{"id":32,"date":"2006-05-16T13:42:24","date_gmt":"2006-05-16T18:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=32"},"modified":"2006-05-16T13:42:24","modified_gmt":"2006-05-16T18:42:24","slug":"interview-tips-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/05\/interview-tips-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview Tips &#8211; Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The online training of candidates continues.  This time, monster.com offers up <a href=\"http:\/\/featuredreports.monster.com\/firstjob\/interviewprep\/?WT.mc_n=rss2005_DMM\" target=\"_blank\">Interview Prep Tips<\/a> which provides a general overview of strategy for a successful interview (from the candidate&#8217;s side).  If you follow the link for Closing the Interview you will end up <a href=\"http:\/\/interview.monster.com\/articles\/closing\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.  This complementary article is excellent advice for sales candidates to close an interview strongly.  One approach we value is found in bullet #4:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ask about the next step in the process.  It&#8217;s important for you to know the next step so you can follow up.  Ask for the decision date.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sound advice&#8230;and you would be shocked how infrequently this question occurs among sales candidates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The online training of candidates continues. This time, monster.com offers up Interview Prep Tips which provides a general overview of strategy for a successful interview (from the candidate&#8217;s side). If you follow the link for Closing the Interview you will end up here. This complementary article is excellent advice for sales candidates to close an interview strongly. One approach we value is found in bullet #4: Ask about the next step in the process. It&#8217;s important for you to know the next step so you can follow up. Ask for the decision date. Sound advice&#8230;and you would be shocked how infrequently this question occurs among sales candidates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,10,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiring","category-interview","category-sales"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-w","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":55,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/05\/interview-tips-part-4\/","url_meta":{"origin":32,"position":0},"title":"Interview Tips &#8211; Part 4","author":"Lee Fratzke","date":"May 25, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"As an employer, how much prep time do you put in before interviewing a candidate? 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