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If you didn't secure your dream job at interview, what next?
| Guest post by: Bill Wynn |
Article Overview: Bill Wynn, Managing Director of Project Resource Limited offers a few tips for interviewees.
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If you didn't secure your dream job at interview, what next?
As someone in the privileged position of Internal Recruiter, I am tasked with attracting and selecting the most talented sales people and graduates to join our company as Recruitment Consultants. I am often put in a position where I am making decisions which affect an applicant's whole life and future. With everyone I interview, I am open to them and am hoping for them to be right for our organisation, sadly people are not always successful. We have exceptionally high recruitment standards and it is not uncommon for me to telephone interview sixty people in a week and invite no more than 1 or 2 in for a face to face meeting with us. As with many successful organisations there is serious competition to secure a position with us.
To give CV or interview feedback every individual who hasn't successfully passed this first telephone interview stage simply isn't viable, however, I can suggest a few helpful tips:
- Research: find out about the organisation interviewing you;
- Prepare: devise a thorough preparation programme in the days leading up to an interview; and
- Be yourself: develop a natural presentation style that leaves your interviewers wanting more.
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About the Author: Bill Wynn RSS for Bill's articles - Visit Bill's website Bill is a joint Managing Director of Project Resource Limited, a high growth recruitment business. Bill focuses on business efficiency, business promotion, improving business and team performance, business growth, competitive edge, talent management and acquisition and instilling Positive Mental Attitude (PMA).
Bill has a 1st class honours degree, achieved at Brunel University. After graduating Bill became a lecturer of A levels for a short time, before starting his recruitment career.
Bill is a determined businessman who is dedicated to his family, team and customers. He aspires to achieve perfection in all he does and endeavours to get the highest standards from others. Bill is interested in business partnerships, working with growth companies, professional companies that mirror the professional standards that Project Resource adheres.
"There are no barriers to building a really great company with the management and team involved at Project Resource. Our management team is more capable than any other I have worked with; we all care passionately about what we do and how that impacts our customers. All of our team make substantial investments in the company; it's easy to understand why our people go the extra mile." Project Resource Recruitment Agency
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Re: Quote of the Day - "Believe in your dream." - Dave Thomas (
- Hi GT - I think that's very true.
I would also say that sometimes our dreams are mis-aligned. Many people dream of making a lot of money but when that's your only goal, it rarely happens. The most successful entrepreneurs have a dream of a world they want to create and products and services they want to offer to help people. That's a dream that can get you out of bed early and start working!
I don't use hi...
- I use, Dear __________ (whatever their surname is).
But then, I'm generallyasking for an interview from an author, filmmaker, etc., so I believe in being formal, until they give me permission to use their first name. Usually, if they respond at all, they agree to give me an interview and call me by my first name, so then we get on a first name basis. And 99% of people I approach do agree to an interview...which is nice.... Everybody likes to talk about themselves!
Nana excercise
- Nana > answer the following:
1. If you had no chance of failure what would you dream to be your ideal Job or Business?
2. What about this dream excites you?
3. What Field of Study (Major) will get you closer to this dream?
4. What other Field of Study would "compliment" (Minor) your dream to get you closer to it.
REMEMBER: there is no wrong answer.
I'm hoping this exercise will help place you in a program that makes you excited at a "most probable likely" future.
Your answers will help open a dialogue on the forum.
Getting financed
- It has always been my experience that it will always be better to be in business debt rather than personal debt, but I suppose when you can run your business out of your home and have so little overhead, it could be better to simply finance yourself and secure a business line of credit just in case you need it. On the flip side, when it comes to businesses outside the home, you want to secure financing and SBA is probably the way to go (depending upon what your total project will cost). Banks that provide SBA loan products prefer the loan be 100K or more. Then there are Micro Loans (loans that go up to 35K) and Signature Loans that are unsecured loans and mainly based on your credit score (680 or higher), they can finance anything in between and then some. It's been said in some of my other posts that when you obtain business loans its beneficial because you are building a track record with a lender for future use. Should you get financed via a business loan and later you need additional working capital to keep your business going (or to expand) the lender is going to be more apt to help you because they have already taken on the risk of your loan. Now, they would prefer you better yourself whether it be expansion or to pull yourself out of a hole so you do not default on the 1st loan... and if that means helping you further, believe me they will do it. However, if you finance yourself, who's going to help you with additional working capital if you run into trouble? Lenders won't help you because you financed yourself...they tend to take on the attitude that you didnt need them before, so why now? What if you had originally financed yourslef with home equity and still haven't paid it back...now you have a first mortgage a second or Home Equity line of Credit and your business is in touble and you have no way out.
Re: Interview on the Lynn Johnson Radio Show
- Hi Alan,
Well done on getting the interview slot on the show, that will give your business some great exposure. I will listen to the interview later today and will leave a comment on your blog,
regards,
Mal.
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