I have mentioned this in passing in an earlier write up but recent events have necessitated the need for me to discuss this in detail. Do you know that Body/Mouth odour could hinder your career goals? Imagine turning up for an interview and the interviewer(s) cannot breathe properly because of the body odour /mouth odour coming from you? Isn’t that a big disadvantage already? I recently read a write up which talked about how persistent body odour affected an Executive from making CEO. And guess what? He did not know. Be it a fresh graduate or an experienced hire, know that your chances at getting your desired job or opportunity may be well hindered if your show up at an interview with MO or BO. As an interviewer, it puts me in an uncomfortable place. I most likely will find it hard telling you and I am also thinking, “When this candidate resumes will his/her colleagues have to deal with this type of smell on the regular?” Please make our jobs easy. Tips for dealin...
Let’s break this question into two parts: 1. What are your strengths? During the course of different interviews I have conducted, I have come to realize that candidates always seem to have a number of things to tell you their strengths are. Though I have come across one or two people who could not say what their strengths were. All I can say to those people is, how are we supposed to hire you when you can’t even tell what advantages you have? This matter is for another day. Let’s come to candidates who know or claim to. For entry, fairly past entry level candidates, strengths like: I learn fast, I am a team player, hardworking, may be okay even though there is really nothing special about them as you get to hear these from so many candidates. But for higher levels such as mid-level and particularly senior level candidates you can’t be saying things like I work well in a team, I learn fast etc. Hell No! Those are unacceptable strengths at your level. It is expec...