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Keeping Up with Expectations at Work

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Some people are specially good at selling themselves during  job interviews and -are also capable of- maintaining the expectations set during it, once they get hired. But there’s a group out there that once they are hands on with the job, they miserably fail to keep up with the expectations they generated during the interview process. Do [...]

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Interviews: 10 Common Questions; And What You Should Not Say

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Weeks ago, Primer Magazine published “The 10 Most Common Job Interview Questions And The Reasons You Should Not Use Them” (link). New England Job Show‘s  editor, Jackie Simmonds, challenged me to flip the article around and orient it towards Job Seekers instead of Managers and Recruiters. My response to Jackie’s challenge is “Interviews: 10 Common Questions; [...]

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Challenging the candidate with unconventional questions in a job interview

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I’ve been doing a lot of job interviews lately. Evidently, the market being flooded with applicants is one of the side effects of the crisis. My organization, instead of laying people off has been steadily hiring and this is due to the high turnover rate of the industry. As any other organization, we have a [...]

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How to know if you are being lied in a job interview. And how to counter it

We get to interview all kind of people. Sometimes we have to interview too many in a too short period of time. Sometimes we only have one chance to talk to that person before making conclusions. That’s why it’s important to make the most out of that time. The person in front of you has [...]

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