Companies today recognize the importance of providing candid feedback to their employees. For example, Kurt Metzger, a vice president in Prudential’s Talent Organization, points out that his organization encourages managers to address issues with their employees directly.
How to answer quirky, seemingly irrelevant, job interview questions
How would you answer the following interview questions?
– Picture this. You’re a pencil in a blender, now what?
– If you were a household item, what would you be?
– If you could have any super-hero power, what would it be?
Note to job-seekers: Tactics seen on ‘The Job’ reality show won’t work
More than 12 million Americans are looking for jobs. With so many candidates applying for each job opening, the odds are stacked against them. Tonight, everything changes.
That is the opening to the television show “The Job,” which recently premiered on CBS.
If you want a job at a company, learn everything you can about the company
In a just-released survey, Software Advice, a research firm that reviews and recommends software, reports that almost half of job seekers they surveyed used the website Glassdoor.com when they were job hunting. Glassdoor is the equivalent of Yelp for job seekers, providing reviews by employees and former employees, insights into a company and information about their salary and benefits.