Jobless Corner

5. Suffering presentational difficulty….

For her Apprentice interview, Claire turned up in a jumper of such bilious luminescence that it was extraordinary that none of the Rottweiler interviewers mentioned it. Alex’s problem was his low energy and soft speech. “Big night out?” snarled one attack dog.
As well as dress, there’s body language, the way people shake […]

4. Drill down questions….

When asked the bog-standard question, “tell me what you think about the company?” it’s fairly clear that something more than a one-word answer is required. And even running out of steam after 20 seconds is unlikely to impress.
It’s a bugbear for Mr Tkachuk, who has tripped up more than one Apprentice by […]

2. Getting Stifled

After going through the huddle of getting caught in a lie during an interview yesterday, today we shall look at what happens when you get stifled during an interview and if this has never happened to you just read on, you never know when it might happen.
It’s not very nice, but it’s certainly […]

This week we shall cover five job interview questions that normally put the interviewee in a rut. We shall cover each topic per day.
We all know about the TV program, The Apprentice where candidates are constantly put through a grueling set of interviews that requires them to apply all the skills that they have learnt […]

Hiring managers don’t want to hear a lot of things during an interview — confessions of a violent past, a cell phone ring, a toilet flush. Yet job seekers have committed these interview gaffes and worse, according to CareerBuilder.com’s annual survey of the worst interview mistakes.  Some of this article’s highlights indicate that:

Half of hiring […]