Catherine Palmiere

Today I’ll interview Catherine Palmiere. Catherine is a teacher, author, and popular guest speaker at seminars and on TV. The President of her own staffing firm for 30 years, Adam Personnel in New York City. Clients seeking enhanced personal growth and achievement may wish to consult her sister company Palmiere Career Services for individual career coaching and skills counseling. Because Catherine is a Certified Employment Interview Consultant (CEIC), a Certified Professional Behavioral Analyst (CPBA), a Certified Professional Career Coach (CPCC) and a member of the Professional Association of Resume Writers and Career Coaches.

Catherine Palmier is co-author of the book Unlocking the Door to Your Career: Guidelines to Finding the Perfect Job and Taking Charge of Your Life. You can read her blog here.

I’ve learned that Being Authentic is one of the most important things that you want to BE in your phone interview. When you listen to Catherine, you’ll find out the relationship between your accomplishments, your interests, your skills and the level of your authenticity or genuinity. You’ll also learn the most powerful question ever that you have to ask yourself before the recruiter calls you. You’ll also discover an elegant way to be honest and professional when you hear tough questions like “what are your weaknesses?”. I hope you enjoy yourself as much as I did.

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Jeff Lipschultz

Today I interviewed Jeff Lipschultz about the question “Why Should We Hire You?”

Jeff is a founding partner of A-List Solutions, a premier recruiting firm in Dallas-Fort Worth.  He is a renowned blogger in the area of recruiting and has written a great deal on interviewing and resume writing techniques.  He also has coached many college students, executives, and other recruiting professionals on employment and career branding leveraging Social Media.  Jeff is a featured writer for the web site www.job-hunt.org where he provides advice to job seekers on working with recruiters and optimizing their search efforts. If you need help preparing for an interview, I suggest you visit http://jefflipschultz.wordpress.com and download two FREE eBooks: a 15 minute guide focused on preparation and ownership of the interview, and an All-in-One Guide covering everything from Preparation to Do’s and Don’ts to Follow-up.

Listen carefully to the entire interview (it’s about 45 minutes podcast) because you can’t afford missing a simple but powerful technique he discusses (used by successful politicians) that will help you immensely during your job interview.

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Honest Questions: always?

Let’s face it: most of us need a job and today it is not easy to find one. And that makes us fearful, stressed and worried.

So, when an interviewer (the one that will allow you to survive) asks you: “Why do you want to work for us?” what is the simple and plain truth?

We need a job. And we would like to get to work as soon as possible so that we can continue to pay our mortgage.

But that’s not what the interviewer wants to hear. He does not want to “solve our problems”. He wants us to solve the company’s problems. That’s why an honest answer is not necessarily what is expected from us. You should be honest always but you should listen for the intention behind each question. The intention of the question is not always that of us being 100% honest in our answer.

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Have a Clear Vision of Where you Want to Go (flicrk: muha)

Before talking about the Goal of your phone interview, you must be clear that the interview is a conversation. It’s not a situation where one part is active and the other one (you) is reactive. You must also be active and create the interview that you want for you. You create the conversation as much as the interviewer.

It’s a special kind of conversation because it has goals. Most conversations between friends don’t have a specific goal but to express one’s emotions and express some opinions. But in a phone interview you’d better have a goal…

The interviewer’s goal is clear: screen you out as soon as he detects something that’s not what he’s looking for. It’s a rather negative goal. He does not want to waste your time or his time.

For you, the goal should be: get a face to face interview.

Not to impress the interviewer, or to sound professional or sound nice. That’s not the goal. That may be some means to your goal. The goal is to get an in person interview.  I know it may sound obvious, but sometimes we forget and start the phone interview withouth this goal in mind. If you have this goal clear in your mind your unconscious will help you move forward the conversation in a way that’s benefical to your goal. I repeat: if you have this goal in your mind, you will tap into unknown resources of your mind that will help advance to the next phase of the job interview process.

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The What, the Why and the How of your Answer

In a phone interview all answers have the same 3 part structure:

1) The WHAT you say: that’s the content, the details, the easiest part. You should be concise and organized here.

2) The WHY you say: that’s the intention behind WHAT you say. That’s invisible. You are the only one that knows it. Choose 1 (not two) intentions when delivering it. I suggest you forgetting about any manipulative intention like impressing the other person, or get their approval. Try instead choosing intentions that empower you as a person: touch my inspiration, smell my power, be in contact with the source of my joy. Yes, you’ve read right: when you answer you can use that answer to tap into your potential. If that’s your intention you’ll come across better, in a friendliner way, trust me

3) The HOW you sound, the way your words sound: they can be soft or harsh, confident or doubtful, brillant or apatic…The tone of your voice carries certain emotions through. My trick here is very simple and powerful: S-M-I-L-E while you answer.

Have a smile on your face before you utter your answer, during the delivery and after you’ve uttered the last word.

PS. More advanced and powerful phone interview techniques you’ll find on my Phone Interview Success System.

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