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No matter what you think of a company or hiring manager, bad interviews just happen. It’s unavoidable. In the current recession, the number of interviews required to land a job is abnormally high. This means, that your odds of landing a bad interview are equally high. Most of the time, a bad interview has less to do with you and more to do with the interviewer.
Hiring managers get busy just like everyone else. The fact that they are hiring is a sign that their currently understaffed. When interviewers get busy, …

The job of any good interviewer is two fold. First, it’s the interviewer’s job to sell you on the job and the company. Second and most important, it’s their job to protect the company and existing employees from a “bad” co worker. The easiest way to do this, is to make the job seeker comfortable & excited about the opportunity, then to follow with questions designed to make us all sweat a little. Preparing for these tough questions is the best way to ace your next interview and move one …

If you are preparing for a second interview, congratulations! You are now much closer to a new job. First, you have to close the deal and sell yourself to the second interview team. This is the point when a lot of people choke. To avoid the second interview freeze, I always suggest a good dose of preparation.
Ask questions about the job:
One of the most difficult parts of a second interview is coming up with a new set of questions. The first interview can use up most of your questions. Before …

It can be hard to explain why you lost your last job. In this market, so many of us have been put on the bench with no real explanation. Massive layoffs can leave anyone feeling like their performance just wasn’t good enough. Even worse an oversight, accident, or poor performance is very hard to explain and can put anyone on edge when questioned.
During the interview for your next job, your answer could just kill your chances at the next position. However, a little bit of preparation can turn the table …

Asking questions during an interview is an important task that should be well thought out, before the interview even begins. When you first get the news that you will be interviewing with a company you should start by researching the company.
Researching the respective company, will help you obtain information useful for the interviewing process. Researching information on a company that you are interviewing with will help in more ways than one. It will help give you an edge in the interview, by allowing you to stay focused and engaged …