Interviewing

You Don’t Have to Cough Up Your Private Financial Info. Here’s What to Do Instead We expect to be asked certain standard questions on a job interview (or even before the interview, in an email back-and-forth). We’re ready for questions like “What interested you in our company?” and “Have you

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Be Ready to Respond to These Not-necessarily-accurate Job-interview Statements I was a corporate HR leader for ten million years, so I got used to hearing the standard set of lies and misstatements that hiring managers and their HR co-workers make. They tell job-seekers “We’ll get back to you in two

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You Don’t Have to Grovel to Let a Hiring Manager Know You’re Interested When I talk with job-seekers in live events and in webinars, there are a couple of job-search questions I’m guaranteed to hear. One is “How should I research an employer before an interview?” and another is “How

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A former human resources director recalls some applicants who impressed their way into getting instant job offers After revealing tales of job applicants who disappointed, disconcerted, or generally weirded me out in my last column, I thought it only fair to share stories about prospective employees who surprised me

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Here are my favorite interview tips for job candidates, from new grads to ultra-experienced hires. Given the late-winter thaw showing up in what has been an ice-cold job market, many workers are pondering a topic they haven’t worried much about lately — job interviews. Here are my favorite interview tips

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In my 25 years as a corporate human resources leader I saw my share of not-ready-for-prime-time job candidates. Here are eight of the most memorable “oh dear God” interview stories from my vault—with a cautionary note in each story, to make sure your interview behavior doesn’t veer anywhere near the

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One job candidate came off as intelligent and prepared, but the second one stunned his prospective employer (in a good way). Here’s how it happened By Liz Ryan A midlevel market researcher went to a job interview the other day and told me about it. He was struck by the

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Today, it isn’t the pleasingest job-seeker who gets the nod. It’s the person the employer most believes can solve its problems. My inbox is deluged with job-search queries. That’s understandable: the job market remains tepid, and Kiplinger’s doesn’t see the unemployment rate dropping below 9% this year. Some of my

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