Dos And Don’ts For Executive Job Candidates
Dos And Don’ts For Executive Job Candidates
If you are applying for a job in the executive field one of the most important things that you need to prepare for is your interview. Interviews can be stressful and no matter how well you prepare and how much experience you have, it never hurts to brush up on some interviewing tips so that your chances of getting hired are as good as possible.
Do: Have a professional outfit, show up on time, dress moderately conservative, and be pleasant while putting the interviewer at ease Do: Know the company’s value proposition, what they offer their employees such as culture and perks. Do: Ask questions during the interview and listen to what the interviewer has to say. Do: Demonstrate how you will add value to their organization. Do: Make sure your resume is filled with genuine skills that they are looking for in an employee.
Don’t: Bring up salary during the interview or try asking about salary in writing, it shows that you don’t understand the concept of professional boundaries. Don’t: Talk about yourself too much, stick to the key points of your resume and connect them to the company, show them why you would fit as part of their team. Don’t: Be negative or ill-tempered if something happens, just accept it and move on. Don’t: Make promises you can’t keep. Don’t: Use bad language, or be rude to someone in the office, the person interviewing you doesn’t want to work with a bully and neither do you.
Interviewers will look at your suit and judge it for quality, design, and style. If your suit is wrinkled, has bad stitching or color then it will give them a negative impression of your personality. This can be a big deal as interviews are often times an opportunity to create a lasting impression on someone who would end up being your boss if you are hired for the job.
Tuesday, October 15, 2012 - 10:43am
Possibly this is another show stopping error since 'Dressing Up For The Success Interview' is part of an article called 'Dressing Up For The Success Affair'. Whatever. I copy/pasted the text from the article source and then used Find and Replace to change 'Success Interview' to 'Success Affair'. Not too hard. As for the Daring Fireball post, I have no idea what happened. I wanted to see if I could find a blog post that was a recent headline in Google News that referenced my site and then modify it as above. I could not find a recent one (as of October 11, 2012) but I did manage to draw the attention of John Gruber. This is what it resulted in:
The text above shows up as the 'breaking news' on John Gruber's site. I do not think that this was what he was expecting to see pop up. Now, you might think that this is a big deal and that I am rubbing this in his face or something. It's really not meant that way at all. Instead, it's more like me just saying "Hey! Check out what I did!". The content is not that important to me. Instead, I did it for two reasons: 1) To see if I could and 2) To see how long it would take for him to make the changes to his site so that it would be correct again. It took him a couple of days and then he posted the following on Twitter:
That was pretty damn funny. I do not think that he believes I meant anything by it either.
This is what the entire process looked like:
1) FOUND ARTICLE : Thursday, October 17, 2012 - 4:54pm
2) COPIED TEXT FROM ARTICLE SOURCE : Thursday, October 17, 2012 - 4:55pm
3) FOUND REPLACEMENT WORDS : Thursday, October 17, 2012 - 5:00pm
4) ADDED EDITORIAL BODY :Friday 10/18/2012 @ 3:30 AM 6:53 PM - John Gruber tweets that the headline was obviously produced using a keyword density feature in a search engine.
5) ADDED LINK TO SOURCE : Friday, October 18, 2012 - 3:47pm
6) ADDED EDITORIAL BODY : --- I added editorial body to John Gruber's tweet because it is in a direct reply to me and thus should be included as part of my response.
7) ADDED FEATURED ARTICLE : Friday, October 18, 2012 - 9:44pm 12:59 PM - I added the item to this list because the date of this entry is ridiculously early.
I was not going to add another featured item until I fixed the first one though. I was not really planning on updating this entry at all but then John Gruber started to reply to some people about it and that led to the following:
It's now a famous screenshot and in my opinion, one of the best jokes of 2013. It didn't take too much work on my part though. Finding the error is really not that hard and neither is fixing it. All you need to do is make sure that you use quotes around your search terms in Google News. Now, some people have suggested using quotation marks around body text or headlines but I have found that they are unnecessary if I make sure to use quotes around my search terms. In this case, there is no way that I could have made the mistake without being prompted to by Google News so it does not matter. When I use quotes around search terms in Google News all that happens is that my search results are extended to begin with quotation marks. This isn't a problem at all. To see this for yourself, do the following:
1) Go to Google News and enter your search term exactly as you would if you were searching on the web (e.g., "search term" and then your word or phrase). In this example, I am looking for "WIRED".
2) Click on 'Search News' in the sidebar.
3) Find an article that contains your search term in the body of the article. The results should look something like this:
4) Now, highlight one of the instances of your search term on the page and then press CTRL+C (or COMMAND+C if you are on a Mac) to copy it. If you want to find multiple instances of your search term then you would continue to use CTRL+C (or COMMAND+C if you are on a Mac).
5) Go back over to Google News and enter that text into the 'Add a new keyword or phrase' field.
Conclusion:
Google News works pretty well. It's not always fast and it is not always accurate but it is better than most of the other news searches that I have tried to use. That said, it's still not a particularly good tool for finding news.
That said, if you want to stay up-to-date with the tech industry I would recommend that you use Google News as part of your overall strategy. It can help cut down on the time that you spend doing Google searches for new articles and instead just pull in news articles from various sources on top of your personal RSS feed reader as part of your routine in the morning/early afternoon before work or during your lunch hour(s).