Tell Me About Yourself: Common Job Interview Questions: Live Office Hours: Andrew LaCivita
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- Опубліковано 20 чер 2024
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THIS WEEK’S TOPIC: TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF!
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This week, I’m discussing common job interview questions and answers. We’re kicking it off with the dreaded “Tell me about yourself…” question.
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Andrew LaCivita is an internationally recognized executive recruiter, award-winning author, trainer, and founder and chief executive officer of milewalk and the milewalk Academy. He’s dedicated his career to helping people and companies realize their potential, consulting to more than two hundred organizations and counseling more than eleven thousand individuals. He often serves as a trusted media resource and is the award-winning author of Interview Intervention, Out of Reach but in Sight, and The Hiring Prophecies.
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Hey Everyone! Thanks so much to so many of you who stopped by live! I loved the questions and hope the insight was helpful. The comments section is now open for business! Let me know what you need!
In the 50 minute session, I covered everything you want to know about the "TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF" question plus much more on job interviewing, salary negotiation, relocation issues, leveraging age and experience, phone interviews, wording your Career Profile, being ready for the company's core values, answering why you want to leave your current company, and much more!
You made me laugh with the "ok lazy job interview man" I can't wait to show this video for my employment class. You offer some great advice!
Lindsay Horsman glad you liked it Lindsay and most importantly happy to provide a little chuckle for you!!!!
I gave my sister some of the advice you're kindly sharing with us. First, she went to 3 interviews in less than a month. Second, I insisted she'd ask questions to the companies. Whas reserved about it, but it proved she was the only one asking from all the candidates :) She blew them off and got hired! Thanks!
ursusss wonderful!!!
Grateful for you, Andrew. You’ve got the magical mix of competence and warmth and enthusiasm. Valuable info!
Molly, this is just about the nicest thing anyone has said to me in as long as I can remember! Happy Sunday!
Hi Andrew....Thank You for your Dedication and all out Service to all who are transitioning in their career.
Earl, you're so welcome. Appreciate the nice words and let me know if there's anything I can do to support you!
Thank you for all of the great insight and advice. Your session was full of very useful tips on job searching. I look forward to the next one.
Danielle McCaffery thanks so much Danielle and glad you liked it! Hope to see you next Thursday!
By chance I see this video, and fortunately It's really helpful for me through this time. Thank you for your sharing Andrew. ^^
Gina!!! Thanks for watch and thanks too for your wonderful content! Would you mind sharing what resonated with you the most? The reason I'd love to hear that is because it helps me determine what content and videos to make in the future to support YOU! I'd love to hear back from you! Thanks!
I absolute LOVE asking a question with a question!!!Then you know FORSURE
Yeah baby! Caprice! I can see you’re enjoying my channel and that makes ME very happy!! 😊
@@andylacivita I absolutely love your channel, your energy, and most of all your compassion for helping us all! Your expertise will help me with my compassion and goal in helping children with their mental health!!!
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Hello Andrew! I would just like to say thank you for your resume writing tips. After, I had revised my resume I received more job offers than ever before! This was just the motivation which I needed. I hope that you interviewing tips help me land my desired job!
Destiny Alexander Destiny, you're so welcome and I'm thrilled to hear you're getting those interviews. Definitely check out my 3 keys to ace any job interview fee webinar for additional help beyond the interviewing videos. Good luck!!
It was one of the best videos I ever got online many thanks to u keep going.
Mohammad, thanks. You made my day!!!
Hi Andy,
This is Sunil from india. I have gone through the entire session and understood how we suppose to represent ourselves.
Here, I want to know how early and easiest we should represent ourselves when someone is very short of time.
Great advice.
Glad you liked it!
Hello Andrew! Thank you for posting your videos! I followed your steps on this video and your video for cover letters. I had an interview on yesterday and two hours after the interview, I was offered the position!!! I do have one question. Should I still send a thank you letter?
Geri Brown Geri, congratulations! I love it and thanks for sharing. Yes! Definitely send the thank you. Always send the thank you. Now you have something sweet to put it. Thanks them for the job and tell them how much you’re looking forward to working there!
Thank you!!!!
You're welcome!
Hey Andy I applied for a job in an ATS and didn’t hear anything. Recently I received an email from a corporate recruiter from the company that with another job she felt I was a good fit for based on my skills. She requested two samples a project plan and an example of a data driven decision. I have the phone interview with her on tomorrow. I do have your book, I have questions ready, and I feel prepared thanks to your resources and videos. Thanks can you make a video on this type of scenario or does this exist on your channel? I never applied for the job she emailed me about and per her the job is no longer posted on the website? Is this a plus???
With my employer one of the first things they tell everyone during an interview is, if we are interested it could be as long as 90 days before contacting you. They have found that this one thing will reduce the number of willing applicants by 30%. They had sixteen openings and more than 3300 applicants online alone. They have a third party narrow the field down to a manageable number then they call everyone in for a one on one interview this can take weeks. Now narrowed down even further they start doing background checks and this reduces the number enormously. Next they simply pick the best of the best form those that are left then call them, this is why it takes so long.
Fabulous! Passing this on to others!
Thanks dear! I always appreciate the support from my favorite person of all time!!!
too funny
Hi Pamela! Even my wife watches my stuff!!!
i love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!yay wife! sopport this guy cause he is a life changer.
Thank you so much Pamela! It's so nice to hear my material is helping. And, yes, my wife is extremely supportive. She also is very understanding when I have to work excessive hours to help people in their pursuit of happiness in their careers and lives!!! :)
pls keep posting
I will Jennifer! Lots of new stuff coming in the New Year!
Hey! You are great! How to get your podcast?
Douglas, hey back! And, you're pretty great yourself for the kind words. Welcome to the community! Regarding the podcast, my tips for work and life podcast is available on every imaginable service. If you prefer iTunes, the link to my podcast is in the description of this video. For any of the other popular services (GooglePlay, Stitcher, TuneIn, PlayerFm, Acast, etc.), but google my name and the service you'd like and it'll immediately come up. If you can't find what you're looking for, just comment back and I'll be happy to grab a link for you!
Hi Andrew, I am still confused about how to answer this question after listening to your videos. I applied to medical residency position and there is no job description and all the candidates are pretty the same regarding finishing medical school and applying. How can I separate myself from others and be unique in answering. If I have an experience in specialty I am applying to, can I say something like, I am a medical graduate and I have experience in ...Thank you so much for your videos and your replies.
Hello Andrew, encountered a question in an interview of name a time you were unsuccessful. Looking back on the question, i realize I should of asked what exactly they were looking for clarity.
Thanks for the comment John. Definitely download my Ace Your Job Interview ebook. You can get it on my blog. www.andrewlacivita.com.
Hi Andrew,
I just recently came across your channel and am liking it so far. My company is launching a "Future Leadership Program". The first step of the process is that they asked us to write a short explanation on why we want to be part of the program. I was wondering if you any tips on how to write something like this?
Would really appreciate any tips. Thank you
Sascha! Welcome to the channel and I'm thrilled you're enjoying it! Regarding your question, of course I have some insight! :) The very best answer to to a question regarding why you want to be a (future) leader would be to align you desire to SERVE that particular area you'd be leading. I'm assuming that Future Leader Program is creating leaders to lead a given cause (internally within your org or externally to your customers or community). You need to show you're interested in serving that particular cause. The silver bullet isn't in addressing why you want to be a part of the program. The gold is in your ability to highlight why you want to serve the cause the program is ultimately benefiting. You are welcome to share with me those causes and I'd be happy to respond again with a more detailed answer related to your specific cause. Hope that helps!
Hi Andrew, thank you for your reply.
The background of the future leader program is, that there are many people interested in becoming team leads in the company I work for. Unfortunately opportunities are rare and if one arises there is plenty of applications. The program was designed to give people insight into the role and provide training to prepare to be a team manager. On the whole there 6 or 7 departments that each will have 2 places on the program. For my department that leaves about 60 potential candidates. I was never really good at explaining the reasons for why I wanted to do something. The programme does not promise a role as team lead, but an advantage for future opportunities.
That's good info. I'd focus on the fact (assuming this is true) that you aspire to be a team leader because you want to help mentor and coach the other people within the organization and want to create a greater impact for the organization (by way of people development, process development, and an other impacts being a team leader would have). Focus on the BENEFIT to the people and company and NOT on your desire to climb the ranks. Career elevation will happen as a result of you focusing on the benefits to others and the company and its customers.
One part of this program would be to cover for any team lead when he or she is out of office. I was thinking to point out the fact that I would be able to lighten the workload of the other managers as they wouldn't need to take over another team. Is this something I could write or better not?
Yes. 100%. Anything you can work in like that. Anything that highlights how you want to SUPPORT the organization by helping, relieving, etc. Check out Servant Leader Concepts. Just Google it. Focus your responses that way. Just make sure you mean it!!!!! :)
Hi Andrew, thanks alot for your videos!! you are a blessing! How do I prepare (Resume and for the interview) an open application to company with no specific job description?
Secondly, how do I handle with confidential clients, informations from former projects in my resume and in the application process in general?
Thanks so much!
Hey There! Thanks for watching and thanks for your questions! And, thanks too for the kind words!! When you are targeting a company and you don't have a job descriptions (in particular), use this technique: milewalk.com/mwblog/how-to-boss-hunt-with-a-cover-letter-that-makes-hearts-melt/. That targeting technique--the one without a particular position in mind will work well. As for the resume and the job interview, I would make sure to highlight the areas you think are important based on what the company does. That is, if it's an engineering organization, you'd want to highlight your "engineering" type skills (e.g., organization, analysis, design, etc.). With confidential clients, simply use generic names on your resume. Instead the specific name, you can use large retailer, small software firm, medium-size global pharmaceutical company or something on that order. Hope this helps. BTW, I hope you tune in next Thursday because I'm discussing the RESUMES!
I had an interesting interview a couple of weeks ago that I had not experienced before. It was an automated audio interview. Are you hearing more about these?
Hey John, I am hearing more about these as well as automated video interviews. My clients (the hiring companies we recruit for) do not use them. If they did, I would not represent them because they are incredibly impersonal and don't provide the candidate an opportunity to learn about or engage with the company. In my opinion they are atrocious and likely an indicator of how sterile and impersonal it will be to work with that particular company.
Can it help , informing those questioning you, it's your seventh time coming for their interview?
I wouldn’t mention it Unless they ask you how many visits you’ve had.
Hey Andy, I hope your day is going well. I have a follow-up question regarding salary negotiations.I'm not working at the moment, but I'm doing an unpaid internship and volunteers work. Also, I have recently graduated with a bachelor degree in science with honors. When I applied for jobs related to my field of study, recruiters I want to offer me 3 or 4 dollars more the minimum wage in NY. Moreover, I have 5 years of customer services experience doing volunteers, internships, and working experience. Furthermore, I have 3 years of experience of clerical works. When I was working, I was earning 1.10 dollars more of the minimum wage. It was also a part-job and I was a college student. Every time I had phone interviews, recruiters said: "it is good salary $13 or $14 because you're not getting for your work." How should I answer that? I need help! Thank you in advance.
isis ramirez hey Isis. You want to stress the value you will contribute to the employer. you want to stress to the recruiter that is not about what they consider an acceptable earning level is for you but more about what you can contribute based on your experience and performance in the interviews!
Andrew LaCivita Thank you so much.
isis ramirez you're welcome!
Andrew, I think what you say is really great but I have one piece of constructive criticism for you. I don't think you should refer to the 'dreaded Tell Me About Yourself' question, saying that has created that connection in my mind and I am sure others peoples as well. This has now made me dread this question and feel irrationally nervous when I face it, I am now working on delinking the connection.
Martin Smith Hey Martin, thank you for watching and I appreciate your nice words. I also appreciate your constructive critique!
pls keep posting
I will. Lots coming up in January!