"Career Advisors" Give TERRIBLE Advice - 1st Edition |
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Find your thing, be good at that thing, mail ceo birthday cards, get the job, dont chew gum. duh.
..... How do you find your thing?
@@jchoneandonly 🤔
@@jchoneandonly you try until you find it i guess
I'm new on this channel, but i saw just a couple videos. And i see how relatebel u actually are.
And if just 1 sub of a random dude, who probebly not going to watch every video u posting helps.
U are a very kind and humble person and always trys to see the issues in your self first. i hope u get good enought i want to start accomplishing thinks aswell, but i still hiding behind a wall.
Your right josh,,, its very sad
Nah, here's some real advice;
1) Be attractive
2) Meet the minimum requirements for the job
3) Have impeccable social skills
How do I achieve #1???
@@daveyu5366 by being born
Its over
Straight up triple fail lmao
Here’s mine for the shrewd and cunning:
1) hit the gym
2) lie on your resume and know your made up story for the job searching process front and back
3) learn all things related to social dynamics
Crappy HR: What is your dream job?
Me: I don't work in my dream.
or "I don't dream about working"
@Blackpilled Saint or getting paid to dream
"HR bullshit work"
Girls always give the vaguest advice and take forever to get to the point.
@Jokerpilled Saint
That's just called investing, lol.
How am I supposed to meet the CEO and make him go to coffee with me? Do I stalk them outside the building and run up to them, that sounds like a good way to never have a chance at getting hired at that company ever.
Ricardo Dicksalot CEOs at corporations don’t even interact with low level associates. Same goes for those in the military. It’s taboo to try to buddy up with a CO or Admiral when you are at a junior level. It would be more detrimental than helpful. Dumbest advice I ever heard.
you gotta know someone that knows him/her
if you see the ceo went to conference recently. send them message on linkedin that you had a great time at that afterparty after the big conference but lost their card and want to meet up and hang out again. i mean if she is just going to tell you to manipulate someone might as well do it right. upper execs always have an afterparty for big conferences (usually hosted by the conference for vip holders or vc pass holders).
Option 1: Be 20 something and female.
Option 2: Be related to the CEO or one of his close friends.
@@KA-rp5uh dependent on the company
Oh C’mon. All you need to do is BELIEVE in the Law of Attraction and attend Tony Robbins seminars.
Michael Cecere lol
Infinite waters diving deeeppp once again👽
I knew a guy who treated Robbins as the messiah. He liked to send people after me whenever I criticized Guru Tony. People _still_ think it's unreasonable for me to be angry about that.
I'm using the law of attraction to get more likes on your comment.
This guy.....😂😂😂😂
PUA, Soul/Chakra aligners, dream job, affirmations and realizing inner happiness, conscious community, etc are all f*cking deceivers.
Sending CEO birthday cards, going out for a coffee... I'm surprised she didn't suggest sleeping with the CEO.
i mean, if it means i'm big spoon
Now you know her secret
Me too
It would make a lot of sense if she did, thats why she thinks she can label trash advice as advice.
No that is job for people in hollywood and a mobling industry to get a job or even being a musician they sleep with their boses to get a job
I used this lady's advice during a few interviews that I really really wanted...and i didnt get any of the jobs. I used Josh's advice of coming in and acting like you already work there and I got the job I wanted.
@@manco828 his testimony disagrees
It seems risky but it's pretty true. Employers know everyone puts their best facade on for the interview, but you see the real them when they start working. Best just to save them that step. The hard part is getting through the HR people that haven't figured out they're hiring for departments besides their own.
luckily you didnt have someone like her as your interviewer. one wrong move and the interview reverts to a 20 minute work break for her. unless you had someone like that? rip
BRB cleansing my stagnated energy
What's that?
Gotta blow out that carburetor if you know what I mean
Could you give us all a follow up? Did you get the six figure job after your energy flowed?
@@southerncoyote I blew out that carbureter alot but nothing changed much
What was her name?
What most career advisor advice amounts to: "Here is my personal bias which is unsupported by any actual data or conclusions in repeated studies, but I assure you, this is cannon"
"What is data but a pile of anecdotes?"
@@ccricers There is definitely some philosophical bases to say that data can fundamentally be wrong or purposely falsified. Machine learning models or statistical studies generally have the pre-existing assumption that the data are correct, but it doesn't hurt to first try and falsify that assumption before you continue on your study/modeling.
@@TalentOverDrive Linkedin is where normies go to pray to their gods the shareholders
College career centers are particularly notorious for this.
To be fair, anecdotes is as good as it gets, when whatever they were taught in their marketing or HR courses in college is worthless
"We don't want to know bla bla bla."
I'd be so upset if I had an interviewer with that attitude. She sounds awful at her job.
This chick sounds like she was part of a pyramid scheme and is now selling advice 🤦
Best comment
Too accurate
Pretty sure she is just building an audience and then, she will start selling miracle courses.
:D
I can't stomach another minute of her voice.
Career advise.
Tip1: find your spirit animal.
Tip2: don't appear relaxed in any way you will deeply offend the interviewer.
Tip3: talk as little as humanly possible, otherwise the interviewer will be forced to do their job by paying attention.
This is exactly what I do during interviews. Asides from tip 1. So far results are great. The offer wasn't.
@@daveyu5366 So you mean you have a high probability of getting an offer, but it is usually a low offer?
As hiring manager in IT, I couldn't hold my laughs. I checked this person on LinkedIn. She doesn't have any relevant field experience.
That's usually the case with HR. They have zero technical skills yet insist on interviewing people for a technical role. Waste of bloody time they are.
just flirt / joke a bit with them while of course answering the relevant questions well, ez job
Thats pretty much HR .
HR is a corporate job for kindergarten teachers and hair stylists
Thats how the advise send a card to your boss came from
I just realized something. Every time I went into an interview when I was sick with a cold or flu or something and told my interviewers to excuse my sickness, I always got the job. Always. Whenever I went in and was healthy and smiling, I was always passed up. I'm going to test this theory in my next interview but I really think companies love that you're willing to push aside your own health for the good of the company. It gets them off or something.
Probably not a good idea with the coronavirus going around these days...
@@sudosara Damn...you're right.
I once landed a corporate contract after interviewing with a half swollen face from a root canal infection.
The interviewer/ my then boss was wondering if I wanted to go home and proceed with the interview another day. I mean...I came all this way already looking like this, so you might as well continue. I got the job. I don't even remember saying much, I probably appeared subordinate enough for her.
It’s true omg!
You should go into the next one like "I just got CoronaVirus, but I'm so excited about this opportunity, I came anyways" right after you've shaken their hands.
Now I understand why I only get jobs when someone NOT from HR interviews me. These people sound like they hate interviewing, and doesn't really care about the best fit for the role, but someone they want someone that it's like their mirror.
Nothing that can't be solved with some psychopathic mind games
Same here my friend. I always go around HR dept to contact directly to the senior managers to get a real and productive interview with someone who knows the relevant stuff.
You and Louis Rossman are my absolute favourite youtubers
Fr louis has a similar personality
Definitely need a collaboration video right there!
Best advice I ever got was from my therapist, when talking about job interviews: "They're not only interviewing you, you are interviewing them too." If you are just listening to this lady's advice it's like you are just passive, and it is not a mutual give and take scenario. Also, she sounded really condescending imo.
I've turned down a lot of jobs due to red flags and bad answers to my questions.
Im not going to pretend to be something I'm not just to land BS anymore.
During the beginning of job search I talked to at least 20 career advisors. Every single one of them gave me contradicting advice.
"HR specialists" are just looking for the fastest route to go back to playing on their phones. Thus, they'll cull you for dumb stuff despite having skills.
love the use of the word cull.
This is very important. In fact, being competent is an issue because it creates a potential judgement call for HR to make in the future or a potential conflict they might have with your manager.
That lady turned her personal pet peeves into an "advice" video.
I don't understand, I didn't chew gum at my last 2 interviews and I haven't heard from either of them.
I guess I should've worn pants.
Nah, can't be. I think you forgot to cleanse your stagnated energy.
If you didn't wear pants, then clearly they were expecting sexual favors. Did you put out? If not, you probably confused and angered them.
Sending your CEO a Birthday card is beyond brown nosing as that encroaches into the creepy stalker realm.
NO it is stalker - they're not even your boss yet!
This is how every HR person is. They have no clue about anything and always recommend for the job the psychopath that is able to trick them.
The best interviews are with the engineers themselves. They know what they need and it's very hard to trick them.
What can I say, probably an engineer understands more about human than a psychology graduate does, which I assume a person that works in HR is.
@ThisIsReal
Actually, for HR professional, you need to have a degree in Human Resource, business administration, economics, or psychology (work psychology or organisational psychology). All these degrees can be in undergraduate or graduate levels depending on which university or college you went to and what company are you applying for.
A lot of HR professional aren't like that, but some of them are like what you meant.
I know this is a reply way latter than your original. Still just wanted to share the information i have. Best of luck
Depends on the engineers. They might be old school and look at things like machine learning with fear, and don't want to hire someone who doesn't have a lot of demonstrated experience with it. But depending on the application, machine learning can be easy to do now with tools like PyTorch, and someone less experienced might still be up for the task.
She's showing exactly why HR is an awful dept, someone chewing gum destroyed the whole intvw, that's prejudice
It can, but not always. If you have the vibe of a douche while chewing gum, like you're one of those prank influencers, then yeah.
One of your resume videos helped me land an internship by suggesting to state I am open to other opportunities at the company in the cover letter. You're advice is way better than this feel good positivity crap!
What video was that
Lets be real, most of these bad advice videos are people who work a “Feel Good Inc.”
one advice that worked for me: go to an expensive gym, make friends with the rich career people, make yourself lovable without seeming pathetic..then in the middle of the crossfit session, just casually ask for a job
The best career advice I ever got wasn’t even a person like lady in the video or any career trainer or school it was some random dude with a good job I was playing hold em in a casino one day. we were chit chatting and I asked him how you did such a good job I tried so hard to find one. I had an decent job before I was let go and so many job offers are from black companies who just want slaves.
He told me this “Birds of a feather flock together”
I was confused I didn’t understood what he mean he sighed and said look who knows you I told him yeah my friends and family and he said that do they have connections or are they working the same crappy jobs you can only find. You need to find the places where the people with the connections you want are or you will never get anywhere “You think HR will help you it’s not in their best interest to find the right person for the job” you make friends and connections with the right managers they will open doors for you.
And I find this true just going where the rich people are and have that fake it till you make strategy make friends with the right people has done more for me in my career than any advice I ever had gotten from career counselors and videos like this.
@@zeroxwarrior "It's not what you know, but who you know"
An older man gave me that advice, and it is the truth of life.
Two rich guys I work with go to CrossFit, my shower broke (I'm not rich) so I'm looking for a gym, and I might just go to theirs 🤭
Who the hell would want to work for this woman? I would probably just walk out if she is the interviewer.
These "career advisors" are as helpful as the people who say "just stop being sad and be happy!" to those suffering from depression.
Exactly!
Now imagine this chick is working in your HR department and because of her you lose competent employees costing you tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands each year.
Here is my advice:
1. Don't concern yourself too much with trying too find a job you love, istead try making the best of the options available to you.
2. Even if you do not have a choice but take the job, in the interview you should make an effort to figure out how much you will like or hate it.
3. After getting a job give it a serious try, even if its not perfect.
4. Do not be afraid to switch jobs if you come across something better, or just leave the job if you really hate it.
And how are you supposed to explain jobhopping on your CV?
Lady: this is garunteed to get you a job tomorrow
Lady: these steps won't get you a job tomorrow
I am a degreed accountant and did so good at data entry (downloading and inputting checks) when we were shorthanded that it is now "my responsibility" to make sure it gets done. No matter that people without degrees or experience do more accounting work than I do while I'm stuck being an admin.
The "be really good at what you do now" advice sucks.
The best change I made for myself in terms of interviews was to approach it like a normal conversation and stop following advice about how to impress people. Now it's much less anxiety-inducing going into one, and the interviewer gets to have a better conversation.
I often get the feeling that these HR women (like the one in the video) are so close to making hiring decisions based on the interviewees zodiac.
The whole point of them being their is to ask stupid questions like:" So, if you had a coworker who didn't want to cooperate, what would you do?" or other shit like "are you an InTrOvErT or an ExTrOvErT?"
The answer is "Does it matter if I can do the job?".
Well, because that is exactly how they do those decisions, but it is not purely their fault.
Basically, they have no objective instruments to select, all of the tools they have are a joke.
Yet, they are held accountable for the "wrong" hiring.
So, what does a person do when they are held accountable for something that they can't control?
Use your gut feeling, experience and bias + make decisions based on evidences(certificates, etc.).
LMAO @ the "make the job come to you" lady.
It's like a meme I saw that said "Boomer advice is like: just email the CEO and ask if they're hiring"
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I never understood the part where they all advise to be awesome at your job, like you can put in 10% or 110% at the job you're doing the paycheck will end up the same and when you're old they will find a replacement. So what's with this wave of acting like you're on an NBA team and you are trying to win a championship as opposed to just sitting there and doing the minimum required to get the paycheck
Giving 10% vs 110% really makes a difference. Companies crave to have people on the 110% and typically they will pay more for it.
@@jctergal No, it can make a difference. I have workmates who give a lot and get recognition for it, others are being thrown out after years of loyal service and extra hours.
@@ivanlagrossemoule Success has an important drawback. You have to pay upfront. This means that you have to make the extra effort upfront and then you MAY get the results. Either as an employee, a freelancer, an executive or an entrepreneur. As a professional (employee or not) you are judged on your current performance not what you did 3 years ago. What you did 3 years ago may have defined your current position and salary, but cannot keep you at the work. It plays a small role, but the current performance and situation plays a much more important one. Finally, if you work for an organization, having a good performance is not enough. The organization should have a good performance as well.
@@ivanlagrossemoule For me, being a freelancer or an entrepreneur you are protected against corporate "injustice", but at the same time, most of the times it is much more difficult and risky to establish yourself. If you are an employee that's how the game is played. Typically, if you are much better than the rest your being promoted and compensated more. Of course there is a culture fit element as well. If the organization does not offer meritocracy, most probably you have to find another one that does.
@@jctergal wrong so wrong you say.
You are judged by past, by your grades by your degree, no one is going to hire you and say "lets see how you perform now" and keep you lol
Love your reactions 😄 but then honestly, I've been kinda watching the first lady's channel, and she's got like 600K subscribers... people are watching her stuff and find it good. Is that the reason many US people can't get a job? :) Listening to all the wrong advice? But then AGAIN, I've heard that crazy HR questions at the screening interviews are NORM in the States.
Here, in both Ukraine and Russia, nobody cares about your favorite colors or what spiritual animal you are (what the heck is that?..). I run a remote software development company, and we have three stages of interviews for our candidates: test task (tech), tech interview with our CTO and me. My CTO tests the candidate's ability to answer LOGIC and PROGRAMMING questions online/real time, I test the candidate's overall sanity, English level and all the administrative questions (like, his availability, his current situation - whether or not it will affect the work results - etc. And the final stage is the interview with the customer (mostly, our customers are US companies).
I am always present at those interviews and THIS is where the questions like "what was your most stressful situation and how you solved it" are being asked. That's crazy. "Tell me an example of miscommunication and how you solved it". I mean, okay, that's not the worst questions, but I do understand that for the onsite workers, those questions get crazier.
...Another reason I LOVE working remotely. Or I'm just getting old and lazy.
@Chaos Wizard Didnt you listen? You first need to send the CTO birthday cards
It has to a lot with the US culture too. Small talk is big there, to break the ice and a lot of it never made sense to me. I haven't been to Europe but I have heard that you all prefer the direct approach and coming straight to the point :)
Devops job requirements: build my entire company, it better be secure, reliable, and easy to automate tasks!
You also need 15 years experience with a Top Secret clearance!
Lol ok bro, let me edit my resume
Lmao
In order to trust these "experts" I need to see their results. What career moves did they make and how much did they increase their salary and position over time? No results? = Bullshit advice.
If one puts that much effort in doing that "one or two" things, they might as well start a business and sell that service to companies.
Exactly!
Im a tech recruiter and while I think her advice could be good for a select group, it is very specific advice that probably only applies to one specific person on her mind.
Best advice I can give: recognize that interviewers are people too. Some people are good at it, some are not. Some people interview well and some dont, from both sides. If you can think about this, you can work with the interviewer better to solve the problem together of are you a fit for the role. Not just a q and a session thats honestly usually arbitrarily picked from a google search.
Reading these advices makes me feel like a DBZ character who's about to enter his second form through energy.
Apparently getting a job is like being a ninja in the Naruto Universe.
You've got to f o c u s y o u r c h a k r a
@@aboxinspace Sakura's never getting a job in that universe.
Actually she might but, based on her looks alone.
I worked really hard at my crappy job but they got really mad at me when I wanted to leave. They refused to give me a reference letter. Luckily for me my next job didn't ask for a reference letter.
Good points Josh. No future employer will know how good you are at your current job. I want to leave where I am cos I'm underpaid despite 2 years of good performance and solving plenty of longstanding issues that were there for years before I join, but I'm rejected for good roles out there after I shared my current pay, cos it's way too low for the new job and it made them think I'm probably bad at my job that's why I am paid so badly... 😕
My job takes advantage of their better employees constantly. They won't say anything to the people who don't work, or do as little as they can get away with. The fast people end up expected to do our jobs AND their jobs on a regular basis, we're the ones who get micromanaged and griped at by management, and when we finally put our foot down and refuse to do any job but our own, we get treated like we're lazy. It's infuriating and burns out a lot of good employees.
Edit: I'm guessing a lot of this advice has worked for her because it's obvious she's easily manipulatable and bosses love that shit.
I've seen all those things happen at jobs i've worked and it's infuriating.
Great video, cheers bro
11:22 Got me a job last week with double of my current salary (because of the questions I asked at the end of the interview and the skills I showed through these questions)
Thank you Joshua :)
Hi there, I'm preparing for the interview. Can you share what sort of question you asked the interviewer?
"No no no... you are wrong, and you have an attitude that you need to adjust" hahaha
thank you for giving us the correct answers. Keep the good work.
I completely agree with you on this one. You really helped me. I took down everything on my linked in account and facebook account, and its helped! thank you! I tippled my interviews.
The rambling part was well played 😂
Appreciate the posting
What are ways to get your application seen? What is a good place to actually find a job?
I've sent in over 200 to innumerable companies through the Google job search, and haven't gotten but 1 response back. So clearly I am not doing everything I need to. But 25 years of schooling didn't inform me about how to do it at all.
The issue could be in your CV or cover letter. LinkedIn networking is a powerful tool, but I would start with an ATS-friendly CV + cover letter that's short, relevant and effective
Freelancing rocks XD
I absolutely love the sarcasm and sarcastic humor. It's gold. Keep it up
Career advisors are better off being honest about who HRs will not hire, and how to prepare for some work arounds, than all the stuff about making your dream career come true. Like when you search online about age discrimination there isn’t a lot of useful content because no HR wants to say anything about it.
Speaking of age discrimination why do they only apply to the elderly. Young people who don't have experience also suffer from age discrimination (otherwise they would have jobs). Why should starting a career be a nightmare
JuSt Be GoOd 4Head
just find your focus and be good at that thing
@@JoshuaFluke1 Amen brother, I'll be sure to mention that I found my focus during my next interview 😂
Spot on analysis!
TL;DR "Their advice is fluff. Ask me for career advice and I'll sell you my course."
Except for he isn't selling anything
Don't forget: Tilt your head 120 degree when you are having conversations at networking events 😂😂😂😂😁🙆. You covered that in one of your LI corporate cringe. Since then, I've randomly been making that expression in front of the mirrors after shower. Purely out of the blue. It's beyond silly and always make me burst into laughter. The vanity of the corporate world and its status and power.
M Man please give us a link or the title for the video. We need it
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I guess my advice in software development, is find a few recruiting companies in the region you want to work in, contact them, and have them look for jobs for you, set you up with interviews/job prospects. I pretty much have contacts at 5 companies in my region, and if I need a new job, I just contact them, and they line up interviews for me, and negotiate salary for me(only useful if at will/permanent, if contract you will have to negotiate against the recruiting company). Typically I get several interviews a week and have 1 or 2 offers come my way by month's end. Note: When they ask if they can send your resume to company A, make sure to only say yes if they are the first one's to ask if you have several competing recruiters. I have not personally applied for a job in 5 years, but always find stuff. Advice 2, accept all these recruiters that want to be contacts on Linked In, ignore the constant emails for jobs when you are not interested, when you are interested, reply to those positions they send your way or contact them directly through LinkedIn.
Thank you for writting this
Why allow an unnecessary intermediary to take a cut of your pay to find work for you regionally?
@@jameslivermore4481 Well for at will/permanent, they don't. They charge the employer a percentage of your first year salary on top of what you would get, and typically get me more money than I would have been able to get myself(unless you want to go the independent contractor/freelancer route), as for contract they do you are correct, however recruiting firms usually have access to jobs that are not available on the broader market, since they aren't posted, so you can have advantages here, as well you tend to have a friendly face introduce your resume to the employer, and get way more interviews that way, once I get to the interview I usually shine and get the job, as well if at will/permanent it is in their best interest to get you top dollar and know the market value better than you sometimes. Thing is this is career advice, and tons of people have a hard time finding well paying jobs, and getting top dollar, so this beats blindly applying on indeed for stuff and negotiating pay yourself, as well I get more interviews having 5 people looking for work for me, instead of just myself. If ontop of being a great developer you are great at getting clients and making and keeping business relationships, and can land these positions yourself without a middlemen to do that leg work for you, then great you will definitely get even more money, but I am not the best at that personally, and I get paid quite well.
@@Phantom2502 That is a fantastic explanation! Yes, recruiters cut through all of the HR B.S. and get you in front of the hiring managers. Good recruiters are invaluable.
I had many interview requests by those IT outsourcing companies
Thank you josh for being real and saying things other people are afraid to say!
Love the real talk😂
You should do a video on tech career coaches. I had my fill of them this year!
this channel is amazing
"Don't ramble on and on". Halfway through a rambling interview tips video! 😂
was wondering if you were going to cover this topic - been waiting for career coaches to get roasted (being one myself). Solid video - love what you're doing. I'm sure I'm cringe at times and love getting a blunt gut check
At 11-12min of this video you mentioned something huge that deserves its own video. You said something about driving the interview, asking questions at the end. “What are the team working on right now” etc this deserves it's own video!!!!!
I needed this to clean my mind
I chewed gum at a interview , I asked polite if it's ok and the hr just asked for a gum too and said no problem ...
Rocking it with the dark theme, Joshua.
Thank you for Joshua for posting this video. Its important that any career coach/ consultant being honest and share the experience so that they can give practical advice/ guidance for the people who watch their videos or get their service. But he or she should never share their personal attitudes or believes as advise. Career coaching is my side hustle, so , this video and below comments are proves that how in - depth I want to give information, so that people really understand and relate for what I'm saying. 😀👍👊
Ok what's your advice on networking. I'm not interested in making friends but money unfortunately it's not skill that lands jobs but simply being friends with the right people
Looking forward to your advise so I can get a better job, with less stress, more time off, and more money.
do all kind of videos bro! you are cool
Looking good today, God bless☺☺
Can you go over how to make a good cover letter template that you can use for mass applications without making it feel like a copy/paste cover letter?
Very nicely done :)
Her advice on "be awesome at your job". I'd say "do tasks at work that reflect well on your resume. Think about your work tasks as bullet points. If it looks good on the resume and you think it'll reflect well (gotta have a good enough boss he won't stab you in the back), but it can help.
I swear career advisors give inspirational quotes that everyone else gives on Facebook.
YES please help us out with career advice; resume, interview and how you did it.
I feel like you and I have a mind meld Joshua. Speaking everything I think.
I have seen that situation with a couple people that quit where I work. The hiring managers and the boss was upset that they left, or actually when they left but they badmouth the s*** out of them.
It is one thing for them to badmouth them within the company and another to call the new employer to tattle on the person they just hired. As a hiring manager, I’ve never gotten a call from someone’s ex-supervisor about anything. Perhaps it happens, but I doubt that it is common.
Questions for videos:
How to negotiate pay? (seems its more take it or leave it company mentality now)
What are the best ways to apply for jobs? (indeed, company website, etc)
What to do with the, attach resume now fill out everything from the resume to the company employment page.
Best words/ things to put on your resume that makes hr cream over.
Advice for low skill (like myself) workers on job searching?
I saw a career advice comic that boiled down to "demonstrate value and you'll be rewarded." The mouthpiece was the literal embodiment of Greed as good (because you have to be a good person to get what you want), while the dissenting opinion was depicted as a histrionic straw(wo)man who wasn't permitted to have a real argument.
Lol!!! This was great!
I had applied to Bloomberg for the starting position. Did online application, phone interview, online task, assessment day and then managerial interview, and after a week of wait I was rejected because "You did not answer (why Bloomberg?)" but they didn't even ask that question. Honestly, that was just a bs reason (I spent two months on the application process, and you still need to know "Why Blomberg?") they probably just had someone who fits better. But moral of the story, always say more than they ask!
I can see this lady being the one bothering you for not doing things exactly how you were told to, like drawing a circle instead of a star, then will justify her closed mindedness by blaming it on "them"... the bosses, the other team members. She's a Karen with a suit or whatever the *** she's wearing.
To be honest, the gum thing sounds reasonable. It shows a bit of unprofessionalism to chew gum during the interview and its not a big deal to just not do it for the 30 minutes of an interview!
Who chews gum...she prob made it up for content
Hi Joshua, I think many people, myself included, would like to see your take on the best interview questions.
I agree with the no chewing gum part.
It's a respect thing.
Hahahhahahahahaha. I love this advice. I'll deadpan present it to my team
im just here trying not to get covid19
applying online will actually get employers coming to you. its called emailing and calling bc they liked your resume. lol
The first half was garbage, but she was right on the interview questions. How many people have YOU interviewed? I often get asked to interview for software positions in my company and people rambling on and on and on is actually a very common problem. Let me be clear, this is not due to lack of context, sure provide longer answers where necessary. The problem is people that ramble on endless irrelevant tangents. Think of a date, when you ask a question and the other person talks for 5 to 10 minutes straight without missing a beat. A lot of interviewees do THAT on an interview. At the end we waste time so I learn less about them and I am forced to be more aggressive constantly redirecting the conversation (I prefer to be mellow). Moreover my first impression is that this person is chatty and distracting, which is not a disqualifying characteristic, but not a positive one.
"Coming to you through the internet, career advise from a woman who once randomly get selected to be an interviewer for an undisclosed job with her biggest achievement being 'ask by numbers' interviews."
Imagine her annoying voice going like *"Yeah, no, yeah... You can't give any details about that cos that's Q54 and we're only at Q16 now!"*
I hate the whole notion that you have to be good at just one thing. That to me is depressing. What's the point of life if you're only dedicated to one thing. I want to be good at multiple things
Great interview question: what happened to the last guy who had this job?
It's simple. You have to provide the company with the perception that you are valuable to them. As in, if you were to leave, they have to be convinced that it would be detrimental to the finances of the company. Being 'awesome' at what you do doesn't mean squat if you can't get the company to believe that you are of value to them and the alternative means less money for them or greater problems for them.
I agree with the second lady's advice. Impressions are everything. If you go in chewing gum, the impression is that you don't really care if you get the job or not. Not directly answering specific questions is kind of shady too. If they ask you about SQL Server and you start rambling on about MVC or Angular, it makes you look stupid.
This lady is telling us everything we can do to NOT get hired. It is like telling workers to be honest with their employer all the time for everything.
The thing is that career advice is usually based on the personal experience of the person giving this advice, therefore it is limited: there is a world of different recruiters and companies out there. I don't personally take this kind of advice for that reason . I don't believe one person's opinion on my CV determines how others are going to see it. And it's not even a matter about that person's intentions: as a human being your vision is limited. What is useful for me, and my specific career, I think it is best know by me :). I try to keep being a good developer, improving my skills as a software designer, my leadership skills and so on. I also try to be effective at networking, and building a good professional reputation,but I think it's not necessary to keep asking someone if I am good at that.
do the starfish during the interview!