8 Insights into HR’s Mind When You Are Being Interviewed

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Inside the mind of a hiring manager is a desirable place to be, if you are a job seeker.  Specifically, job seekers want to know what goes on inside the mind of a recruiter before, during and after an interview. The Chameleon Team has over 80 years of collective search firm recruiting, corporate recruiting, and…

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Playing Offense With Your Interview Strategy

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Playing Offense With Your Interview Strategy The companies that will come out on top when all is said and done with this pandemic are the ones that play offense. The ones that zig when others zag. The ones that push forward instead of pulling back. The companies that stay afloat will continue to be strategic…

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Is Returning to Work at the Same Level Possible?

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Is Returning to Work at the Same Level Possible? Returning to work after staying home with your family can make interviewing challenging. In fact, a Harvard Business Review article from Feb. 2018 titled, “Stay-at-Home Moms Are Half as Likely to Get a Job Interview as Moms Who Got Laid Off” outlines that landing an interview…

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How Most People Interview All Wrong

How Most People Interview All Wrong Most people, when they prepare for the interview, dutifully research the company. These are typically the two areas they cover in depth: Company knowledge: Products, service lines, management, competition,growth trajectories, etc… Self Knowledge: Resume details, CAR stories, work communication styles, and standard, behavioral and situational interview question preparation, etc……

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5 Questions You Hope Interviewers Don’t Ask

5 Questions You Hope Interviewers Don’t Ask Every candidate has the “God, I hope they don’t ask me that question” question. And a recruiter can tell when they have asked that question. They see that a candidate has become uncomfortable. The signs vary. But the signals can look like any one or combination of the…

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Overcoming the Wall of Worry in Your Executive Career

Financial newsletters and media outlets have been talking about the bull market climbing the Wall of Worry. I understand this to be the bull market continuously climbing despite political, geographic and economic worries that plague the news and influence these markets each day. You can google “bull market climbs wall of worry” to find stories…

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