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Job Interview Skills Torrent

If you thought interviewing was only about answering questions, youň€™ve been missing the point. Youň€™ve also been missing an opportunity to gather valuable information. Listening is one of the skills most underutilized by candidates. Most people go into the interview thinking and worrying about how they will answer the questions, and they forget that they are there to find out about the job and the company. They forget to listen, observe and read between the lines.


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Why New Graduates are Just Like Young Puppies?

Last year the Government commissioned research on how employable Graduates were. The answer was: not very.

But why? The reason was simple - most had no exposure to professional work settings. The ň€˜solutionň€™ suggested was to build links between business and the universities ň€“ a pipe dream proposed 20 times before and never going to happen without someone spending big dollars.

Just another ň€śdeliberate use of language not to approach reality but to hide it ň€¦.. Small talk in the airless front room of our livesň€ť (Farrelly, SMH).

So your new ň€˜puppiesň€™ donň€™t know much. At your great expense theyň€™ll now learn how to send faxes and make copies; learn business phone etiquette and message taking; and all the stuff around meetings ň€“ how to take notes, how to participate effectively and how to follow up productively.

Plus fifty other things ň€“ having hired hundreds of ň€˜puppiesň€™, itň€™s amazing what someone who has never worked in an office doesnň€™t know.

Not a problem if they stay with you as they are your future and worth the investment. But most donň€™t. It reminds me of when I became a boat owner, an experience which is like creating a giant plug hole to pour your money into ň€“ itň€™s a similar money hole with Graduates.

How much money? The firms like Mercer who work out the costs of losing professionals say it is well over 100% of their annual salary. More like 200%.

Is it the same cost to lose Graduates? Absolutely, and it could be higher given the mega cost of Graduate recruitment programmes (screening hundreds to find them) and all the training and mentoring you pour into these kids. Then factor in all the months before they become productive: the cost is up to $100,000 EACH.

They leave and you have to hire more grads next year to replace them. Itň€™s a money hole worse than any yacht. And no, itň€™s not because ň€˜young people just donň€™t stay in jobsň€™ ň€“ at http://tinyurl.com/4l55r2 see why this is just an excuse to ignore the real issues, why itň€™s just ň€śspinň€ť, why itň€™s Einsteinň€™s definition of insanity.

For a media article exploring the problem and the solution in greater detail - http://tinyurl.com/5entbe

The solution to hiring the best Graduates, most of whom will stay? Know/Act/Profit First by going to http://tinyurl.com/55kemu and learn what a few innovators have started doing.

Next week weň€™ll hear ň€śSueň€™s story: The ň€˜Perfect 10ň€™ who got 5 great offers when she graduated. So why did she resign after just 20 months and leave a great employer who had a good Graduate program? More importantly, why is her story so common?ň€ť






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