Jobless Corner

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 not unknown for interviews to start with a deliberate attempt to unsettle you by causing you to lose your temper.

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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 through life.

In a tough job interview even the smoothest candidate can come unstuck. The interview episode of The Apprentice showcases tactics to test the mettle of prospective employees. How to respond if you find yourself in a job interview from hell?

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More than half of the women in engineering, IT and science leave the field at mid­-career. Here’s the reason.

June 16, 2008 (Computerworld)  What if half the men in science, engineering and technology roles dropped out at midcareer? That would surely be perceived as a national crisis. Yet more than half the women in those fields leave — most of them during their mid- to late 30s.

In this month’s Harvard Business Review, Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Carolyn Buck Luce and Lisa J. Servon describe the Athena Factor, their research project examining the career trajectories of such women. Hewlett, founding president of the Center for Work-Life Policy in New York, told Kathleen Melymuka about what they learned.

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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 managers say biggest mistake is dressing inappropriately
• About half also cite badmouthing a former boss as the worst offense
• Don’t brush your hair during your interview or ask for a ride home

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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.” -Ralph Lauren

A leader is seen as someone with a can-do attitude, the person whose glass is always half full. Hurdles in the road are not obstacles that prevent him from achieving his goal. Rather, they are challenges to be faced, to be overcome, and to be learned from. A leader believes that failures present the opportunity for self-improvement, and that performance on the next go-round will only be enhanced through the lessons previously learned.

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