One of the hardest parts of the interview is integrating all of the achievements, abilities, and accomplishments you have prepared into your answers. You never know what an interviewer will asks, and you may have a winning answer to a question that the interviewer never brings up. That is why “Is there anything else I[…]
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Common Interview Question: How Long Do You Plan on Staying With Us?
AUGUST 22, 2011 | BY MICAH
When a company decides to hire you, they are making a financial commitment. It takes time to train new employees, adjust to growing pains, spend time filling out forms, etc. You cost them money just by being hired, no matter what your salary. They spend money on you, so they need you to stay. Every[…]
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Common Interview Question: Why Do You Want to Become Part of Our Team?
APRIL 11, 2011 | BY MICAH
It may come as a shock, but companies want to hire people that actually want to work there. They don’t want to hire people that simply applied to any job that looked like it met their criteria. They want to hire people that know about their company and chose, specifically, to apply with their organization[…]
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Common Interview Question – What Do You Bring to the Company?
JANUARY 10, 2011 | BY MICAH
Cookies! Every Wednesday! Oh, you mean professionally? Well, let’s see. Every day I bring a suitcase. I bring hefty stretch pants to hold up my obvious portliness. I also bring my smile. Really, who couldn’t use a good smile every day? No one, that’s who. Interview questions like “What do you bring to the company”[…]
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Interview Question – When Can You Start?
AUGUST 24, 2010 | BY MICAH
Sometimes there are answers so simple that you know they must be wrong. You are faced with an interview question that is so easy to answer that you begin to doubt yourself. One such interview question is “When Can You Start?” RIGHT NOW – Right This Very Second! The reality is that there is no[…]
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Interview Question – Who Would You Say Has Inspired You?
AUGUST 5, 2010 | BY MICAH
Unless you were created in a test tube on the day of the job interview, chances are you have a history of your life that the interviewer would like to explore. Job interview questions about your past are a good way to discover not only who you are as a person, but how well you[…]
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