These two didn’t get any interview practice for their meeting with the CEO of Christmas Two questions from a guy with no kids There’s no better time to start job interview practice than the holidays. This time of year, kids are hopped up on holiday candy and screaming like banshees. Commercials for this season’s toys generate too much greed. The post Job Interview Practice for an Interview with the CEO of Christmas appeared first on HRNasty ..read more

Are you aware of the tools and formats in a modern job search Interviews are being landed amid COVID with a Modern Resume Format I am riding shotgun with two folks right now on their post-COVID job search. The first thing we did was update their resume format. One is changing careers after being in the service industry for 15 plus years. The post Modern resume format for a Covid job search appeared first on HRNasty ..read more

Career Tracker, the next step in your job search Listen to Career Tracker roar. HRNasty is quiet no more Big news on the HRNasty front. I am proud to announce that I am a co-founder of a new product/software service called Career Tracker.  Career Tracker is a web application that seeks to level the playing for job seekers in several ways: Our professional resume builder helps you build customized resumes tailored to your career stage and even specific job postings in 15 minutes, The post Career Tracker, HRNasty launches a Resume Builder and Job Offer Calculator appeared first on HRNasty ..read more

Don’t mention that you can do the job in an interview! The most common phrase in an interview that candidates share with their interviewer is, “I can do this job”. Believe it or not, this is a phrase you want to avoid in your interviews. This is one of the last phrases you want to share with your interviewer and we will provide a number of reasons why this is the case. The post Why you should never say, “I can do this job” in an interview appeared first on HRNasty ..read more

Age Discrimination in the job interview. You can do something about it. Age Discrimination and the job interview Age discrimination in a job interview is a volatile topic. Candidates can feel helpless when they feel this happens and it isn’t just to folks over 40, 50 or 60+. Stereotyping can be experienced by candidates that feel they were declined because they are too young, The post Age discrimination in the job interview appeared first on HRNasty ..read more

Will your answer to the Desired Salary question make it rain? We know the Desired Salary question is coming “What is your desired salary question?” Ever worried if your number was too high or too low when interviewing for your dream job? Ever wonder if you are disqualifying yourself or leaving money on the table?   The post What is your desired salary? appeared first on HRNasty ..read more

Uhh yeah, wrong answer. How do you recover? Wrong Interview Answer What do you do when you realize that you provided the wrong interview answer? What do you do when you realize we could have answered an interview question more effectively after we have left the interview. We have all done it. The post What to do when we realize we provided the wrong interview answer appeared first on HRNasty ..read more

A beautiful gesture! Job reference follow up You would be surprised how many candidates unintentionally burn bridges with their references after the job was landed. Don’t think it was you? If we are not reaching out with updates to these important contacts, that bridge may be burned. Today’s post is part three in a series of three posts on the topic of handling our references: how to strengthen the bond between us the candidate and our reference. The post Job Reference follow up appeared first on HRNasty ..read more

Direct what is said in your references checks Controlling the reference checks conversation For most of us, the reference checks stage of a job search either scare us shitless or we don’t realize how important this step is. Depending on our personality type, we think of one of two things when it comes to reference checks. The post Control what your job references say about you appeared first on HRNasty ..read more

Is your recruiter able to reach the 2 job references you provided? How many job references should I provide?  Congrats! We landed a job offer and the hiring company is going to check your job references. Today, I want us to think about providing more than the ho-hum, standard 2-3 job references that the hiring company requested.  The post How many job references? appeared first on HRNasty ..read more