“I’ve been finding people jobs since 1973, and have helped thousands of candidates find great career opportunities. Let me help you too!”... Tony Beshara
"I've been finding people jobs since 1973, and have helped thousands of candidates find great career opportunities. Let me help you too!"... Tony Beshara
..candidate has been out of work for three months…we get her an interview and she says she is going on vacation for two weeks???
vacation from what..?
most employers would think that the priorities are out of sync here….and they are right!
had a candidate that was an employer of mine who hired people from me…four years ago, he was interviewing candidates and, as many employers do, didn’t really communicate with all of the candidates he interviewed.. in fact…he was rude to them…telling them he’d call them, then never do it…telling them they were good candidates but never following up with them..
now everyone is busy, but it is courteous to do what you say you will do…many, many hiring authorities don’t do this..in fact, it is one of the biggest complaints we hear, that the hiring authority said they’d be in touch then don’t..
well, one of the guys he treated this way is now a hiring authority…i presented the man ..the original one that was rude to the new hiring authority…he laughed and said there was no way he’d interview him because he’ been so rude four years ago…
what goes around…comes around
we are at Wake Forest this weekend…our youngest son is graduating from there…it made me think about how getting good grades in college can really makes a difference in your future…
now, many of us, like me, got by in undergrad with C’s…we still did OK, because we work hard…
BUT, it sure makes a big difference if you can show folks that you are smart..yes, even, “book smart”…common sense has to be there…but being smart sure helps you in life…and employers love it..
so when interviewing, even if you have been out of school for a few years, if your grades were really good, let the hiring authority know you did well in school…
if you didn’t do so well in the first year or two of college and did well in the last couple of years …or you had good grades in your major, but your overall gpa wasn’t so hot…don’t hesitate to share with a hiring authority that you did well in those situations…
if your grades in college were not that hot, whatever you do, don’t justify poor performance…something like, “My grades were not as good as I would have liked. If I had it to do over again, I would have studied harder,” works well. Then emphasize working hard at “other” things, like a job during school, or social activities, i.e. fraternity, sorority, organizations, politics, etc.
You will never be able to make reasonable excuses for poor grades, so don’t try.
If your kids or someone you know is starting college, tell them that Tony said that few things take the place of being smart…you can open many more doors in your career with good grades…
…great candidate..she decided that she should tell potential employers that she was pregnant..
two of the companies she spoke to loved that she told them..said that they had lots of moms there and she would fit right in..one of them is strongly considering her..
two of the companies she interviewed with quietly said very little, but “passed” on her…never said a word as to why..but we all know why..
here was our rational..if she didn’t tell them and she went to work..left to have the baby and didn’t come back to work, which is always possible, that firm most likely would be very upset with her…
no matter what anyone says, it can really put a company in a very awkward position if they hire someone who leaves to have a baby in six or seven months…especially if they are a small firm that depends on every employee..
if a candidate who becomes an employee puts the company in a real pinch like this, the people in the company may really resent her not telling them…so, the right thing to do is to “treat others the way you’d want to be treated”…don’t suprise folks…
..one of our candidates says she is 2 months pregnant…still needs a job, as she is unemployed…
asked us if she should tell people when she is in the interviewing process that she is pregnant…
an employer cannot ask if a candidate is pregnant…but a candidate can offer it if she wishes…
what do you think she should do???
i’ll tell you what we advised her later…what do you think?
My candidate last week was perfect for the job. She goes to the interview and things are going great…until…she starts talking about how she has been under paid and she is now going to make up for it by being sure she gets paid “what she is worth”.
The hiring authority, naturally, asks her what she thinks she is “worth”…she tells him $20,000 more than what she is now making.
The interview went south after that….
Don’t ever, ever, ever talk about “what you are worth” until you have established your value to an employer.
