Google brought me to this British site – Onrec.com and their article Interview Faux Pas. Here are my 2 favorites from the somewhat strange list: 1. Know the job you’re being interviewed for. After an otherwise quite successful interview for a telesales job, one graduate stunned the panel with the phrase: “Oh and by the way I don’t do cold calling.” 8. Prepare your questions. At the end of her questions, an interviewer posed the question; “okay, you can ask me one question and one question only” to the interviewee. After much procrastination, the young lady took a deep breath, calmed her nerves and asked “Are you going anywhere nice… Read More
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Your website. Straight from Selling Power’s article Hiring Generation Y: The most powerful recruiting tool for Generation Y is a company’s Website, says Lloyd. Websites need to be up-to-date, engaging, and constantly evolving. “If you demonstrate the latest technology, you will impress this group,” says Lloyd. We just placed a salesperson for a customer who did not have a live website. They were reworking the site to tie in with their other companies and I can tell you it was a real stretch. Not only did this company not have a website, they did not have any noticable digital identity. They appeared to be ethereal. Thankfully they brought their new… Read More
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