What one question do you ALWAYS ask candidates in a job interview?
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Self Made Millennial Madeline Mann will show you the tips, tricks, and strategies to help build a similar connection during a video interview as if you were in person.
Job interviews mark the ending period of your search, and after that comes negotiation and accepting an offer. I typically advise that clients keep going with their career search until they have a formal offer. Why count your chickens before they've fully hatched? Having more than one offer can also increase your bargaining power, something I spoke about here.
Right now, with high unemployment and seemingly endless competition for jobs, nailing your interview is critical! Almost every failed interview can be traced back to the first three minutes. Experts will tell you the first ten seconds, but these are the same experts who have never interviewed or haven’t interviewed in the past twenty years. The reality is a little longer, but not much.
Have you ever wondered how recruiters score your phone interview?
In this video, Self Made Millennial Madeline Mann divulges what she looks for when talking to candidates, and shares her best advice on how you can prepare to absolutely crush your phone interview.
These methods have helped Madeline's students pass phone interviews at companies like Google, Apple, Sony, Amazon, and Netflix. Madeline also shares her No. 1 tip for maximizing your salary negotiating power when the conversation turns to money.
A series of five back-to-back video calls was perfect fodder for some reminders on video interviewing and important protocols to follow. This technology is here to stay post ‘Rona as at least one of the recruitment tactics we will use in hiring. SPOILER: I expect the phone interview will also make a grand return.
If you’re preparing for a job interview, there are several popular interview questions that recruiters tend to ask. Self Made Millennial Madeline Mann talks about how to answer the question that will most surely be on their list: “Why are you looking to leave your current job?” and all other versions that will help them understand why you left your previous employer. Watch Madeline’s YouTube video for some great tips on answering this question with confidence!
The resumes are in, the interviews scheduled, and you print up the same set of behavioral interview questions you’ve been asking for the last 5 years. But know, your candidates are prepared, they’ve researched, prepped, Googled responses to every interview question imaginable. You need to put in the same amount of preparation, your goal is to hire the BEST people, so your interview game needs to be next level.
The day comes where your manager or recruiter says, "I need your help with these phone interviews. Are you ready?"
Yes! Take that next step!
Here's what I prepared to make sure I got the information I needed.
Experience Questions
The interaction between candidates and recruiters during a job interview plays a key role in whether or not an applicant is hired. Everything from a candidate's appearance to how well he or she communicates creates either favorable or unfavorable impressions for recruiters tasked with determining the candidate's fit for the organization and the role before moving him or her along in the process.

