This Is How to Get Your Next Job: An Inside Look at What Employers Really Want

This Is How to Get Your Next Job: An Inside Look at What Employers Really Want

Andrea Kay

Language: English

Pages: 256

ISBN: 0814432212

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


Even in a bad economy, companies have job openings they can't fill. Considering the millions of people who are out of work or unhappily employed, how can that be?What are job seekers doing to turn off employers? And what is it that employers want but aren't finding? Leading career expert and syndicated columnist Andrea Kay asked employers one simple question: why didn't you hire the last ten people you interviewed? What it came down to, every time, wasn't a matter of skills or experience, but how applicants seemed based on what they said or did. From lack of preparation, to pushiness, to a subtly defensive attitude, it's the simple behaviors prospective employees exhibit before, during, and after interviews that stand between them and job offers. Based on candid insights from real-life employers, and featuring a foreword by Richard Nelson Bolles, bestselling author of "What Color Is Your Parachute?," this book helps job hunters take control of how they come across to the people in charge of hiring. From "20 Things You Should Never Do" to a "Would You Hire You?" test, "This Is How to Get Your Next Job" helps readers show hiring managers who they are and why they're the perfect fit for the job they seek.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

to make a mistake 4. How do I want to approach problems, people, and opportunities? Samples: With sensitivity to others With political savvy With enthusiasm With intellectual curiosity With an analytical eye With caution With openness With fairness With humility With confidence With good manners WHEN I THINK ABOUT THE ACTUAL WORK I DO: 1. What are my top skills (strengths) and talents that I bring to an employer? These are verbs—things you actually do. You enjoy doing

competing with Why employers may not be hiring you What employers are looking for and why they’d hire you How you want to come across to employers How to show employers who you really are How to show employers you’ve got the skills the job calls for and are the type of person they want How to reinforce the impression you want to make before, during, and after an interview That and more is what I cover in the first two chapters and will refer back to again and again in later chapters.

more. Headhunters and CEOs are always looking for creative people, and they do so online. That means you must be on your toes. One information technology executive told me he looks in all kinds of places for innovative thinking, and therefore, “Remember to dot your i’s and cross your t’s—we are watching.” Use Twitter Wisely Because of its format, some social media can be more damaging than others. Take the career of Richard Grenell, who was hired in April 2012 by presidential candidate Mitt

to tell me about herself. By the time she had gotten through her memorized list of strengths and that crap about being a ‘people person,’ I was praying my phone would ring so I could end the interview.” Why would you even say you’re a “people person?” Because you think you should? It’s what “they” want to hear? Or because the position you want entails dealing with others? What job doesn’t? Whether you’re making sandwiches or software, preparing someone’s taxes or launching an advertising

idiot or had suffered some kind of brain injury in her closet that caused her to select such inappropriate clothing for an interview. Unless her house was on fire, and those were the only clothes she could reach as she jumped off her balcony.” What’s the right skirt length? Keep in mind that when you sit, your skirt creeps up three inches. So pick a skirt that stops at your knees. And watch out for skirts with slits—even if they’re longer—since your skirt will open to where that slit opens.

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