by Rick Christensen | Aug 3, 2017 | Career Development Partners, Career Transition, Interviewing, Job Search, Job Search Resources, Rick Christensen
How to Handle Difficult Interview Questions #8 What are your salary requirements? Ideally, salary should only be discussed when you receive a job offer from an employer because that is when you have the most leverage and bargaining power. Until then, try to deflect...
by Rick Christensen | Jul 27, 2017 | Interviewing, Job Search Resources, Rick Christensen, Your Career
How to Handle Difficult Interview Questions #7 What questions do you have for us? Interviews should always be conversations, except in very structured interviews, you are allowed to ask questions during the interview as they occur. Don’t rely on your memory to...
by Rick Christensen | Jul 13, 2017 | Career Development Partners, Interviewing, Job Search Resources, Rick Christensen
How to Handle Difficult Interview Questions #5 Why should we hire you? You pray for them to ask this question, it is your home run question. This is the question that will allow you to show how much research you’ve done, how your skill set matches their needs,...
by Rick Christensen | Jul 6, 2017 | Interviewing, Job Search, Job Search Resources, Rick Christensen
How to Handle Difficult Interview Questions #4 Why did you leave (or want to leave) your most recent position? One of the questions that is usually asked during a job interview is “Why do you want to leave your job?” or “Why did you leave your last...
by Rick Christensen | Jun 29, 2017 | Career Development Partners, Career Transition, Interviewing, Job Search, Job Search Resources, Rick Christensen
How to Handle Difficult Interview Questions – Why do you want to work for this company? “To get a paycheck.” “It’s a great company and I’d love to work here.” “Who wouldn’t want to work here.” “I heard...
by Rick Christensen | Jun 22, 2017 | Career Transition, Job Search, Job Search Resources, Rick Christensen
How to Handle Difficult Interview Questions: What’s your greatest weakness? The best way to handle difficult interview questions is to prepare for them in advance. Of course, you will never know every question that can come up, but you can know that many...
