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I am a practicing management consultant, former CEO, and entrepreneur. I have taught business at the post-graduate level, mentored startup founders, and worked across five industries (in both large and small businesses).
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- Bill "The Companies Expert"
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I can't thank you enough for this video. Thank you for understanding and providing great information on how to view this situation from a different lense.
My last job I closed down the business threw the keys in the garbage and never answered or looked back
I once applied for a job in Accra Ghana and the employer as ked me how much I was willing to take, out of shy or fear of them not choosing me I mantion a low amount which was 1,200 Ghana cedis but he said no, he will pay me 2,000 Ghana cedis... I will never forget that 😊😊😊
The only place I've seen special parking is for the surgeons and emergency doctors on call next to a hospital. This one I understand.
The chocolate answer had me dying lmao
How would a company that wanted to hire you find out you were fired in the first place. Former employers can't verify any information other than dates of employment and your position with them.
Respectfully follow up twice over two weeks and some will come forward and apologize I've found. They'll reveal they basically moved forward...but why not save a huge hassle with a brief and extremely professional confirmation of this matter...
Ah yes... being the Project Manager for a 50-something headcount team... HAHAHAHAHA, 'Nam flashbacks (but in a good way)!
LOL .. people answer questions in the context in which they mind-space operates. As an SDET (QA) it is my job to root out and resolve ambiguity. My decade of experience has taught me to identify and eliminate it. This makes me a BETTER QA, not a worse QA. The worse QA, might have a ridiculously high tolerance for it because, through the magic of dunning kruger, they don't even realize it is there. I see this a lot actually. Middle management trying to "fix" something that almost definitionally makes the problem worse.
I had a job that I worked at for a year and was fired. I couldn’t lie on job apps and my resume about it. The first two interviews I had wanted to hear why I was fired, and I told them, and they told me I didn’t get the job. I considered leaving that job off my resume and lying about what I did that year. Eventually I got a job through an old friend and after 4 years moved on to a better job.
Awesome Bill!
I know a gal that always took a part time job at places she wanted to work. She said companies always underestimate the amount of help they need and it always turned into a full time job within 2 months.
breach of contract
I will be richer than that hiring officer.
Business hair hahaha. Great content!! I did it in my last interview, and I've got the job, but that information still puts me in a strategic position nowadays. I'm frequently updating myself about the company and our market position
The Companies Expert, You're amazing! Let's be friends and have fun together!
If you plan to lead people, you will deal with much more ambiguity than an individual contributor. And the degree of ambiguity increases dramatically as you move up the management ladder.
It’s not a question of skill or talent for me. It is age. One interviewer came out and said “at your age, you would be better suited for our sales trainee position”, which I didn’t get either. The last one was on the phone and needed my DL for security clearance purposes, never heard from her again after she got it. Qualified with experience for these jobs, but then don’t get hired.
This question is ambiguous. You should have high tolerance to ambiguity on your input and low tolerance to ambiguity on your output.
Question: What if I was communicating with the HR, but interviewed by other people? I can get their email, but don’t want to look creepy and desperate texting them directly out of nowhere 😂
I managed to get a job in a new technical field, without prior experience and without a bachelors degree. The odds were stacked against me, and your material gave me a boost, for sure. Nice work!
Congratulations, Aquila! You rock!
fortuitous - i watched this video this morning, and I had a job interview late morning and was asked this exact question! Thanks so much
"Maybe."
"Why did you leave your last job?" Me: "I didn't. I showed up to work and the place was boarded up."
your videos are very helpful, thank you
thank you !!!!
Wait, what country are You in? You sound American. Thanks for this program, especially today. I feel like I'm getting whiplash from all the constant re-imaginings of my future. I was teaching English overseas, and because of COVID, stayed for 6 years. Now, I want my old industry back in remodeling homes, and now sales seems like the only thing I can do well and get paid enough to live in my Los Angeles. I was supposed to return to my friend's house, but after they won a horrific battle over a 1950 goat easement, I couldn't go there. I'm going nuts, I'm applying for jobs in LA while I'm in Texas, AND I need a place to live AND another car to drive to client's homes. My car sat at their property unstarted, I don't get what was so hard about driving to the supermarket. I am now terrified to honestly tell the interviewer that I have to do everything ALL at once. They must verify my employment for me to get a home. Isn't relocating to start a job a fairly common thing to do?
Please help. I have a situation. A boss that terminated me for nothing. So now I have a mark on my record. I don't want to lie when I go for an interview and say I don't have a termination. What can I do and say. Also i need an answer on that application. I have been saying wrong termination under review. Plus this is an at will state and the boss can walk in and fire for nothing and just tell you to leave. Thanks.
What if you owned your own company and are commission based and it's wildly more than any salary?
It is so cool you do this. As someone so new to interviewing at all, I have been a broker for 14 years and before that a SAHM. I have no idea what the hell I am doing. THANK YOU SO MUCH!
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So basically, hr/recruiters always assume and never assess.... sounds about right