The Interview Gauntlet

The Interview Gauntlet This is not your ordinary career site. I help the corporate worker who toils away in the company cubicle make career transitions. You want to do your job well, following all the rules -- . The career transitions where I can help you center on three critical career areas: How to land a job, succeed in a job, and build employment security. Top 10 Posts on Categories Have you noticed that moving to a different company is harder? Companies, of course, want to ensure that the potential employee is a good one. One of the ways of determining worth is to have the candidate interview with multiple people so as to secure differing points of view about the candidate. This makes sense in that a candidate needs to show effectiveness across multiple dimensions such as analytical capabilities, technical prowess in particular areas, or relationship management. Different people can interview the candidate to determine if the skills are there to meet the different dimensions. But where does skillful interviewing change to a gauntlet? I have a friend looking for a job. Here is the process so far: After getting out of this gauntlet â€" where one definition from dictionary.com is “a form of punishment or torture in which people armed with sticks or other weapons (questionnaires, phone interviews, in-person interviews, team interviews, and panel interviews â€" Scot) arrange themselves in two lines facing each other and beat the person forced to run between them” â€" the company hiring our candidate hero will believe that they will have a dedicated, skilled employee that can perform in the job. Meantime, if I were the candidate, I”d see a complete lack of consideration of the employee’s time by not consolidating the interviews into one day for the phone interviews and another for the in-person interviews, an ill-defined process for hiring which lacks time-based goals, and no speed-of-execution by the management team. I know I’d want to give this management team my undying loyalty. Not! Do you think they interview CEO’s this way? […] positions with everyone on the planet. Not just down the street. Companies know this. It is why the interview process has become a gauntlet. Talent, in many ways, is cheap when you look at your talent pool as everyone working in […] Reply […] Receive articles automatically: subscribe through an RSS Feed or by e-mail. Choose in the “Subscribe” box top right. If you read the news, you’d think every company on the planet was laying people off. Certainly, we’ve seen a lot more people heading out for job interviews â€" and getting shocked at the Interview Gauntlet. […] Reply […] Receive articles automatically: subscribe through an RSS Feed or by e-mail. Choose in the “Subscribe” box top right. If you read the news, you’d think every company on the planet was laying people off. Certainly, we’ve seen a lot more people heading out for job interviews â€" and getting shocked at the Interview Gauntlet. […] Reply […] Receive articles automatically: subscribe through an RSS Feed or by e-mail. Choose in the “Subscribe” box top right. If you read the news, you’d think every company on the planet was laying people off. Certainly, we’ve seen a lot more people heading out for job interviews â€" and getting shocked at the Interview Gauntlet. […] Reply […] Receive articles automatically: subscribe through an RSS Feed or by e-mail. Choose in the “Subscribe” box top right. If you read the news, you’d think every company on the planet was laying people off. Certainly, we’ve seen a lot more people heading out for job interviews â€" and getting shocked at the Interview Gauntlet. […] Reply […] Receive articles automatically: subscribe through an RSS Feed or by e-mail. Choose in the “Subscribe” box top right. If you read the news, you’d think every company on the planet was laying people off. Certainly, we’ve seen a lot more people heading out for job interviews â€" and getting shocked at the Interview Gauntlet. […] Reply […] The Interview Gauntlet […] Reply […] football program out there. Passionate about sports and applying his great skills, he survived the interview gauntlet where the questions asked about how much he knew about sports and â€" only after passing that […] Reply […] box top right.The posts this week have looked at interviews and interviewing. We’ve seen the gauntlet companies are raising in the interview process, my mini-rant about team interviewing, and what […] Reply […] through an RSS Feed or by e-mail. Choose in the “Subscribe” box top right.Earlier, I described the interview gauntlet being thrown out there by some companies in order to get hired. One of the items in the gauntlet is […] Reply Hmmm, could the friend be interviewing for GOOGLE perhaps? Sounds an awful lot like their process … I agree. It’s too much. Analysis Paralysis and Interview overkill. I am a manager for a Fortune 50 and fortunately we don’t have that many rounds of interviews but we still see at least two for entry level / analyst folks and probably about three for managers (not including the phone screens). Reply This is not your ordinary career site. I help the corporate worker who toils away in the company cubicle make career transitions. You want to do your job well, following all the rules â€" . The career transitions where I can help you center on three critical career areas: How to land a job, succeed in a job, and build employment security. policies The content on this website is my opinion and will probably not reflect the views of my various employers. Apple, the Apple logo, iPad, Apple Watch and iPhone are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. I’m a big fan.