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…
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…
Thinking through your upcoming interview by Angela Tjalsma May 20, 2021 Building on last week’s column on typical interview queries, here is another set of scenarios I regularly encounter when working with my clients, writes Deirdre May, Career Coach, Slí Nua Careers. Q: When I am being interviewed by multiple interviewers…
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.…
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.…
