https://brianmcivor.podbean.com/e/things-interviewers-hate-how-to-get-interviewers-on-your-side/
If you are into podcasts – I am launching a podcast channel on podbean where I shall put up short audio session that will help you with career and interview matters.
From over 20 years of coaching interviewees and training interviewer – ten pet peeves that drive interviewers nuts.
This podcast will get you into the interviewer’s good books.
That’s like saying that you know how to bake a whiskey cake because you know what the ingredients are. Too much whiskey and…….
Some people spend too much time on the wrong elements of STAR. They will give you loads of situation but precious little real action. Interviewers like their interviewees to be like their Saturday nights – get to the action quickly.
If you want to know how to bake the perfect whiskey cake – talk to Mary Berry. But if you want the perfect interview you have come to the right place. 
My clients are reporting that preparing for online interviews brings its own stress. Not everybody feels natural in front of a PC screen or a tablet – especially if your future is on the line. It’s like being asked to read the Six O’Clock News at a moment’s notice. It takes a bit of practice, the right script and a bit of self confidence. My own work in radio and tv presentation over the last 20 years has taught me some useful tips. I am happy to talk to you about overcoming those online butterflies. Be prepared for months of learning, hard work, practice, failure and a lot of falling on your rear end.
Sounds familiar -it is just like life itself!
Despite the new-age hype that “ask the universe for it and it’s yours” the real world challenge is to find a set of career options that marry your best skills, expertise, results and traits into something that will give you the rewards you deserve.
It will take a bit of time and the best that you have got.
This video takes you through the last stage of our Career Detection process.
Learn about the hidden job market and why it’s not a good thing to send out a shed load of CVs.
There is always a better way – call me.
COMING out of COVID – ReCycling the Lockdown Mindset.
Already there is a lot of talk of life after Covid – or life with it in semi-lockdown for a long time to come. The figures for future unemployment are alarming – hundreds of thousands of people in the catering, tourism and leisure industry in Ireland,for example, have lost their secure futures already.
When the economy starts to recover there will be a lot of us looking for jobs – just to survive. Hundreds of thousands of unsolicited CVs will be sent out – online and in paper form. Over 95% of them will not be acknowledged in and of the remainder of them will be bad news. That’s an awful lot of rejection – a mountain of discouragement.
How will you deal with that if you are in this unfortunate position?
One of the keys to survival will be in how you reframe our thinking. One of things that got us through months of lockdown was how we reframed the experience as an opportunity – think of the creative way people managed and amused themselves their families, friends and neighbours.
Maybe it’s time to reuse that Covid Lockdown Mindset and manage a challenging situation with the best of what we have.
My friend and Publisher Frank Scott-Lennon is rewriting the book I contributed to during the great recession.
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TODAY is the FIRST DAY of the NEW NORMAL
So what’s normal?
I have sort of got used to:
Things happening in real time – not in a frantic panic.
Time to think, to be thankful.
Time to catch up with friends and others.
Opportunities to learn new things.
Great conversations and encounters I have had since things started.
I shall never get used to :
Lack of in-person contact
Not being able to share rituals of celebration and leave-taking in person.
Touch
Making music with others.
The presence of others.
It’s still evolving –
“When the winds of change blow – some build walls, others build windmills” Peter Hawkins
here.
One of the benefits of the enforced isolation is that it has thrown the distinction between urgent and important into sharp relief. The world has been coping with a situation that is both urgent and important – and people have grown in the process and shown genuine humanity to their fellow human beings. Now, we may have a better understanding of what is really important – instead of merely urgent – instead of having our lives thrown into panic mode by contrived emergencies and demands. It has given us a tantalising glimpse of a brave new world.Based on an exercise from the best-seller What Colo(ur) is Your Parachute? by Richard Nelson Bolles – Published by Ten Speed Press.