Interview

Great vs. Terrible Questions to Ask your Interviewer

  • On July 31, 2020
You can impress your interviewer if you ask good questions. End the interview on a positive note by showing your research and interest! Plus, you can get dinged by failing to ask any questions or putting the interviewer on edge with critical ones. Forbes recently came up with a huge list of questions interviewees should […]
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Interview, Presentation

Handling Hidden Social Advantage in the Job Process

  • On June 26, 2020
The Stanford Graduate School of Business reports that we respond to the (over) confidence of upper-class workers, even when they’re wrong. The result is “we may be reinforcing an already unfair social hierarchy” since rich confident people have an immediate advantage when walking into the room. “We can’t help but fall for their bravado, endowing them […]
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Interview, Job Search

3 Trends in the Time of COVID

  • On May 3, 2020
Here are three things I’m seeing while recruiting during COVID: Video conference interviews are taking the place of in-person interviews. I am guessing that even after COVID, interviewers will replace initial phone screens with video conference calls. Prior to COVID, only a handful of interviews were conducted by video conference, and I recall having to […]
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Interview

Interviewing During Pandemic: 5 Tips for Video Conference

  • On April 6, 2020
Interviews are hard, phone interviews are harder, and videoconferencing is hardest of all because of potential technology and performance problems. Give it your best shot by doing these 5 things: Before the call, troubleshoot the technology, and practice on that platform or videoconferencing in general. Find a quiet, well-lit spot. Figure out where to set […]
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Career Tips, Interview, LinkedIn

Five Questions Lawyers Always Ask Me

  • On December 8, 2019
I help lawyers get jobs, so they ask me a lot of questions. Five I often get: Is it really that helpful to post a picture on LinkedIn? You may want to protect your privacy, but the odds are overwhelming that pictures of you are already floating out there over the Internet. Plus, you really […]
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Interview, Presentation

#1 Way to Be Persuasive (& It’s Easy!)

  • On November 17, 2019
Lawyers love words but often mess up the delivery by speaking too fast or in a drone. I always tell lawyers to vary their speed and volume for the best effect when in important face-to-face meetings like interviews. And now I love it when science backs me up — changing up your cadence and volume indeed […]
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Awkward Pauses in Interviews

  • On November 1, 2019
This recent post on how to handle awkward pauses in interviews made me laugh, but the struggle is real. What should you do when your interviewer is weird and has super long pauses? I agree with the response of the columnist, an HR advisor: Sometimes interviewers are just awkward people. Or they could be giving you […]
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Is it Better to Interview Early or Late in the Process?

  • On October 27, 2019
If the employer gives you the choice, should you interview early or late in the process? The Wall Street Journal notes that interviewers get fatigued by the end but also that they remember better the candidates they saw last. The column concludes if you think interviewers will get tired out by the end, then go early, […]
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