other side in an office with the door closed. But that picture is changing. More than 60% of human resource managers and recruiters conduct job interviews via video especially for remote […]
Every time you leave the house in the morning you know where you want to go. You have a plan. You have a goal with a plan that guides your steps and gives you direction. Otherwise you just wander around! Makes sense, right? Then it also makes sense that every job seeker needs a plan. […]
I didn’t mean to hurt anyone’s feelings. It was a bad joke. I did not intentionally say something stupid. But I did. I was in an important meeting and a really stupid thing slipped out while I was trying to be funny. I hurt someone’s feelings. I did not even realize it until later when […]
Consider the squirrel. One day as I was driving to work a squirrel ran out in front of me. He was quite a ways ahead of me but I could see him clearly. He was about halfway across the street when he stopped and stood up on his back legs and looked at me. As […]
Heard on the street: “Should I include a cover letter with my online application?” “Will you read my cover letter to be sure it is right?” “Is my cover letter holding me back?” I get these questions a lot. The answer is… it depends. It is hard to give a straight answer because different people […]
What do you do before breakfast? I was checking my email today hoping to get through this task easily to move on to more important issues. Usually I just click and delete, click and delete. This time it seemed that everything I wanted to click and delete sounded interesting. This is good and bad at […]
We have a system for updating Quickbooks in The Interview Doctor. Whenever one of us is updating the company file, we take down the file so the other person can’t access it. That way each of us is always working on the most recent file. This morning I had 30 minutes. My goal was to […]
The Rolodex is officially replaced by LinkedIn in the Burik office! For those of you too young to remember, a Rolodex is a rotating file. You stick business cards in the proper alphabetical slot and you can access the information pretty easily. It beats sticking the cards in a drawer. These things were really useful […]
I say tomato, you say tomato…let’s NOT call the whole thing off! When is a reward not a reward? When it is not important to the person receiving it! I am working with a client company where only about 10% of the employees are baby boomers. The average age of leadership below the owners is […]
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