What’s An Interview Coach?
What is an Interview Coach and how can one help you in your interview process?
A coach will design a partnership agreement based upon your career goals and tailored to your individual needs.
A Coach Will:
• Listen to you
• Help you hone vision for your future
• Keep an unwavering focus on your goals
• Be an advocate keeping your mental health and well being in mind
• Offer advice, ideas and perspective when appropriate
• Challenge you and hold you accountable
• Make bold requests and challenge you to stretch beyond your limiting beliefs
• Give honest and constructive feedback
• Encourage you
• Rehearse your strengths with you
Need an Interview Coach? I am available to answer questions and walk you through the basics right here at Interview Chatter. Feel free to leave a comment and I will respond.
If you want a more focused approach, feel free to send an email and let’s talk. I would be happy to meet by phone. Together we can assess your needs and determine whether you can use my services.
Here are some great links to help you along the way: Coach’s Cornor
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5 opinions for What’s An Interview Coach?
Mental Health » What’s An Interview Coach?
Jan 17, 2008 at 10:22 am
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Ren Garcia
Jan 18, 2008 at 8:23 am
Is there an Interview Coach for interviewers?
Darlene McDaniel
Jan 18, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Not that I know of, but I am happy to fill in that spot as well. A lot of what I have learned over the years came from sitting on both sides of the table.
Do you know anyone who needs help or who is looking for help?
Thanks for stopping by Ren!
Adam
May 26, 2008 at 8:42 am
Three of my last four jobs ended in being something entirely different from what was discussed in the interview. I was hired as a manager and expected to make great changes in order to turn around the business. Meanwhile, I ended up working side-by-side with the employees under me doing the same entry level work as them. Any suggestions on how to be able to see this during the interview and not wait until I am already in the job?
My guess is that you can’t foretell these happenings and maybe it is my own bad luck. I stayed in the positions after discovering this only because I needed the money and time to find another job. In the end, my resume looks bad because of the job switching. What would I say to the next employer when this has occurred 3 times in a row?
Darlene McDaniel
May 26, 2008 at 8:55 am
Hi Adam, I would like to take a look at your resume. In order to give you good feedback, I need to see what we are talking about. You are welcome to send it to me in an email. darlingmcdaniel@gmail.com. It only takes me a few minutes to assess a resume.
One of my initial thoughts from your comment is that you are probably not very clear about what you really want to do. If you do know, then you will need to re-tool your resume so that it has a specific target. Then you need to pursue companies, jobs that will allow you to do what you have a desire to do. If you don’t know what you really want to do, then that would account for having various jobs that may be unrelated.
As far as how to discern what the job is prior to accepting the job. You can find out. One of my recommendations to my clients, you have a responsibility to interview the organization when you walk in for the interview. It is not a one-sided transaction. You are there for them to assess your skills and abilities, but you are also there to make a determination as to whether it is a good fit for you. You must walk into the interview prepared to ask tough questions. How you frame the questions, how you present the questions, your follow-up questions, research, should help you determine whether it is a good fit for you.
If you need a job more than you want the answers to the questions regarding the company, then you will continue to do what you have been doing. The other thing that will save you from your past experiences, you must be willing to walk away from the wrong job opportunity. I have left money on the table for the sake of finding the right job. Not just taking any job because I needed a job.
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