Resume/Job Interview Advice

[FunInTheSunParticipant 8283]

Would you like to share some advice about resumes and job interviews?

Maybe we can help someone who’s struggling with unemployment or looking for a new opportunity.

The advice I’ve gotten over the years:

1. Dress in neat, clean clothes that are appropriate for the occupation.

2. Be well groomed, smile, make eye contact, give a firm handshake, sit up strait, and don’t fidget. (Don’t you hate job interviews?)

3. Talk about your education, work experience, job skills, career goals, and hobbies. Explain how you can contribute to the success of the business.

4. Try not to say anything negative about your past jobs and supervisors. (That’s a challenge!)

5. Make your resume one page. Write about skills, work experience, and achievements. Bring a copy with you to your interview.

One time a teacher told me that desperate, unemployed people don’t get hired, whereas people who don’t need a job usually don’t have a hard time getting a job. That really sucks. So if you’re unemployed: try not to look like you’re desperate!

HAPPY LABOR DAY!

"I saw that there comes a point, in the defeat of any man of virtue, when his own consent is needed for evil to win-and that no manner of injury done to him by others can succeed if he chooses to withhold his consent. I saw that I could put an end to your outrages by pronouncing a single word in my mind. I pronounced it. The word was ‘No.’" (Atlas Shrugged)

[Anonymous 25]

For job interviews I highly recommend a book called “great answers to tough interview questions”. Someone recommended it to me a few years back and it’s a great help. I have been preferred candidate and passed through third and fourth interviews for senior roles. Well worth the asking price. Link on amazon is here:

https://www.amazon.com/Great-Answers-Tough-Interview-Questions/dp/0749435526

You can pick up a second hand copy for a dollar, cant go wrong

[Jan SobieskiParticipant 28791]

Don’t try. Never say negative things about past employers.

Positive attitude.

2 pages is OK if you merit it.

Can do.

Love is just alimony waiting to happen. Visit mgtow.com.

[TuneoutParticipant]

One piece of golden advice that has stuck with me-

When they ask what your greatest weakness is

Say ‘I’m a workaholic who has difficulty finding time
for friends and family.’

They LOVE hearing s~~~ like that!

Lifes a bitch,but you don't have to marry one!

[The Batman 2020Participant 2112]

I was told to study the 20 most common interview questions after my last interview.. Like why are you the best candidate? How does your past experience relate to this position? How do you handle adversity? Etc.

Your 20's are for learning, your 30's are for earning.

[Anonymous 0]

FunInTheSun wrote:

Would you like to share some advice about resumes and job interviews?

Maybe we can help someone who’s struggling with unemployment or looking for a new opportunity.

The advice I’ve gotten over the years:

1. Dress in neat, clean clothes that are appropriate for the occupation.

2. Be well groomed, smile, make eye contact, give a firm handshake, sit up strait, and don’t fidget. (Don’t you hate job interviews?)

3. Talk about your education, work experience, job skills, career goals, and hobbies. Explain how you can contribute to the success of the business.

4. Try not to say anything negative about your past jobs and supervisors. (That’s a challenge!)

5. Make your resume one page. Write about skills, work experience, and achievements. Bring a copy with you to your interview.

One time a teacher told me that desperate, unemployed people don’t get hired, whereas people who don’t need a job usually don’t have a hard time getting a job. That really sucks. So if you’re unemployed: try not to look like you’re desperate!

HAPPY LABOR DAY!

There are lots of books, lots of websites out there on the subject. It’s a universal thing; everyone needs a job and goes through multiple interviews to get them. So everyone’s been through it and has lots of advice on how to handle it.

Also, there are professional services that will help you with the process, if you want to pay for help.

Writing resumes and preparing for a job interview is kind of like learning PUA game: You can just pick up a couple tips to improve your presentation, or you can really practice and study and hone your skills to perfection. For example, a lot of college placement offices will help college students with practice interviews in front of a camera so that you can watch yourself afterwards and see how you did: Were you twitchy? Were you scratching yourself all the time? Were you composed? Were you nervous?

Anyway, if you want more info, I would just head onto the ‘net and do a general search. Also go to Amazon; there are about a million books on the subject. Just set up your search at Amazon for the top-rated ones.

[DorkShitParticipant 4353]

Make sure your first name can be misunderstood to be a woman’s name.

We typically get around 300 applicants for an engineering request.

My boss goes thru them looking for girl names. He calls Sandy and a deep guy voice says hello. We have to give him a few minutes before moving on.

Rarely and I mean rarely we get a resume from a female that can meet minimum qualifications.

Interviewing: I only know technical professional corporate scenario. Please, try to be unique, interesting. Remember that your audience has done a gazillion of these. They have to ask the standard pat questions and listen to you drone on. Also, usually there is already a shoe in.

For instance, when they ask you to describe a time when you overcame a blah blah blah. Reply with something like “I was assigned a project to fix a blah blah blah problem at our supplier. I drove there and as I arrived, I noticed the building was on fire and I blah blah blah and then we did high fives and celebrated the teams success.” In my personal case the building was on fire and the firemen coordinated with the company to allow them to get the tools and parts out. The police shut down road and they put tools and parts on road. I know, it’s not legal for them to allow people on fork trucks to go into a burning building. The company was the largest business and everyone was related. Anyway, they were back up an running business in a week. Tada, something new.

Anyway, good luck

Peace brothers

[RyshParticipant 134]

FunInTheSun wrote:

1. Dress in neat, clean clothes that are appropriate for the occupation.

If in doubt, overdressing is better than underdressing.

4. Try not to say anything negative about your past jobs and supervisors. (That’s a challenge!)

Important because if you slander past employers, they will think you’d do the same with them.

Additional hint for the actual interview: don’t just report past experience, that’s boring. Put it as an exciting story. Another upside is that it robs them of time for asking stupid questions because they are more curious to hear the end of the story.

desperate, unemployed people don’t get hired, whereas people who don’t need a job usually don’t have a hard time getting a job.

Just like in the dating scene. The fact that HR is infested with women certainly is a totally unrelated coincidence.

Another thing with relevant hobbies: present them right in the application. Best with a web page. If what you are doing is unrelated to IT, get an IT guy. For example, if you are a car tinkerer and have an awesome, self-customised car, but you do not know how to set up a web page, then get an IT guy. You take care of his car, billing only the parts, and he makes a web page for you. No money involved, thus no tax overhead, and both get what they need.

[StrenghtOfWill32Participant 32]

I got a few tips:

1. Be honest, if you can’t do something because you don’t know yet. Just say it, otherwise you will get fired off in a
assessment.
2. Prepare for questions and prepare yourself to asks the interviewer questions as well.
3. Don’t talk to much, and asks a lot of open questions. You can gain trust about your experiences, motivations or
perhaps your passion in your work if you asks the right questions.
4. If you ask the right questions, you can tell your value for a company. Example: ‘What is important on your department
future? Like innovation, targets, budget cutting (name a few which is relevant)’. After you get a answer, you can
hook up with your experience stories and show what value you can be.
5. Never, and i mean never brag about anything. In this cat and mouse game, every s~~~ situation is a ‘honorable
challenge’ or perhaps a ‘learn lesson that you will be happily to take’

I work for a IT consultancy company for network engineer/network security jobs, and i have 1 or 2 job applications at customers in a year. My company supports my in this matter by giving my presentation/sales trainings, if you want i can send you a few more tips 🙂

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