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When you go for an interview, a purchase decision is being made. The employer is seeing you and others to determine whom he’ll acquire and whom he won’t. Chances are he’s read your resume. Now a salesman is coming over with the actual product. Get ready. He won’t just look at the paint job and kick the tires. He’ll take the test drive! You are the salesman and you’re the product. Ideally, your potential employer will wind up wanting to buy the car …or at least to drive it again, after he has seen and tried some others. If so, you’ll be offered the job…. or at least invited back for another round of interviews. In the end you may decide that this employer and his opportunity are not for you. But what you and I will work on is making sure that he doesn’t conclude you’re not for him. Bear in mind that you’re proving yourself on two levels: 1. As a fine person, and 2. As someone obviously able to do the job. The person who is thinking of hiring...

Does the organization suit you q What reputation does the organization have? Is it, for example, known for high quality goods or for giving good value for money? q How is it regarded by its competitors and financial press? q What sort of people work for it? Is there an old-boy network? Will you suit the profile of those at senior levels? q Is it optimistic, go-ahead and expanding? Or the reverse? q Do employees seem happy? Are there good conditions of employment? q Is there a history of good or bad industrial relations? The corporate image 1. It is difficult to asses the company accurately from outward manifestations. The products or services, the style of advertising, the buildings may all give a false or superficial idea if what life is like on the inside. You cannot tell what it is like to work for the company from looking at its products. 2. A company’s literature is a poor indicator of corporate perso...

Ten Deadly Mistakes Job Searchers Make Recruiting and Hiring And Why They Should Matter to Employers: Sometimes the simplest mistakes make all the difference in the potential joining together of an employer and a job searcher. These opportunities to fail occur before the first phone call is ever exchanged. If you’re an employer, these simple, yet serious, job searcher mistakes tell you volumes about the candidate. These deadly mistakes matter. Here are ten things that employers need to watch for as you review job searcher resumes and applications. Beware of job searchers who: Fail to follow your directions about how to apply: Why it Matters: By following your requested application method: email, fax, or mail, the job searcher brands himself as a cooperative person who can and is willing to follow directions. The candidate makes it easy for you to route all applications into an email recruiting folder, as an example. The job searcher is telegraphing that he is willing to ...