Each job seeker wants to standout from the competition - but some candidates go wrong about everything. For example, according to a new survey by CareerBuilder, sang a respondent their answers to the questions, while another gave a telephone interview to the toilet - and rinsed.
"It's hard to say which candidate would do some of these things," says Rosemary Haefner, Director of Human Resources on CareerBuilder.de. "Maybe he's nervous, I think an employer it would be fun, or maybe just the candidate has to find no boundaries. In any case, it could cost the job candidate, whether funny or not, it's probably not worth worth risk, these actions. The nerve can cause freezing in the spotlight, and that's normal. How do you handle that's what counts. "
Carried out in the new CareerBuilder survey online by Harris Poll, on behalf of CareerBuilder among more than 2,500 recruiters and hiring managers, employers shared the most memorable job interview mistakes candidates have.
Here are 15 of the most unusual things that happened:
A candidate has a group photo in front of the office of the auditor and put it in her purse.
A candidate began shouting that the interview was too long.
The candidate said his main task was psychic / medium and tried to read the palm of the interviewer, despite their attempts to reject the offer.
"Birdhouses painters," even if it for a job data entry staff to interview the question of what the ideal job candidate, they said.
A candidate sang their answers to the questions.
A candidate has put lotion on her legs during the interview.
When asked why he wanted the position, the candidate replied, "My wife wants to find a job."
A candidate began chest interviewer feel to find a heartbeat, so they "connect heart to heart."
A candidate brought a pet bird with them.
A candidate a telephone conversation in the bathroom - and rinsed.
A gap of around confetti candidate during the interview.
An interview for a job in a hotel, the question of whether a candidate would be nice to stay in your hotel.
One candidate said he would not leave his old job, but her boyfriend really wanted them to work for you interviewed for the company to get a discount on products.
A candidate shared a story of finding a corpse.
One candidate said he would be willing to wear pants, because they do not feel well.
Wearing almost impeccable CV, letter of motivation impressive and in many cases, a few connections in getting a job interview. But everything you need to blow with a handshake, is weak or poor posture.
"Body language can make a huge impact on the way they are perceived by others especially at work," says Rosemary Haefner, Director of Human Resources at CareerBuilder. "It may sound silly, but there are psychological reasons behind it, thinking about it, how it is used and expressed in the office should not be forgotten. "
A new poll by Harris Poll, commissioned by CareerBuilder conducted asked 2,500 hiring managers who are to identify the most applicants speech impediment body in the interview. That's what she said:
Recruiters are skilled in the use of data analysis to measure the candidates, but an algorithm does not know whether a company's culture is a good fit.
You can not read body language or eye contact. At day's end, relations still prevail technology.
Epsilon, a multi-channel global marketing, setting posture is a big problem. The company found that a focus on "high touch" leads to a good hiring decisions.
It is an approach which telephone calls and face to face with the candidates includes a priority. They also send gift baskets for students in higher education, where they win the last time.
The company says that the recruitment of young graduates campus was so effective that the recruitment process is to replicate together (around 1,800 experienced staff to do every year). They are more interested in analyzing the data after the holiday, especially in recruitment, based on the quality of new employees during the first two years of work determines the best schools.
There is no doubt that tools such as models and CV projections have their place for talent that would otherwise be discovered skills, especially in the process of rationalization and opening doors. The technology provides a direct interaction between the employer and the job seeker, which gives more power to each side.
But what about the person who looks bad on paper, but has the charisma, passion and energy, the company is to boost morale, inspire the team and make it one of the most successful?
The best bet for job seekers is to cover all the bases to learn to navigate the technology and improve their communication skills:
1. Tailor your resume or job field to be in.
Familiar with the buzzwords in the field by reading or by a company in social networks. These words are collected from big companies like Google and Facebook, using the tests for candidates and CV. There are also fitness tips resume, could help increase your chances.
2. Use keywords in your LinkedIn profile.
Recruiters are likely to use some form of data mining. A sophomore Bentley, who had a short position in the interior during the summer is to be of potential employers, met for their Salesforce newly acquired knowledge and the ability "to overcome the odds."
3. Learn what skills role.
Many companies stand areas hiring decisions on skills such as cereals, severity, impact, teamwork, curiosity, property and Polish. Understand to give your skills and be ready examples of how you have demonstrated in your professional experience. Koru assessments and programs provides online skill person.
4. Create a list of top 20th
Research your dream company and find out how to contact them. Consult college student with career counselors in hiring job fairs on campus. Local chambers of commerce or industry organizations are also a strong resource, and social media is a good way to learn about the culture and the brand.
5. Network.
You can online network with LinkedIn, but nothing will replace face-to-face meeting. With a contact in a company helps your resume to the top of the stack. (The alumni network is a good resource for this.) Make a research meeting, where you can ask questions to learn more about the company.
Make sure your partner know how to find your name and the time you need. Have you prepared your questions, and not make it to an interview, if the original was to ask for information. (Always follow up with a thank you.)
No matter how technically we are savvy, high-touch approach tried and true will never disappear completely. We are people, not robots, and no algorithm has the power to change that.
It's January, so there is a good chance that you are looking for a new job.
According to sites like Monster.com and LinkedIn This is the most popular time of year for job seekers to start searching.
To know what it means to be successful in a job, LinkedIn has all setting and recruiting activities, which examined on their site in 2015 and found that. 25 hottest skills in 14 different countries
"If you match your skills to one or more of these categories of competences (a collection of expert advice), there is a possibility that you are either a new job or attracted interest from recruiters last year," says researcher Sohan LinkedIn Murthy in a recent Share on LinkedIn. "We have recognized that companies are still recruiting and hiring of these skills and, as expected in the last months of 2015 that these skills are still in demand in the first half of the 2016th This means that if you one or more of these skills, likely to continue to get the interest of recruiters in the new year are to have. "
These are the hottest skills of the United States:
We have all been warned at one point: "Never lie in an interview"
But Peter Harris, editor of the online job board Workopolis, said that "not only is not realistic."
"It is true that there will probably tell lies in order to be hired for a new job have," he explains. "By the way, you do not lie about the skills that do not really need. It is about for a job that is not really there can be hired."
You should not somewhere you do not or diplomas you have not really won over the work, are, he adds. "This can be easily confirmed by inspections, and are usually leave at the end."
But some half-truths, exaggerations or white lies on your resume, application or in an interview after he said.
Here are some that are acceptable in certain situations:
1. "Yes, I have worked in these three companies.
"If you worked somewhere for a very short time, or if it was bad - you were sacked or burned Cause bridges on the road - Leave your resume," Harris said. "A resume should be no exhaustive list of everything that you've done. It's a marketing tool for the job you want. So just a list of relevant positive experience."
2. "I loved everyone on the old computer.
Nobody likes everyone, and there are probably some difficult personalities at each workstation.
"However, should any potential employer to say how the staff in his previous work and the way it was a privilege to work with great people," he suggests. "Everything else will take you to sound like a whiner and possibly a personality problem itself."
3. "My interests include reading, traveling, charity ..."
If you are your true passions beer, popcorn and Netflix, you should not talk about in your job interview (unless, of course, secret or Sam Adams for a job with Netflix or pop you apply).
"If you go to the list of interest at all in your resume or to discuss in your interview, make sure they are right on the activity or the culture of the company, to be based," says Harris. "The company's website includes team photos on mountain charity? If so, his interests include mountain biking and charitable fundraising."
4. "My last boss was the greatest."
The most common reason people leave their jobs because of their relationship with their manager. But it's not something that can be entrusted to a future boss. "Suppose your former manager was a great leader and he learned a lot from them," he advises. "Bad mouth of his former boss has the potential new wonder what to tell you to your next theme."
5. "I think to quit my job because it looks great chance to pass up."
The real reason was probably leaving something to do with the boss, colleagues, the work itself, the trip or money. "But that's not what you say," says Harris, "Tell your potential new boss is that this time -. His company -. He came career moves to expect and you will work passionately for them in particular."
6. "My greatest weakness is ..."
You should not to do something - but not necessarily share themost realweakness.
"Everyone's time to answer this question," said Harris. "That's how the game is played. You can honestly say that your greatest weakness is the lack of attention to detail and the grace to accept feedback."
Instead, a weakness that do not affect their ability to work in hand, and to explain how it works, improve it share.
"This shows that you are confident and proactively," he adds.
If you get caught ...
Harris said that these are the kinds of lies, you are very unlikely to be confused. But if you get caught in a lie, excuse me, he suggests.
"Explain that you so passionately about the role that had stretched the truth to prove the chance, I could really get the job done. You can always cook anyway, but it's worth a try," he said.
But there are other reasons to leave their work under one main premise:
Life is too short.
Life is too short, every day to go home feeling satisfied. Life is too short to work for a terrible boss. Life is too short to go home every day to feel taken for granted, feeling taken less seriously, or feel exploited.
Please enter phoned her adult daughter and said: "I hate my job, I was bored, frustrated, and I'm not going anywhere.." Did you tell him to look for another job? If you do not follow the same advice?
These are the reasons to stop, miserable and looking for something better:
1. Your boss drives his boss, not you.
You know the kind: As a leader, you need to focus on the time and their direct reports, but spends his time "after" his boss seems that his only purpose in life isto contribute to the honor - and promotion - your boss..
Life is too short to waste your time in the development of your boss career at the expense of their own.
2. Your ideas are ignored or even ignored.
Everyone has ideas. And everyone loves it when their ideas are taken seriously - and applied. The feeling, contributed in a special way this is incredibly satisfying.
But when his boss or the company shade or even when his ideas laughing, is not only an insult, it's discouraging. And soon stop caring.
Life is too short not to worry.
3. You will be criticized in public.
We all need constructive feedback. We all need a little push. We all need to be told, as we can do, better --and how to make it better.
But we need to be told in private these things.
Life is too short to until the next time you criticize walking - even humiliated - in front of other people.
4. Never say: "Thank you."
Everyone should praise. We all need to know when we do something good (and everyone, even a low power, many things happen).
Life is too short, not for the contributions they make, are detected.
5. You have the feeling that have no purpose.
Everyone likes to feel a part of something big. We all want to feel that they have an impact not only on the results, but also in the lives of others.
Life is too short, every day feelinghas been workingto go home, but has achieved something important step.
6. You feel like a number.
Everyone is replaceable. Everyone, after all, work for wages. But people want to work for more than a paycheck. You want to work with people I respect and admire, and to respect them and want to be admired for it.
If your boss does not occasionally for a quick discussion about family stop to see an informal chat if you need help, or just say a kind word, then just a cog in a larger machine are you.
Life is too short to not a cog in a larger machine.
7. You are not even a little excited to go to work.
Each company has its drawbacks. (I'm willing to bet that even Richard Branson has to do a few things that you do not like.) But all the jobs should also be a few funny moments. Or exciting moments. Or difficult times. Or aspects makes you think, "I hope I can."
Life is too short to waste time just waiting to go out.
8. You see no future.
Each work should something cause: I expect a promotion but if not, the ability to take on additional responsibilities, to learn new things, to face new challenges. Tomorrow should have the potential to be different - in a good way - starting today.
Chef Decent Work to improve the company's future. A good boss is working to improve the future of their employees, and even if - especially if - which could mean that some of these employees will eventually move on to bigger and better things.
Life is too short to live without hope.
9. No share their dreams.
Numerous companies, started by two or more people at a time who worked together and realized they had complementary skills - and they realized that they wanted to make a new future together.
If you are planning a business, which it is for a large company, the first one of the best things you can do, be working:
It is a safe environment where you can meet future colleagues and co-founder. You can select a random dozen companies and find at least some of them were of budding entrepreneurs who met as colleagues and left too much to solve together, founded.
Life is too short to spend in order, their hopes, dreams and passions to work with people who do not share.
10. are convinced that you can do something else.
That's the best reason of all to quit. I know what you're thinking: "You make me well in my current job, I'll never find anything like it" or, "There's just no jobs where I live" O, ".. it took too long in this Company (or of racial or industry) ".
Or: "I do not know what it takes to start my own business."
All these things are true - if you let it be true.
Only believe-- and trust your creativity, perseverance and effort will lead to new, happier and more satisfying places. Thousands of people start their own business every year. The only difference between you and them? They decided to take the risk. They decided to bet on itself.
They decided that life is too short to stay where they take all this to do is to lead a better life.
11. Are you tired of your clogged future.
Working for a salary and no matter how it is done, you can not make the content. Working for someone else, and you can only win what has been decided are "worth it."
Work for yourself and your income is limited only by your creativity, drive, perseverance and talent. Money is not everything - but if you have to work, they do not have paid work when ever possible want? Life is too short to determine your financial future by others.
And find out what actually worth - to make both financially and in their ability to make a difference in the lives of others.
When we were children, teachers told us that the jobs we have still not yet been invented as an adult. That's not completly right. Look at the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook, and you will see many familiar titles work with growth rates of 30 percent or more in the next 10 years, including titles as diverse as Brick Mason, and dental assistants. But what truth is, is that some values paid jobs is expected to rise only existed when we were in school. In fact, some were not available until 10 years - or were so rare that you probably have not heard of them.
These are some of the emerging jobs that pay at this time, according to PayScale data:
Scientists mines and manage large amounts of statistical data and create data models. An overview of business process data People with this work often have advanced degrees in computer science and years of professional experience in a related field.
$ 111,600 average salary for 5-8 years' professional experience
If you have a smartphone or tablet, use the fruits of these employees work. To create the developers of mobile applications and the development of applications on a variety of mobile platforms, and have a foundation in programming languages such as C ++, PHP, MS / SQL, Java and Adobe. Mobile application developers can tech giants such as working from Apple or Google, or a new small or independent, thanks to the versatility of these companies work.
$ 89,700 average salary for 5-8 years' professional experience
When the news of the data rape hit the press, people start to ensure the safety of your personal information to provide. What do you think, is not know how these failures are relatively rare when. The amount of data being protected (How many are there? A lot. It is measured in zettabytes.) To do this, analysts have to thank the Information Security. By analyzing potential security vulnerabilities and policy implementation, these workers to retain personal data - and the bottom line of the employer - safe.
Average salary for 5-8 years' experience: $ 78,000
Digital strategist today was grown plans to write the great American novel ... or a master of science fiction universe of their own. Now, in SEO and SEM and high-read computer, digital strategists working with a team to the data to analyze and develop long-term business goals familiar products.
Design to be a LEED certified building or updating a series of non-green buildings more energy efficient, it requires special training. Green building architects usually require more regular than architects scientific education and companies prefer candidates with advanced degrees in Environmental Sciences rent focus. You must be formed with the use of computer design (CAD) and aided design software.
Average salary for 5-8 years of experience $ 60,600
