#57 - Bonus Weekend Edition
#57 - Evaluating Opportunities

#57 - Bonus Weekend Edition

Welcome to the Bonus Weekend Edition!

Every weekend, we offer a Bonus Edition of the current week's newsletter, pulling an additional subscriber question from the Premium archives and adding it to the current issue of the newsletter!

This week's bonus question offers insights on how to answer when a company asks how your job search is going, and whether you can ask a company how the search is going on their end.

The bonus editions are only available on the weekends and will be archived on Mondays, so take advantage of the additional information and check it out now :) https://www.jobseekingishard.com

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The new Jobseeking is Hard is out now!

Check out issue #57 here! https://www.jobseekingishard.com/p/57-evaluating-opportunities

This week I'm talking about how to figure out what opportunities to pursue and how to properly vet opportunities, including:

  • If the person you reported to left the organization citing a toxic environment, should you continue through with the interview process, or should you pull your application? (Premium Subscribers! I’ll give you 2 tips to help you further evaluate whether or not a company’s culture is toxic!)
  • Why does the interviewer ask you for references? Are they relevant?(For Premium Subscribers, I’ll tell you the #1 mistake people make when providing references!)

Also for Premium Subscribers, I'm telling you:

  • How to explain why you may be looking for a new job in less than a year.
  • What interview questions your can ask to better evaluate opportunities and avoid having to leave "too soon" again.
  • Interview questions you can ask to evaluate if there are internal candidates for the job you're interviewing for, and how to combat that.

Don't forget about the Stupid Interview Questions (are you a beach person or a mountain person?), and a jobseeking horror story about being rejected for an internal candidate after 8 interviews with 9 people over 2 months.

Jobseekers, have a great rest of your week, and good luck with those applications!

-Adam

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Jaimie Hambrick

CFO | Financial Controller | Tenacious Problem Solver | Humor Enthusiast | Public Speaker

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Adam Karpiak This was an application for a CFO of a 100 million dollar company. You read that right. Elementary school.

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Carla McClure

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Not so great…

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I loathe the stupid questions. Loathe. Them.

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