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…

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 -…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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: 12MB Show Theme by Micronaut- Northern Style Kung Fu- Drunken Master Remix

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…

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…

Have you tried everything and you still cannot get an interview. The site, How to Write a Resume has some tricks for getting an interview: Use a different color paper for your resume Use a different size paper for your resume Inside contact Certified Letter Send your resume with a gift Deliver the resume in person The post-it note trick Some of…