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Consider The Inevitable
Among a few unavoidable circumstances in life is aging. It happens to everyone. If we have been fortunate in our lives, we may have built a strong network of family and friends, maybe accumulated a retirement fund, an investment portfolio, real estate and other representations of accomplishment. If you’re not there yet, there’s something to strive for! However, individual results may vary!
No matter the stage of your career or work-life, you’ve undoubtedly accumulated a lot of things to keep track of, not just on – or about - your job, but in your personal life, as well. Just to name a few: passwords, logins and subscriptions for a long list of things; bank accounts; retirement accounts; health insurance policies for yourself and your family; car and home insurance; home utilities; telephone and internet service providers; streaming services; and ………
The volume of information we manage for ourselves is often huge, and often overwhelming. With the importance of security being stressed on the corporate level, almost every website that requires your sign-in will eventually ask you to log in again. If you don’t recall your password for that site, you hit the “Forgot my password” button and go through the annoying process of confirming your identity, then coming up with a new password that meets the website’s requirements. And sooner or later for that same site, you’ll face another, “Doh!” moment the next time you go .... (read more: https://hanklondon.com/consider-the-inevitable/
Every few weeks we pose a question you might get asked during an interview and a suggestion on how you might formulate your answer.
This week’s question:
How do you think your past positions prepare you for this one?
Here’s another good chance to toot your own horn by describing a few of the major work accomplishments that contributed to the success and growth of your career. Don’t just parrot off the bullet points of your resume. Identify things that most relate to the job you’re applying for and how those experiences have prepared you to fill that role. Use PAR's to describe situations or actions that you’ve taken that are relevant to the new job and the functions you will be expected to perform, even if they aren’t directly parallel. Your experience, training, management, and any leadership skills, along with industry knowledge and foresight from your years of experience have all helped prepare you for this job. Your responsibility in the interview is to successfully convey those qualifications.
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