Job-Hunt Intelligence - Smartest Strategy for Timing Your Next Job Interview

Published: Tue, 09/13/16

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By Martin Yate

There are good times to interview and bad times to interview. Determining the best times requires understanding the psychology of hiring managers. Because their #1 priority as a manager is “Getting work done through others,” making the right hiring decisions is a matter of professional survival.

Typically, H.R. works with a hiring manager to set the series of short-list candidate interviews within a contained time frame, usually two weeks at the most. On these days interviewing becomes the manager’s focus, and interviews can start as early as 7AM and go as late as 5PM.

Hiring managers tend to be technically competent, highly analytical and forward thinking, and because they are always pressed for time, tend to have excellent time management and organization skills. All these considerations play into your choosing the best days and times to interview.

So when is it best to be interviewed, first, last or in the middle?

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By Martin Yate

You go to job interviews because you need a job to keep food on your table and a roof over your head. You don’t want just any job, you want one with the opportunity for you to do well and with the salary increases that will deliver a rising quality of life.

Go about job interviews in the wrong way and, by the time you’ve reached 40, steady professional and financial growth will have passed you by. Instead you’ll have had a string of jobs that are pretty much the same, and you’ll be wondering what went wrong and the answer will always come back to the lost opportunities at jobs you didn’t get. It doesn’t need to be this way.

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By Susan P. Joyce

Interviewers seem to have favorite questions that they always ask every job candidate. The best way to impress interviewers is to have thought about the question and prepared to answer it in advance.

Some of these questions will also be asked while networking or just talking with family and friends.

Smart job seekers prepare in advance for those questions so they can answer them effectively, impressing the listener and moving closer to a job offer. Some people find it helpful to write out their answers. Others just make notes. Which ever method you choose, take the time to prepare.

If you can, have a friend or family member ask you the questions, and then answer them without looking at your notes. Or, practice in front of a mirror. Whatever works best for you.
 
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IT Job Search Expert Don Goodman shares excellent advice on how to succeed at your next job interview with some very useful tips you will extremely helpful.

Recruiter Jeff Lipschultz, Job-Hunt’s Working with Recruiters Expert, offers insight from his side of “the table” to help you provide the best answers to these typical job interview questions.   

More insight from recruiter Jeff Lipschultz about how to showcase your “soft skills” – problem solving, communicating, negotiating, decision making, etc. Simply saying you have those skills doesn’t impress an employer or prove you have them. Jeff shows you how to do it effectively.

When the interview ends, there is still more to do in order to clinch the deal. You don't have a job offer, yet! So, author and job interviewing expert Laura DeCarlo steps you through the process of ending your interview smartly and following up appropriately to make the best impression.

These two articles by Job-Hunt Expert Susan P. Joyce give you excellent advice on what questions to ask and not ask as well as what questions to avoid so you won’t ruin opportunities by asking the wrong questions or asking good questions at the wrong times

Sending a thank you note after a job interview is an excellent way to stand out. In this article, Susan Joyce describes how to avoid 7 credibility-killing mistakes when you send those notes, making them shining examples of the excellent quality of your work.

Great! You made it past the first interview. The next hurdle is typically another round of interviews. In this article, Don Goodman provides 5 key questions for you to ask that will impress the employer and help you decide if this job is the right job for you.

In this article, recruiter Jane Davis Long offers important tips for you when you are interviewing for a temporary job. Temping can be a great way to explore jobs, employers, and locations as well as helping pay bills. But the interview process is VERY different. Jane helps you understand how it is different and how you can succeed.



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