Posts Tagged ‘interview’

10 Interview Bloopers

You may be good at what you do, but still you have to make a good impression in the interview to score the job. Interviewers look for your performance in the interview for comparison among candidates.Deborah Walker at QuintCareers has listed top 10 interview blunders - try to avoid those are you are one step closer to get the job:

Poor handshake
Talking too much
Talking negatively about current or past employers/managers
Showing up

October 31 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: Communication, interview | 4 comments»

Joel on Phone Screening

Joel Spolsky at Joel on Software visits the essentials of phone screen. He talks about the importance of having a phone screen before a full in-person interview can save you a lot of time, because candidates who good on paper does not mean they are good at what they do. In phone screen for developers, Joel focuses in technology and politics, and then drill into a technical problem:Politics. Behind the… Continue reading

October 25 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: interview, phone | 1 comment»

Secrets from Wealthiest Entrepreneurs

Forbes covers a great series of interview with successful entrepreneurs on some interesting questions. Some of them are fun to read, other are pretty good tips to get for entrepreneurship:

What was your first job?
What was your biggest mistake?
What is more important: the idea or the execution?
What is your advice to young entrepreneurs?
How many hours a day do you read?
What motivates you?
Is there any reason to get an MBA?
What can't

September 22 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: advice, entrepreneurship, interview | 3 comments»

Productive Interview Series: Andy Mitchell

Who are you?

I am Andy Mitchell, best known as the humble author of GTDGmail and Bumble Search. I also go by other such titles as Engineer of Systems and Tinkerer… Continue reading

September 5 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: interview, Productivity | 6 comments»

50 Common Interview Q&A

Bhuvana Sundaramoorthy has collected some (actually 50 of them) frequently asked interview questions, which makes it very handy when you are going to have an interview. Best of all, there are answering tips associate to the questions. Those questions that she mentioned is general structured interview:30. What has disappointed you about a job? Don’t get trivial or negative. Safe areas are few but can include: Not enough of a challenge. You were… Continue reading

August 25 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: interview | no comments»

Productive Interview Series: Patrick Rhone

Productive Interview Series is a quick four questions interview, targets on productive people who have been changing their work/life style with life hacks and self-development tips. The following are the answers from Patrick Rhone, a Mac guru and blogger.Who are you?Patrick Rhone. I am the resident "Mac Guru" at a private 4 year liberal arts college. I also own and operate my own Macintosh Consulting business. I am also… Continue reading

August 21 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: interview, Productivity | 1 comment»

Productive Interview Series: Introduction

I am always curious on what make people successful. I like to study their strong attributes and skills and I will try to learn those and see if they fit me. That's why I've created lifehack.org, just to track what I can learn on others' productivity, life hacks, and self-management.This gives me an idea - if we are tracking this passively - through what they write in their blogs and… Continue reading

August 21 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: interview, Productivity | 6 comments»

Interview tips from an experienced recruiter

Interview is the important to land you a job, and you only have a chance to go for it. Andrzej Zyms has some tips on how to prepare yourself for interview. From initial preparation, finding your way, practicing and how to react during the interview. Andrzej also provided some sample questions which may help you on the preparation phase:- What are your main strengths? - What are your weaknesses? - Tell me… Continue reading

July 19 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: interview, job | 1 comment»

How to Answer the Toughest Interview Questions

Caroline Levchuck at Yahoo! HotJobs shows you ways to answer tough questions in the interview. Some of them may sound impossible to answer, you probably want to know what interviewers really seek in the answer. There are tips for The 'Future' Question, The 'Salary' Question, The 'Why' Question, and The Seemingly Silly Question:If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be? What if you were a car?… Continue reading

July 18 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: interview, job | 5 comments»

Your Final, Essential Hiring Question

I remain convinced that the selection of staff remains the single, most critical process that managers of all stripes are engaged in. When you select the right person for the right job everything else is a cakewalk. Make a wrong choice, and you’re usually in for a long haul of compensating for it until you pull the trigger in correcting it.Systems abound for a myriad of different recruitment strategies so… Continue reading

July 13 2006 | By Rosa | Tagged: hiring, interview, jobs, Management, recruitment, selection | 9 comments»

Life Hack Podcast-Ep 2- Happy Employees and Interview w/David Hayden of JetEye

Life Hack Podcast Ep 2- Happy Employees and Interview with David Hayden, CEO of Jeteye.com=======================Show Notes:Here's episode 2 of th Life Hack podcast, covering some articles from the site, a view into our wiki, and an interview with CEO David Hayden, founder of Jeteye.com.Music was provided by Micronaut, and was found at the Podsafe Music Network.========================Lifehack.org is the creation of Leon Ho… Continue reading

June 21 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: hack, interview, jeteye, Lifehack, Podcast | 1 comment»

The LifeHack.org Podcast – Episode 1: Interview with Patricia Ryan Madson

Chris Brogan interviews Patricia Ryan Madson, author of Improv Wisdom: Don't Prepare, Just Show up. Come to Lifehack.org for more productivity resources.Patricia discusses her book, IMPROV WISDOM, and gives us insights into how Improv isn't just for actors.Running Time: 26 minutes File Size: 12MBShow Theme by Micronaut- Northern Style Kung Fu- Drunken Master Remix from the Podshow Music Network… Continue reading

June 14 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: interview, Podcast | 7 comments»

The Five Essential Phone Screen Questions for Software Engineer

For development manager, this article is probably a good reference when you are doing phone screen to eliminate non-qualifed software engineers. Steve has come up with five essential questions for first phone-screen with an software development engineer candidate:

Coding. The candidate has to write some simple code, with correct syntax, in C, C++, or Java.
OO design. The candidate has to define basic OO concepts, and come up with classes to model

December 21 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: interview, Management | 3 comments»

How to Interview Programmer

Finding good programmer is hard, but even if there are good programmers within the interview candidates, it may still hard to recognize them. There is an article here on tips to explore their experience and tap into their skill to find out what they really worth. Tips like reading their code is actually the most useful among them:... Josh Bloch suggested one technique we all seemed to like: Have the… Continue reading

October 28 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: interview, programmer, software | 5 comments»