Job Interview Preparation HelpJob Interview Preparation The key to handling rejection is you need to stop being surprised that it happens! Once you accept that there are things you cannot control life begins to get more pleasant. I rarely complain about weather or traffic, instead I put my focus on what I can do to adjust to it. In the game of life we sometimes forget just how limited we are in the grand scheme of things…we can control our reactions and our behavior but we will never control others! I think of the children’s fairy tale where the princess kisses a lot of frogs in the hope one will turn into a prince. Looking for a job, getting a new client and having a proposal accepted…all take perseverance and only the strong survive. It requires diligence and like all good things…patience. When faced with the prospect of waiting people have a tendency to panic and force the outcome…which is one way of getting rejected. Another way to get rejected is failure to prepare…you have heard me say the importance of rehearsing a couple of things…essential to your success…one is the answer to the question (a great opportunity to shine) ” Can you tell me about your job history?” “What would your last boss say about you?” “What do you know about our company?” Provided you are solid in your interview preparation you can turn your attention toward the hunt! Every good hunter needs to know a few things…how to locate a place to hunt is one. Examples: Do I search by company? Do I search by location? Do I search by vertical market? Do I use a recruiter to assist me? If you have determined that your aim is good enough to hit your target you can further refine your approach by using all of your energy to market. A classic blunder I used to make in job search was to “fly by the seat of my pants”…just activity for activity’s sake and little rhyme or reason to it all. I would passively wait for email alerts from career websites and some days I would make dozens of marketing calls and other days I would send out dozens of emails. I soon learned that I needed to come up with a solid schedule wherein I would be out of the house fully dressed in business casual in the event I had an opportunity to do an introduction. I would also use a matrix of how to use my time avoiding traps of going to the library looking for books to aid in my strategy…valuable perhaps…but certainly a waste of primetime business hours. I would also make a list of affirmations and keep that with me in a plastic sheet protector on top of my resumes. At a glance I would see my strengths presented as fact and it served to remind me of valuable filler and talking points.If my base of time management and preparation when given the opportunity were strong, then the rest was a numbers game…you need to always remember that luck is when preparation meets opportunity and the more frogs you kiss the faster you will get results! "Job Interview Preparation" written by Ken Bownes "Job Interview Preparation" blogHave A Great Story About This Topic?Share it! "Job Interview Preparation" - Most read articles |
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