How To Handle The Five Killer Telephone Interview Questions

A telephone interview is usually short, just enough time to rule you in or out, so the focus is on questions that help evaluate you quickly. Your goal is to turn it into a face-to-face meeting, so your answers need to be concise. As a rule of thumb, keep your answers to less than two minutes, if an interviewer wants to know more s/he will ask.

How To Turn Interviews Into Job Offers

Hiring managers hate interviewing, they just want to find someone to hire and get back to their other work. All you have to do to land job offers is show interviewers that you’re the one they can hire.

However, you have less experience turning job interviews into job offers than almost anything else you do in your professional life, so learning how to turn interviews into job offers is critical to your financial security. Every job interview is an opportunity to turn a professional weakness into a must have professional strength.

Bartender – Is It A Real Job?

“I’m looking for a bartender job. I know some people don't think that it's a real job but it's all I want to do right now and the competition is fierce in this economy.” Karla. LA

There is honor in all work so don’t let the ill-informed judgments of others diminish your self-respect Karla. By far the toughest job I ever had was tending bar, and everything I learned tending bar has paid off in every job I’ve held since:

How To Turn Job Interviews Into Job Offers

“I can do the job, so why don’t I get the job offer?” Being confident in your professional skills and being able to transfer that confidence in your competence to recruiters and hiring managers are two very different but equally important skills.

Who gets the job offers? The people who turn job interviews into job offers with the greatest ease are the people who are able to identify and discuss the recurrent problems that lurk at the heart of their work, these people are seen to “get” the job in ways that other candidates don’t.