How to deal with a rapid-fire job interview by Angela Tjalsma December 9, 2021 This week, we go over and back by email with a reader who submitted a query – you may find the exchange useful if you have a job interview in the offing. Hopefully you won’t run into a similar scenario.…
How to show you’ve learned from the bad day in your career by Angela Tjalsma August 26, 2021 Q: In the interview, they asked me to outline a scenario where I had a problem in my workplace. I tried to fudge it but they were very keen to get a hard-and-fast example. I told them about an error…
Facing the ‘bad cop’ in a job interview by Angela Tjalsma September 16, 2022 Q: At an interview I attended last week, I felt the panel had designated one interviewer as a ‘good cop’, while another played the role of ‘bad cop’. Maybe I'm wrong, but that's how it looked and felt to me.…
Thinking on your feet can be crucial in a job interview by Angela Tjalsma March 17, 2022 Q: In a recent job interview the panel asked a scenario question: “what would you do if somebody turned up for work with a smell of drink?” I was going for a job as manager of a retail store and…
What to do when you hit ‘the black ice’ in a job interview by Angela Tjalsma March 10, 2022 Q: I froze in the job interview. There is no other word for it. I was going great guns until they threw a question at me that caught me off guard. I stumbled through that and knew from their reaction…
