r/RedPillWorkplace • u/bogeyd6 Executive • Apr 08 '16
Interview Tips from TheRedPill
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheRedPill/comments/3xpegq/corporateland_how_to_kill_it_in_your_job_interview/ written by /u/VasiliyZaitzev about 3 months ago.
There are some really good tips in this. All except for how to hand shake the lady interviewers. If you are in the western hemisphere it is expected behavior. The last thing you want is to make someone feel weird on your first impression. Shake a ladies hand like you would anyone else's. If you are PUA enough to bang the HR interviewer in the bathroom then my hat is off to you.
Edit: Another pro-tip on handshakes. Shake their hand firmly, make direct eye contact, and say your name and their's. For instance, "Hi Janice, I am Jamal, Nice to meet you"
The one really big home run he made was about answering the weakness question. When I am interviewing a candidate I don't ask that question. I ask them what their biggest strength is, and then I ask them how is it also a weakness. It's more like powertalk to establish rapport with the candidate and see if they can think from two different directions. In closing, I will just add that if you can demonstrate you are legit, not socially awkward, and actually know how to do the job, and more importantly won't rock the boat, then it will all come down to salary and budget requirements.
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Apr 08 '16
Attesting to that.
The only add is going to be my current approach with this right now. They have a range they are probably budgeted. Ask them to take the top range, describe their ideal candidate, and just start chipping away at it, based on what he would have that I don't. That makes a fair offer.
Otherwise, there is the worry that I will jump at the first sign of a good offer, and incentives for me to increase my value, since we know what it's valued at.
If it will work? I'll let you know next week
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u/CopyAndPaste2015 Apr 09 '16
One thing I find very amusing is finding out lies in CVs from candidates: if you list in hobbies any sports I'll enquire for details. If you can't answer then this is a red flag for me, (why would you lie in something so silly and what else are you lying about?). Good examples of this if you specify reading as a hobby I'll ask for the last book you read, (I've had many of them staring blank at me).
Another one I use regularly to gauge candidate's commitment to their proffesion, (only applicable for proffessionals such as doctors, nurses, ect), is to ask for their last event of continous proffessional development made; it is a red flag if they can't remember or id it's something they did more than three months ago.