Month: October 2020

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Don’t leave me hanging…..aw crap, ya left me hanging! Why didn’t they get back to me?

I’ll set the stage because this sort of scenario is endemic in our times. The dreaded over-promise followed by the under-delivery. You have completed what in your mind was a very positive and confidence boosting interview. You feel like you have it in the bag and it is Friday afternoon. The Hiring Manager (HM) has told you they will get back to you on Monday.

You spend the weekend very upbeat, maybe celebrate with friends. You got this!

Then sure enough Monday passes and you wake up invigorated and anxiously make sure your phone is charged at 100% all day just in case it doesn’t decide to magically drain itself and die when the call comes. Your job is calling, you know it!
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How to get caught lying on your resumé. (How to make Pinocchio proud)

Lying. Everybody does it. Some people are good at it, others, not so much. From the 1 year old with chocolate all over her mouth who says she didn’t eat the candy on the table, to the politician who promises not to work for special interests to the car salesman who says that the transmission is fine despite the trail of transmission fluid leading from the road to the lot after your test drive, this article is for you!
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The interview just finished. So now what?

You just finished sitting down face to face with one or perhaps several managers and personnel at your prospective employer’s office (or via zoom due to COVID-19). So now that the interview is done, you decide to put it in God’s hands and move on to the next adventure. I will argue that you are making a big mistake. This is an opportunity to set yourself up for the next interview or prep for accepting a job offer. In any case, for several reasons which I will outline, you should consider doing the following things after an interview:
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