Wednesday, August 31
Tuesday, August 30
Body odor, Rick James and why I'm going to start telling all of my candidates to wear a shirt AND a tie...
14 Job Interview Disasters by Alyson Shontell @ Business Insider
When you're job hunting, you're in a vulnerable position. You have to be on top of your game and really know your stuff to wow a potential boss.
Unfortunately, not everyone nails their interviews. Nerves can get the better of you, or your interviewer (or interviewee for that matter) can be a down-right jerk.
We asked readers for their worst interview failures, and we got some pretty amusing stories.
From an interviewer whose candidate left him a smelly surprise to a girl who forgot her own phone number and started cursing, we've brought you twelve hilarious tales that will scare you into being prepared for your next job search.
For the full list, check out the article, but here are a few of our favorites:
Lehman Brothers asked, "What's the cubed root of 1,000" and then started counting down from five.
This interviewer left the room for one minute and came back to a horrid stench
This person spent his entire interview being forced to create small talk with a competing candidate
This person interviewed a candidate who cut him off to take a long-winded phone call
As they were offering this man the job, his cell phone rang: 'I'm Rick James, B*itch"
This woman's worried husband gave her potential boss a call during the interview
Monday, August 29
Weekly Wisdom: Are Top Salespeople Born or Made?
by Steve W. Martin for the Harvard Business Review
My last post on the "Seven Personality Traits of Top Salespeople" was based on personality tests administered to 1,000 top business-to-business salespeople. The test results indicate that key personality traits directly influence top performers' selling styles, and, in turn, their success. However, the study also raises the perennial question, "Are top salespeople born or made?" In other words, must top salespeople be born with the prerequisite sales instincts, or can someone learn to become successful in sales without them?
Based upon my research, experience, and observations, I estimate over 70 percent of top salespeople are born with "natural" instincts that play a critical role in determining their sales success. Conversely, less than 30 percent of top salespeople are self-made — meaning, they have had to learn how to become top salespeople without the benefit of these natural abilities. In addition, for every 100 people who enter sales without natural sales traits, 40 percent will fail or quit, 40 percent will perform at near average, and only 20 percent will be above average (These figures vary by industry and the complexity of products sold).
Based on the figures above, the real question that should be asked is, "What determines whether or not a self-made salesperson will become successful?" While it's easy to recite a laundry list of general reasons for success (hard work, persistence, intelligence, integrity, empathy, etc.), my experience in the field and the research I've conducted indicates four key factors that determine the self-made salesperson's destiny. They are language specialization, "modeling" of experiences, political acumen, and greed.
Language Specialization
The first differentiating factor between the success or failure of the self-made salesperson is language specialization. While all competent salespeople can recite their product's features and business benefits, very few are mavens who can conduct intelligent conversations about the details of daily business operations. Every industry also has developed its own technical language to facilitate mutual understanding of terminology and an exact meaning of the words used throughout a business. The technical language consists of abbreviations, acronyms, business nomenclature, and specialized terms (for example RAM, CPU, and flash drive in the consumer electronics industry).
Language Specialization
The first differentiating factor between the success or failure of the self-made salesperson is language specialization. While all competent salespeople can recite their product's features and business benefits, very few are mavens who can conduct intelligent conversations about the details of daily business operations. Every industry also has developed its own technical language to facilitate mutual understanding of terminology and an exact meaning of the words used throughout a business. The technical language consists of abbreviations, acronyms, business nomenclature, and specialized terms (for example RAM, CPU, and flash drive in the consumer electronics industry).
Successful self-made salespeople possess domain-area expertise and speak the corresponding business operations language, or have deep knowledge of the industry's technical language. These languages are the yardstick by which customers measure a salesperson's true value and greatly influence their purchase decisions. Lesser-performing self-made salespeople are not as fluent in these languages, so they tend to focus on likability and friendliness with prospective customers.
Modeling of Experiences
Modeling is the mind's ability to link like experiences and similar data into predictable patterns. Salespeople continually learn through the ongoing accumulation and consolidation of information from their sales calls and interactions with customers. From this knowledge base, salespeople can predict what will happen and what they should do in light of what they have done in the past.
Modeling of Experiences
Modeling is the mind's ability to link like experiences and similar data into predictable patterns. Salespeople continually learn through the ongoing accumulation and consolidation of information from their sales calls and interactions with customers. From this knowledge base, salespeople can predict what will happen and what they should do in light of what they have done in the past.
Modeling can be thought of as the engine that drives sales intuition. For example, let's say a salesperson is asked by a skeptical, analytical, financial-oriented prospective customer how his product is different from his major competitor's. His answer would be based on previous experiences with similar circumstances. Modeling can be thought of as trying to find the what, when, where response — what you should do when you are in a particular circumstance where you have to act.
Successful self-made salespeople have an effective methodology to store and retrieve all the verbal, nonverbal, factual, and intuitive information that occurs during sales calls and sales cycles. This results in a greater proficiency to win business than less-successful self-made salespeople who do not learn from their past mistakes and instead repeat them.
Political Acumen
Unfortunately, many under-performing self-made salespeople take a textbook-type approach to sales and concentrate solely on the procedural aspects of the sales cycle. They don't take into account the human nature of sales and how people and politics determine the outcome.
Unfortunately, many under-performing self-made salespeople take a textbook-type approach to sales and concentrate solely on the procedural aspects of the sales cycle. They don't take into account the human nature of sales and how people and politics determine the outcome.
Politics are based upon self-interests. Therefore, customers do not readily reveal the internal machinations of their decision-making. Political acumen is the ability to correctly map out each decision maker's influence and motivations. Successful self-made salespeople consider this their top priority. Political acumen drives winning account strategy whereas strategic planning without political acumen is a losing proposition.
Greed
We normally associate greed with a corrupt character or miserly scrooge. While this may be society's definition, in sales, "greed" takes on an entirely different meaning. In sales, greed and self-respect are closely intertwined. Greed can be thought of as the desire to be fairly paid for one's time. Time is a salesperson's enemy because time is finite. Time is the governor that determines how many deals can be worked and where effort should be focused. Salespeople are on a mission to learn the ultimate truth, "Will I win the deal?" Greed compels the successful self-made salespeople to push themselves beyond their comfort zone and ask difficult qualifying questions while continually pushing for the close. Conversely, the lesser successful self-made salespeople do not possess this inward drive.
We normally associate greed with a corrupt character or miserly scrooge. While this may be society's definition, in sales, "greed" takes on an entirely different meaning. In sales, greed and self-respect are closely intertwined. Greed can be thought of as the desire to be fairly paid for one's time. Time is a salesperson's enemy because time is finite. Time is the governor that determines how many deals can be worked and where effort should be focused. Salespeople are on a mission to learn the ultimate truth, "Will I win the deal?" Greed compels the successful self-made salespeople to push themselves beyond their comfort zone and ask difficult qualifying questions while continually pushing for the close. Conversely, the lesser successful self-made salespeople do not possess this inward drive.
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Are top salespeople born or made? The true answer is that the overwhelming majority of top salespeople are gifted with innate talents. However, many others are self-made successes who have learned how to apply their language specialization and build their intuition. They know what accounts they should spend their time on and always navigate to powerful decision-makers in order to create the opportunity to persuade them to buy.
Friday, August 26
Thursday, August 25
Hot Jobs Roundup!
We try to have a little something for everyone. This feature is designed to highlight the positions where we've identified a motivated client who is committed to making a speedy hire for the right candidate. Submit your resume to Kate for immediate consideration or call 434-817-5300 x 220.
1. Enterprise Sales, West! One of our perennial favorites is looking for an experienced C-level sales expert to cover a western territory selling award-winning solutions to 150+ provider practices and AMCs. This client offers a generous compensation package and great opportunity for career growth.
2. Revenue Cycle Sales! Our two largest clients are in search of talented sales executives with an understanding of enterprise revenue cycle management solutions and experience closing big business with hospitals and health systems. Anyone in the central states or out west will be considered!
3. They're Everywhere! This client is well-known, progressive, has a great company culture and a reputation for being the company all your friends want to work for. Multiple openings in PM/EHR sales (expansion roles) across the US calling on the 1-10 provider market.
4. Boston-area Startup! One of our newest clients is bringing the benefits and potential of social media to the healthcare field by creating an online community for physicians. The product is finished, it has paying customers, now it needs a marketing expert to help build a brand and overall strategy. Take advantage of this tremendous growth opportunity, executive level equity and the chance to help build something from the ground up. Local candidates only, please.
Wednesday, August 24
Wildcard: 60 Behavioral Interview Questions
- Tell me about a time when you were a member of a great team. What role did you play in making the team great?
- Tell me about a time when you were given a task to accomplish without any direction.
- Tell me about a time when you had to work with someone you did not get along with.
- Tell me about a time when you felt that a decision was unfair. How did you handle it?
- Tell me about a time when someone asked you for assistance outside the parameters of your job. What did you do?
- Tell me about a time you had to multitask.
- Tell me about a time when you were creative in solving a problem.
- Tell me about a time when you were the leader of a team and the team disagreed with your decision. How did you handle it?
- Tell me about a time when you were a team leader and had to mediate with members who disagreed with each other.
- Tell me about a project that did not go well.
- Tell me about a time that you worked hard to accomplish something but didn’t.
- Tell me about a time when you suggested a better way to do something.
- Tell me about a time when you had to handle conflict within your group.
- You are a team member and you disagree with an important decision that you believe will have a negative impact on the project. How will you proceed?
- Tell me about a time when someone told you that you had made an error. Describe how you would react and what you would say in your defense.
- You are a new employee at our firm and I have asked you to speak to a group of 10 employees. What would you talk about and what would you say?
- You are part of a team working on a project with a one-week deadline. The team leader does not seem to be on top of things and you are worried about reaching the deadline. What do you do?
- How do you handle a crisis? Describe one that you handled well.
- Describe one that you didn’t handle well and what you would have done differently.
- It’s five o’clock on Friday and your supervisor gives you an assignment that needs to be finished by 8:00 am Monday morning. You have plans to be away for the weekend. What do you do?
- Describe a situation that was a great learning experience.
- Describe a challenge you faced in school and how you handled it.
- Describe an experience that you felt was rewarding.
- Describe a situation where you were mentored.
- Describe a situation where you were given feedback on your performance that wasn’t what you had hoped for.
- Describe a situation where you resolved a problem.
- What would your last boss/manager say about you?
- How would your co-workers describe you?
- What do you think is the best part of working in teams?
- What do you think is the worst part of working in a team?
- How do you define “work ethic”? How would you describe yours?
- How do you make decisions?
- What type of people do you like to work with?
- What motivates you?
- Give me 10 adjectives to describe yourself.
- How do you like to be managed?
- Tell me about your best manager. Why do you consider them the “best”?
- Tell me about your worst manager. Why do you consider them the “worst”?
- What book are you reading now?
- What books have you read about leadership?
- Describe your ideal job.
- What was the most creative thing you have ever done?
- What are you most proud of?
- How do you handle stress at work?
- What would you liked to have done more of in your last internship?
- What would you like to have done less of in your last internship?
- Why did you choose your last job/internship?
- Why did you choose your school?
- If you could have done anything different during your college career, what would it have been?
- What are your short- and long-term career goals?
- In what areas would you like to develop further?
- What skills did it take to succeed in your internships?
- What do you know about our company?
- What makes you the best candidate?
- Why should we hire you?
- What made you apply for this job?
- Where else are you interviewing?
- How would you describe client satisfaction?
- What do you think is most important in great customer service?
- What will you do if you don’t get this job?
Tuesday, August 23
So, you didn't get the job--at least YOU didn't fall asleep during the interview!
Great Places to Work: Interview Horror Stories
The funniest job interview mishaps
Published Tuesday, November 01, 2005 | www.washingtonian.com
We asked area recruiters and employees: What's the funniest job-interview mistake you've seen or heard about?
Common themes emerged. Some job candidates answer cell phones during interviews. A surprising number ask the interviewer out on a date. A few too many fall asleep mid-interview. Several are so nervous or unprepared that they forget the company name, the position they are applying for, or the interviewer's name.
Some other tales:
Wardrobe Malfunctions
"I was interviewing in the spring and had horrible allergies. I was sitting in front of my prospective employer, and I started to sneeze. The button from my skirt shot across the room. The employer never missed a beat. When the interview was over he walked me to the door, picked up my button, and shook my hand goodbye."
--Deb McDonald, Systems Planning and Analysis
"A guy who forgot dark socks to wear with his suit colored in his ankles with a black felt-tip marker."
--Scott Langerman, Comcast SportsNet
"The candidate was sitting with her legs crossed and swinging one leg. Her shoe flew off and underneath the interviewer's desk. She never said a word about it. The interviewer knew what happened because the shoe hit his foot, but he never said a word. She got her shoe back at the end of theinterview."
--Angela McGlawn, Edelman Financial Services
Make Yourself Comfortable?
"The candidate mentioned that she had not had an opportunity to eat and began unpacking a lunch on my desk. She unpacked a china plate, a set of silverware, a cloth napkin, and a beautiful salad."
--Deirdre Appel, Mortgage Bankers Association
"A candidate complained during the interview that she was hot. She then said 'Excuse me' and proceeded to remove her socks. After placing them on the desk, she continued as if everything was normal."
--Wende R. Hoffman Pineda, B.F. Saul Company
"I once had a person clip her fingernails while we were speaking."
--Jackie Rucker, Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts
Come Again?
"The candidate said that by crossing the Maryland state line he was in violation of his probation but felt the interview was worth risking possible jail time."
--Jim Solomone, Software AG
"Someone was asked what person they would most like to meet, living or dead, and their response was the living one."
--Susan Potisek, Weinberg Group
"I was interviewing someone who took a cell-phone call and asked me to leave my office while they talked."
--William Lyle, Systems Planning and Analysis
Grace Under Pressure
"A friend was being interviewed in a small office, and his chair was flanked by a floor-to-ceiling bookshelf. The interviewer asked my friend a question. My friend leaned back in his chair and paused, gathering his thoughts. As he leaned forward, his interviewer's eyes went wide. Books cascaded down, with the crashing bookshelf narrowly missing his head."
--Kevin Keegan, Software AG
"A nervous interviewee came into my office, and in the middle of the handshake he accidentally spit his gum out in my face."
--Yolanda Evans, Project Performance Corporation
In a Jam
"My friend was racing to an interview. She flipped off another driver who blocked her car in the garage. The other driver ignored her, so she started honking and shouting obscenities. She finally got her car parked. She ran upstairs to the interview. The other driver was the owner of the company who was interviewing her."
--Kelley McCormick, Qorvis Communications
"After being interviewed for three hours, I had the office staff search everywhere for my car keys. Come to find that I had left them in the ignition with the doors unlocked."
--Elias Zarkadoulas, HireStrategy
"An applicant had taken a cab from the airport hotel. He had a dispute with the driver over the fare. Unsatisfied with the amount of money he received, the cab driver called the police. The job interview was interrupted by one of our security officers, who had to escort the applicant to the lobby where he was asked by police to pay the cab driver the remaining fare."
--Stacy Murphy, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
No Joke
"One interviewee made a West Virginia joke only to discover the person was from West Virginia."
--Kelly Anderson, Allied Capital
"The applicant spoke very negatively about his previous boss, only to find out that the interviewer for the new position was the daughter-in-law of the old boss."
--Reginald Humphries, Axiom Resource Management
"Someone going on an interview for an administrative-assistant position went to the company next door to the one she was supposed to be interviewing for. She went in and asked for 'the CEO' (she forgot the CEO's name). The CEO was so impressed with her that he offered her a job. She is still working for that company."
--R.J. Jenkins, Tangent Corporation
Is Honesty Best?
"When a candidate was asked about his greatest accomplishment, he replied that it was writing a short novel. When the interviewer said, 'No, I mean something you did while at work,' the candidate replied, 'But I did write it while at work!' "
--Rick Sherman, Mitretek Systems
"At a previous firm, while interviewing candidates for mailroom positions, we met a gentleman who made a very interesting wardrobe choice. What we thought was a pale yellow scarf tied beautifully around his neck was actually his pet snake, Herbie. When asked whether he thought it appropriate to bring a snake to an interview, he said that he was trying to set himself apart. We discussed the possible shortcomings to his decision, and because he was so honest, he ended up getting the job."
--Kristine Barr-Ouedraogo, GHT Limited
Monday, August 22
Weekly Wisdom: Not-So-Secret Handshake
By Debra Donston-Miller @ www.theladders.com
Increasingly, recruiters represent the bridge between you and placement with a company. Build that bridge, and you may find yourself presented with opportunities you never even considered. Burn that bridge, and ... Well, we all know what happens when we burn bridges.
Increasingly, recruiters represent the bridge between you and placement with a company. Build that bridge, and you may find yourself presented with opportunities you never even considered. Burn that bridge, and ... Well, we all know what happens when we burn bridges.
TheLadders collected the advice of recruiters and those who have worked successfully with recruiters to provide recommendations for forging effective, long-term relationships that can lead to promising new professional opportunities.
- Understand the recruiter's job and your own qualifications
- Know whether you are working with an internal or external recruiter
- Be proactive
- Don't be short-sighted
- Be respectful and polite
- Be mindful of the recruiter's time
- Treat your conversations with the recruiter like you would any other interview
- Consider constructive criticism
- Provide referrals
Friday, August 19
Coming soon...
Mondays
The Return of Weekly Wisdom
Tuesdays
New! Say Anything: cringe-worthy stories and important lessons for those of us who learn by example
Wednesdays
New! Wildcard...because who doesn't love a good surprise?
Thursdays
Weekly Hot Jobs Roundup -- a preview of the coming week's search activity
Fridays
This Week in Healthcare IT
Mark your calendar and stop by to see what's new.
The Return of Weekly Wisdom
Tuesdays
New! Say Anything: cringe-worthy stories and important lessons for those of us who learn by example
Wednesdays
New! Wildcard...because who doesn't love a good surprise?
Thursdays
Weekly Hot Jobs Roundup -- a preview of the coming week's search activity
Fridays
This Week in Healthcare IT
Mark your calendar and stop by to see what's new.
The Return of...This Week in Healthcare IT
courtesy of ihealthbeat.org
Back by popular demand, this week's edition is hot off the presses!
M&A, Financial Reports and Funding
Axiom Systems, a health IT company, has acquired Ivertex Internet Solutions, an administrative software company, for an undisclosed sum...General Dynamics, a defense contractor, will acquire Vangent Holding, a provider of health IT systems and services to military and other federal agencies, for about $960 million in cash.
Quality Systems, a hospital and physician software vendor, will acquire CQI Solutions, a vendor of surgical information systems, for an undisclosed sum...technology firm Hewlett-Packard has reached a deal to acquire Autonomy, an information management systems provider that serves the health care industry, for $42.11 per share.
Contracts
United Regional Health Care System in Texas will implement iSirona's device connectivity system...the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization and the Colorado Regional Extension Center have selected BridgeFront as a preferred e-learning provider...Volunteers in Medicine in Indiana will offer its patients NoMoreClipboard's personal health record system.
Lakewood Health System in Minnesota has chosen McKesson's health information system...MedPlast, a provider of thermoplastic medical devices, has selected StorSimple's cloud storage system...Stamford Hospital in Connecticut will deploy the SmartRoom patient data integration platform developed by University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and IBM...The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded a $3.4 million contract to Beacon Enterprise Solutions Group to develop real-time locating systems for VA hospitals.
Australia has selected Accenture to establish the country's nationwide PHR system...the Maine Medical Center Physician-Hospital Organization has selected athenahealth's practice management, billing and EHR services...the University of Chicago Medical Center will implement Omnicell's medication and supply management and analytics tools...Oregon State University Student Health Services has selected eMix's cloud-based medical imaging sharing service.
Product Development and Marketing
THA Group, an in-home health company in Georgia and South Carolina, is partnering with telehealth services provider Cardiocom to offer a telehealth program for patients with chronic conditions...NaviNet, a provider of mobile health care management tools, will offer health care providers in Aetna's Florida network access to clinical and patient alerts and e-prescribing services for smartphones and tablets.
Product Development Technologies -- a worldwide product development firm -- and SoftServe -- a provider of software development, testing and consulting services -- are collaborating on medical product development to support the meaningful use of health IT...InterSystems, a provider of coordinated care software, and information software provider Medical Systems are launching an EHR and practice management application for community health centers.
Personnel
Graham Hughes -- a former GE Healthcare executive -- has been named chief medical officer for the SAS Center for Health Analytics and Insights, a provider of business intelligence software and services...Christine Bechtel -- vice president of the National Partnership for Women and Families and a member of the Health IT Policy Committee -- has been named to the editorial advisory board of the Commission for Case Manager Certification's new online educational resource...James Mathews -- former business development and government initiatives representative at Sage Healthcare -- has been named vice president of business development at Kareo, a provider of medical billing software.
Thursday, August 18
There's no such thing as extended shelf life...
A family friend recently lost his position through a layoff after never having taken a sick day in 30+ years with his company. As disheartening as it is to continue to hear these stories a year after it felt like things were really turning around, what he said he plans to do for the next six months was not just astounding…it was downright horrifying. Avid sportsman that he is, he is seriously considering spending this winter in his hunting cabin instead of looking for a new position. While he deserves a little rest and relaxation as much as anyone does, I can’t emphasize enough what a huge risk he would be taking by putting off his job search.
I don’t mean to sound glum. Healthcare IT is booming, but that success is not spread equally across the market and there are other industries still lagging behind. And while things are definitely better than they were 12 or 18 months ago, employment gaps are still a problem for most hiring managers. Think about it: given two people with nearly equal qualifications, are you more likely to hire the person who is currently employed or the person who got laid off 9 months ago, took 6 months to travel or play golf, completely disconnected from the working world and now finds him/herself desperate to find a new position (any position) to pay the bills?
Which candidate would you invest in—the one who is looking to build on his/her career or the one with nothing left to lose?
Still don’t believe me? Think about this…
People are finding themselves out of work for much longer periods than they used to; they have to be more proactive, get creative, in order to even get a phone interview.
And after 6 months, you can forget working with a recruiter; some clients categorically refuse to consider candidates who are out of work, others simply refuse to pay for ones who have been out of work for “too long.”
You’re at an even greater disadvantage if, like this guy, you’ve been with the same company since the Carter Administration. You will face unique, and most likely significant, challenges as you embark on your job search…and many of them will come in the form of younger, cheaper, and often more educated jobseekers.
But don’t lose hope—there are still plenty of jobs out there, the difficulty these days is standing out from the crowd, so do something (professional) to get noticed. Need an example? Check out Matthew Epstein's website, googlepleasehire.me; one young marketer’s anything but conventional approach to getting noticed by one of the most sought after employers in America.
Maybe a tongue-in-cheek short film/video resume isn’t your style. Here are some other recommendations:
- start early—don’t wait until your savings run out to start your search
- be creative
- keep a positive attitude
- pick up the phone
- network, network, and network some more
- and, of course, call your recruiter the moment you get the news
written by Kate Harlow, Strategic Sourcing Manager @ TMG
Wednesday, August 17
Why are Manholes Round? The 10 Toughest Interview Questions
by Meghan Casserly, courtesy of Forbes.com
Why are manhole covers round? How do you measure 4 gallons of water using only a 3 and 5 gallon jug? How many gas stations/dogs/windowpanes are there in the United States? According to career communityGlassdoor.com, these are a few of the more obscure queries asked of wannabe Googlers.
You have to give it to them, the questions are creative. But are they effective in finding the right candidate? And more importantly, will answering them correctly land you a job?
“This kind of question is used to determine poise and the ability to think on one’s feet,” says Dale Austin, director of career services at Michigan’s Hope College. “But also to assess creativity and problem-solving.” In other words, Google is looking for a quick answer that proves you’re not only agile but logical, adaptable and math-minded.
That’s all well and good for the analytical minds of Googlers, but veteran Bay-area executive headhunterChuck Pappalardo says it really all depends on what you’re looking for. For Google, whose ranks Pappalardo describes as “engineer from top to bottom,” they can prove telling. “These kinds of questions measure whether someone can work in the crazy environment [of a young tech firm] and have the right engineering background to make them a good employee. They show quick, analytical thinking, and the ability to pivot.”
But what these “trick” questions can’t highlight is a quality that Pappalardo sees as not only more human, but more vital to the majority of careers–positions where customer or client interaction is essential. That quality? Integrity.
“A good interview requires more than just good questions. It also requires a deep understanding of the traits and behaviors you’re seeking or avoiding,” he says. “By crafting questions designed to elicit “evidence” of the desired characteristics, you’re able to draw conclusions about candidates’ ability to perform in an authentic and meaningful way.”
Fine, if you’re on the questioning side of the desk. But for those of us in the hot seat, prepping for questions designed to “elicit characteristics” can be quite tricky. Pappalardo concedes they can be among the most difficult to answer, because they require much more than rattling off resume points. Here, the 10 toughest—but most telling– interview questions, and best of all…how to answer them.
Read the questions and learn the reasoning behind them here.
Thursday, August 11
The Door Is Opening and People Are Leaving
An interesting article written by Kevin Wheeler, President and Founder of Global Learning Resources, Inc., addresses the challenges employers are about to face when it comes to holding on to top talent. Sobering fact for businesses:
“one in two U.S. employees [are] looking to leave or [have] checked out on the job.”
Read it here.
Friday, August 5
HOT JOB ALERT!
One of TMG's newest clients is a hot Healthcare IT startup based in the Boston area and we have been asked to assist them in identifying a VP of Marketing.
- Do you have experience in a startup environment? Marketing to physicians? Working with software solutions?
- Do you have a passion for building and promoting technology solutions that improve patient care and enhance provider networks and communications?
- Do you live in or have the ability/desire to relocate to the greater Boston area?
CALL KATE for additional details or immediate consideration!
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