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What Would a Co-Worker Who Doesn’t LIke You Say About You? | No BS Job Search Advice Radio

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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter explains how to answer the tough interview question, “What would a co-worker who doesn’t like you say about you?”

 

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Let’s talk about 1 of those tough interview questions that’s designed to blindside you.  This is not 1 of those hedge fund questions that firms ask.  You know, brainteasers.  This is just 1 of those standard interview questions that shows up from time to time and I want to make sure you’re prepared for it. Here’s the question:

“How would someone who doesn’t like you describe you?”

Boing!

For most people, that is a shocker question.

  1.  It’s hard of the think of people not liking you in the workplace.
  2. How do you explain that to the interviewer?
  3. You cannot use the pat answer (Everyone likes me.  There is never a problem with any of my coworkers.)

There is always someone who will have had a disagreement with you. Here’s a way to play it, and it can be done in more than one direction.

For example,  you are working with someone who is somewhat analytical.  You can say, “That’s a great question!  I haven’t really thought of that!” (Remember, interviewing can be an acting job as part of answering questions). So you want to appear as though  you have been taken off guard even though you have a way of answering the question.

So, again, you start off by saying, “That’s a great question!  I ever really thought of that!”   Then you take a moment  and continue by saying, “I know with a coworker who is somewhat analytical  and wants to look at a problem from a lot of corrections, they may find it uncomfortable to deal with someone like me who likes to charge right in and is able to figure things out on the fly,, to be able to move things along.” That’s a great answer in a sales role.

OR

You can also say, “For those who like the charge right in, I’d like to look at a problem from a few different directions  to ensure that we don’t unintentionally cause harm.  Along the way or do things that would be completely ineffectual.  I would rather take a moment to evaluate things before taking action.  After all, all of us are time stressed..  So I would rather do something one time extremely well and repeatedly do things to correct mistakes.”

Again, you can answer the question in both directions, but the idea is to never diminish the question By saying, “I have never had a problem with anyone at work.” No one will believe it,, they will just think you’re lying to them and you’ll hurt yourself on the interview.  On the other hand, if you acknowledge difference  and explain how you function, that can go a long way toward winning the job.

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Do you think employers are trying to help you? You already know you can’t trust recruiters—they tell you as much as they think you need to know to take the job they after representing so they collect their payday.

The skills needed to find a job are different yet complement the skills needed to do a job.

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a career coach and recruiter for what seems like one hundred years.

JobSearchCoachingHQ.com changes that with great advice for job hunters—videos, my books and guides to job hunting, podcasts, articles, PLUS a community for you to ask questions of PLUS the ability to ask me questions where I function as your ally with no conflict of interest answering your questions.

Connect with me on LinkedIn

You can order a copy of “Diagnosing Your Job Search Problems” for Kindle for $.99 and receive free Kindle versions of “No BS Resume Advice” and “Interview Preparation.”

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Always Be on the Prowl. Always be Look for a Job. | No BS Job Search Advice Radio

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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter explains the importance of being in continual job search mode instead of lurching from one job search to another.

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Do you think employers are trying to help you? You already know you can’t trust recruiters—they tell you as much as they think you need to know to take the job they after representing so they collect their payday.

The skills needed to find a job are different yet complement the skills needed to do a job.

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a career coach and recruiter for what seems like one hundred years.

JobSearchCoachingHQ.com changes that with great advice for job hunters—videos, my books and guides to job hunting, podcasts, articles, PLUS a community for you to ask questions of PLUS the ability to ask me questions where I function as your ally with no conflict of interest answering your questions.

Connect with me on LinkedIn

You can order a copy of “Diagnosing Your Job Search Problems” for Kindle for $.99 and receive free Kindle versions of “No BS Resume Advice” and “Interview Preparation.”

Don’t forget to give the show 5 stars and a good review in iTunes

Building Charisma

Building Charisma | No BS Job Search Advice Radio

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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter discusses the importance of charisma when you interview and explains how you can increase yours.

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Do you think employers are trying to help you? You already know you can’t trust recruiters—they tell you as much as they think you need to know to take the job they after representing so they collect their payday.

The skills needed to find a job are different yet complement the skills needed to do a job.

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a career coach and recruiter for what seems like one hundred years.

JobSearchCoachingHQ.com changes that with great advice for job hunters—videos, my books and guides to job hunting, podcasts, articles, PLUS a community for you to ask questions of PLUS the ability to ask me questions where I function as your ally with no conflict of interest answering your questions.

Connect with me on LinkedIn

You can order a copy of “Diagnosing Your Job Search Problems” for Kindle for $.99 and receive free Kindle versions of “No BS Resume Advice” and “Interview Preparation.”

Don’t forget to give the show 5 stars and a good review in iTunes

Deciding to Change Jobs – No BS Job Search Advice

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Do you think employers are trying to help you? You already know you can’t trust recruiters—they tell you as much as they think you need to know to take the job they after representing so they collect their payday.

The skills needed to find a job are different yet complement the skills needed to do a job.

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a career coach and recruiter for what seems like one hundred years.

JobSearchCoachingHQ.com changes that with great advice for job hunters—videos, my books and guides to job hunting, podcasts, articles, PLUS a community for you to ask questions of PLUS the ability to ask me questions where I function as your ally with no conflict of interest answering your questions.

Connect with me on LinkedIn

You can order a copy of “Diagnosing Your Job Search Problems” for Kindle for $.99 and receive free Kindle versions of “No BS Resume Advice” and “Interview Preparation.”

Don’t forget to give the show 5 stars and a good review in iTunes

What You Must Do If a Recruiter Calls or Emails – No BS Job Search Advice Radio

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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter explains what you must do if a recruiter calls you or emails you after you submit a resume.

 

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I want to talk with you today about an experience I’ve had recently that I think is absolutely ridiculous. You, as a job hunter, cannot do this.

You send a resume to a recruiter after seeing a job that they had online.  You receive an email or phone call from the recruiter and what don’t you do?

Respond to them.

It’s ridiculous!

I’m not saying you shall respond instantaneously, but, you saw a job! I’m staring at a bunch of messages that I left 2 days ago.  I haven’t gotten over for return phone call from these people.  If I sent them an email.  I haven’t received a response.

A phone call.  Very simple.  A conversation.  5 minutes.  Responding to an email to answer a few questions so I can discern whether you fit.  5 minutes.  Very easy to do.

No response?  Come on!

You are in job hunting mode and don’t respond to people when there’s a position available? Help me understand how this makes sense to you.

I’m not going to encourage you.  I’m going to demand, Once you send out a resume, you have a commitment to respond when someone leaves a message for you.  After all, they’ve invested effort in responding to you.  It is rude not to respond back.

You may say the reverse is also true.  Recruiters don’t call me back.  Well, if you sent out spam to them (a resume that in no way, shape or form was close to fitting the job that you are submitting it for) why do you expect the call back?  After all, all you are doing is wasting their time.

However, if you said that a resume for job that you appear to fit AND you have gotten a call from 1 of them, or an email seeking clarification of some points, you have a fish on the hook! Reel it in!

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Do you think employers are trying to help you? You already know you can’t trust recruiters—they tell you as much as they think you need to know to take the job they after representing so they collect their payday.

The skills needed to find a job are different yet complement the skills needed to do a job.

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a career coach and recruiter for what seems like one hundred years.

JobSearchCoachingHQ.com changes that with great advice for job hunters—videos, my books and guides to job hunting, podcasts, articles, PLUS a community for you to ask questions of PLUS the ability to ask me questions where I function as your ally with no conflict of interest answering your questions.

Connect with me on LinkedIn

You can order a copy of “Diagnosing Your Job Search Problems” for Kindle for $.99 and receive free Kindle versions of “No BS Resume Advice” and “Interview Preparation.”

Don’t forget to give the show 5 stars and a good review in iTunes

Use Downtime to Listen and Learn – No BS Job Search Advice Radio

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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter encourages you to use your downtime to learn the skills you need to learn in order to find work

 

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Today, I want to encourage you to spend some time filling the void in your knowledge base about job hunting , and, specifically, about using podcasts.

I believe that the skills didn’t find the job are different than the ones needed to do the job.  They complement one another, but you can be tremendous talent at work but never get an interview, never get hired, because you don’t know how to get your resume read, write a great resume, interview well, get recruited on LinkedIn….On and on and on.

When all is said and done, it’s important for you to learn so that you can improve your job search skills.  You may have seen some of my YouTube videos; as of now, I have over 2000 videos about job search hiring.  There are other ways that you can use your “between activity time” (you are in the car, you are commuting, you are doing other things), you can up the ante and improve your skills.

Yes, I have lots of videos and so do other people.But there’s another way that you can listen and learn… Listen to podcasts.  After all, sometimes you’re in a place where watching isn’t appropriate.  Yes, I have to job search podcasts of my own – –Job Search Radio and No BS Job Search Advice Radio.They are both very good and has different content. Other people have some very good podcasts as well.  As a matter of fact, you can go back to the original Job Search Radio that was on terrestrial radioIn Los Angeles (it has a picture of 2 guys on the front image versus my show, which is a picture of me in the thumbnail).

So, for example, if you want to look for LinkedIn advice, go to iTunes or search the podcast directory that you prefer using an search by LinkedIn.  You may interview with Reid Hoffman, The founder of LinkedIn, because he’s been pretty prolific with making himself available for interviews and that may have nothing to do with using LinkedIn.  However, there are many podcasts shows that do talk about LinkedIn.  Listen to them.  If it is about resume writing, I know shows, as well. Whatever the topic, someone is done he podcasts to talk about it.  That’s where you can use your commuting time or off-hours time to learn some of the things you need to learn in order to find work.

Again, I do Job Search Radio and No BS Job Search Advice Radio that you can find in iTunes and other podcast directories, but I will also want to encourage you to listen to other people shows

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Do you think employers are trying to help you? You already know you can’t trust recruiters—they tell you as much as they think you need to know to take the job they after representing so they collect their payday.

The skills needed to find a job are different yet complement the skills needed to do a job.

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a career coach and recruiter for what seems like one hundred years.

JobSearchCoachingHQ.com changes that with great advice for job hunters—videos, my books and guides to job hunting, podcasts, articles, PLUS a community for you to ask questions of PLUS the ability to ask me questions where I function as your ally with no conflict of interest answering your questions.

Connect with me on LinkedIn

You can order a copy of “Diagnosing Your Job Search Problems” for Kindle for $.99 and receive free Kindle versions of “No BS Resume Advice” and “Interview Preparation.”

Don’t forget to give the show 5 stars and a good review in iTunes

The Music of Answering Questions – No BS Job Search Advice Radio

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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter explains the music of answering interview questions and why it’s important to end on a down note.

 

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Let me talk with you today about one of those things that people do in interviews goes past the point of being annoying to being harmful to your candidacy.  Let me illustrate why.

I’m speaking with someone yesterday and asking them a question. Every time they answered the question for me, Instead of ending a sentence in a downtown,they would answer it with an up tone (Listen to the audio to understand what I mean). So I would ask them a question (up tone) and he would always answer in an up. If you listen to the audio.  You’ll hear me illustrated a few times.

The impact of this is that employers when they interview someone and they ended and up find it harder to be convinced by the person they are interviewing because you just sound more uncertain and unsure. This air of uncertainty that you create by ending your phrases and sentences with an up tone makes you sound like you are unsure.

So, always end with a down tone on the last word.  If you have the habit of ending with an up tone, it is something to work on.  After all, the impact of this can be very expensive for you in lost salary and in lost opportunities.  After all, you just don’t sound convincing as to what you believe when they ask you something.

Again, go for a down tone instead of an up.

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Do you think employers are trying to help you? You already know you can’t trust recruiters—they tell you as much as they think you need to know to take the job they after representing so they collect their payday.

The skills needed to find a job are different yet complement the skills needed to do a job.

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a career coach and recruiter for what seems like one hundred years.

JobSearchCoachingHQ.com changes that with great advice for job hunters—videos, my books and guides to job hunting, podcasts, articles, PLUS a community for you to ask questions of PLUS the ability to ask me questions where I function as your ally with no conflict of interest answering your questions.

Connect with me on LinkedIn

You can order a copy of “Diagnosing Your Job Search Problems” for Kindle for $.99 and receive free Kindle versions of “No BS Resume Advice” and “Interview Preparation.”

Don’t forget to give the show 5 stars and a good review in iTunes

Two Ways to Use Twitter in Your Job Search

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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter discusses two ways to use Twitter has part of your job search.

 

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I want to talk with you today about using Twitter as part of your job search. I’m not going to explain what Twitter is; if you don’t know anything about it, you’re going to have to research it elsewhere.

I want to suggest two things for you:

1. Follow recruiters, headhunters, employment agencies and hiring managers at firms that you target. If they say something that is interesting to you, try to engage them in conversation. Especially with hiring managers, it becomes a way to create a favorable impression with them.

2. Use Twitter search to follow conversations that relate to your particular area of expertise. Let’s say, you are a Java developer, #java becomes a way that you can find conversations to follow.#javajobs or #java-jobs might be a way that you can find Java positions that you might fit.

Twitter is vastly underutilized for job hunting. There is a lot less competition on sweeter to get the attention of hiring managers and recruiters if you are trying to reach out to them through Twitter.

If you want to reach out to me by the way, my handle is @TheBigGameHuntr.

Follow me on Twitter. Follow me around the web.

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Do you think employers are trying to help you? You already know you can’t trust recruiters—they tell you as much as they think you need to know to take the job they after representing so they collect their payday.

The skills needed to find a job are different yet complement the skills needed to do a job.

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a career coach and recruiter for what seems like one hundred years.

JobSearchCoachingHQ.com changes that with great advice for job hunters—videos, my books and guides to job hunting, podcasts, articles, PLUS a community for you to ask questions of PLUS the ability to ask me questions where I function as your ally with no conflict of interest answering your questions.

Connect with me on LinkedIn

You can order a copy of “Diagnosing Your Job Search Problems” for Kindle for $.99 and receive free Kindle versions of “No BS Resume Advice” and “Interview Preparation.”

Don’t forget to give the show 5 stars and a good review in iTunes

Negotiating

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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter talks about the many things you can try to negotiate in the way of a job offer.

 

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We’re going to talk about negotiating today and looking at some of “the fringes” in a negotiation.

Often, people make a strategic mistake by receiving the offer and saying, “Yippee! I’m going to take it! This is fabulous,” when many firms expect there will be a negotiation (This is US-centric advice. In many other countries, negotiation is expected and normal).

So in negotiating salary, you have to not only consider the gross salary but your net salary. For example, if you work in the New York area but live in New Jersey, you have to look at the tax consequences of working in New York City, as well as your cost of commutation now that you are heading into the city. You may gross more but net less. So make sure you are looking at your net numbers and not just your gross ones.

Then, on the benefits side, you want to compare the cost of medical coverage, dental, vision, life, disability insurance, what’s the benefit to your 401K plan –how much can you put in and how much will be put in.  I have one client who will match 80% of what you  invest plus 3% of your total compensation. In effect, they are putting in more than you do.  Most firms match 50%.  Whatever it is, you need to know what it is.

What’s their vacation policy, personal days, religious holidays, sick leave policy, how they deal with maternity or paternity leaves, profit sharing and/or stock options, relocation, tuition reimbursement? Will they provide you with a company car and the ability to deduct expenses? Childcare coverage? A subsidized cafeteria?  Health club membership? Corporate discounts?

Although some things can’t be negotiated, many can be.

For example, you may be working for an organization without tuition reimbursement and the next firm will. You may be used to your firm paying memberships in professional groups and to attend specific events and conferences.  See if your new firm will pay for them.

When it comes time to do a negotiation, don’t always go to HR. They are usually there to say, “No.” They are the rules followers. Hiring managers will often do a negotiation and even if they can’t officially do something for you, they . We tend to be slower then.”may say to you, “Don’t sweat it. Take the week off at around this time.” Things like that you can often negotiate one on one with your new manager.

So, remember, there are lots of different items you can negotiate. Don’t ju, sound enthusiastic about joiningst run to HR. Go to the hiring manager and see if there are things that he or she can do to improve the offer.

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Do you think employers are trying to help you? You already know you can’t trust recruiters—they tell you as much as they think you need to know to take the job they after representing so they collect their payday.

The skills needed to find a job are different yet complement the skills needed to do a job.

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a career coach and recruiter for what seems like one hundred years.

JobSearchCoachingHQ.com changes that with great advice for job hunters—videos, my books and guides to job hunting, podcasts, articles, PLUS a community for you to ask questions of PLUS the ability to ask me questions where I function as your ally with no conflict of interest answering your questions.

Connect with me on LinkedIn

You can order a copy of “Diagnosing Your Job Search Problems” for Kindle for $.99 and receive free Kindle versions of “No BS Resume Advice” and “Interview Preparation.”

Don’t forget to give the show 5 stars and a good review in iTunes

The Costly Mistake Job Hunters Make

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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter discusses a  costly Job search mistake too many job hunters make.

 

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This is one of those difficult conversations for most people to hear because they don’t understand how this affects their success when interviewing.

More and more firms do phone or Skype  interviews for initial conversations but eventually, in most situations, you will be invited in for a face to face interview. I saw an article in the Washington Post that wrote about the impact of being out of work on anxiety. When people are out of work looking for jobs or even just looking for jobs and ARE working, they become more anxious because they’re nervous about their interviews and nervous about getting a job and one of the things that happens is that people start to gain weight.

This is an awkward conversation to have but one of the affects of gaining weight is that your clothing doesn’t fit properly and that (this isn’t just for men; it’s for women, too) your shirts or blouses don’t fit properly , your suits don’t fit properly , things just don’t look as well on you.

This is hard advice for me to give because I struggle with my weight and yo yo my weight regularly but, the fact is, you have to watch your weight and, if you’ve noticed yourself putting on a pound or two, you have to do the things necessary to lose that weight before it becomes 5 or 6. After all, things just don’t look as well on you. The space between the buttons is going to start pulling. You won’t be able to button your jacket if you’re a man and present yourself as well. People will notice your trouser button pulling.

And if you don’t think people will notice, you are very very mistaken.

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Do you think employers are trying to help you? You already know you can’t trust recruiters—they tell you as much as they think you need to know to take the job they after representing so they collect their payday.

The skills needed to find a job are different yet complement the skills needed to do a job.

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a career coach and recruiter for what seems like one hundred years.

JobSearchCoachingHQ.com changes that with great advice for job hunters—videos, my books and guides to job hunting, podcasts, articles, PLUS a community for you to ask questions of PLUS the ability to ask me questions where I function as your ally with no conflict of interest answering your questions.

Connect with me on LinkedIn

You can order a copy of “Diagnosing Your Job Search Problems” for Kindle for $.99 and receive free Kindle versions of “No BS Resume Advice” and “Interview Preparation.”

Don’t forget to give the show 5 stars and a good review in iTunes