This Valentine’s Day take a moment to open your heart to the love around you. Let that love propel you to action for a fuller life. The Interview Doctors, Katherine and Dan
You can often tell how old someone is by his or her perspective of resumes. In the “olden days”, say 15 or 20 years ago, resumes – summaries describing an individual’s last few jobs and education – were typed or printed on special fancy paper purchased from the local stationary store. Laid off employees might […]
Friday January 31 is Chinese New Year! The year of the Horse. Rembrandt, Harrison Ford, Aretha Franklin, and President Theodore Roosevelt were born in the year of the Horse. According to infoplease people wear red clothes decorated with poems on red paper. Families gather for feasts on New Year’s Eve to celebrate a new start. […]
Candidates complain about the experiences they have during their job searches. It takes too long, some company representatives are rude, they get no feedback or acknowledgement, and the people they interview with don’t really understand the open position. But the biggest complaint I hear is that the interview questions are silly. Many hiring managers honestly […]
Does this sound familiar? Your boss meets you in the hall when you return from lunch. “Can you talk to the guy in Conference Room B? I think this might be a good candidate for that opening in Marketing. Let me know what you think. Ok?” Really? Now? You have twelve things on your TO […]
In the last few months I worked with Julia and Greg, recent college graduates having trouble landing jobs after graduation as an accountant and an engineer. Their parents came to The Interview Doctor for help. Both candidates had a mishmash of odd jobs during their school years but neither had any relevant work experience or […]
Erin’s parent’s caught me at church with the great news: Erin got a job!! A recent college grad in the unusual field of journalistic photography, she was a great client. She listened. She was unafraid to try something new. She knocked on doors until someone opened. Really! Literally, Erin knocked on doors and followed every […]
I am remodeling my master bathroom. I need to remove the carpeting and wall paper that my daughter refers to as “fugly”. I am not sure exactly what that means but I am pretty sure it is bad. The wallpaper came down easily. I lovingly washed the walls to remove the sizing then sanded for […]
If you pay attention you can pick up knowledge in the oddest places. I attended an information session last week about focus. The points made just as much sense for people who work in business as it does for small business owners like me. According to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, “stability and control […]
Recently Tom (not his real name!) sent me his resume to get my opinion and to network. Tom has a nice background with many accomplishments and a good educational background. But the resume was formatted in a way that made it very hard for me to read. I asked Tom if he was getting any […]
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