Over the last five years, I’ve experienced a convergence of events in my personal life that drove me to consider the need to change my circumstances and with it, hopefully my personal and professional destiny. First I became a father. Then I learned that I have a neurological disorder, which affects my mobility and is […]
SuperVision: How to Answer Questions About Your Supervisory Style
Supervision is hard. Developing a coherent supervisory style is even harder. And explaining your supervisory style in an interview? Really, really hard. John Mayo and I will be discussing how to approach questions about supervision and your supervisory style in a job interview on The Grill.
Getting Grilled in Your Job Interview: Preparing for the "Question Behind the Question"
When preparing for an interview, it’s important to approach every question critically, and read between the lines. On “The Grill,” Higher Ed Career Coach Sean Cook and co-host John Mayo, Jr., Area Coordinator for Traditional Housing at Western New England College, will discuss the “questions behind the questions,” and help job-seekers plan their approach to common questions.
If Questions are the Currency of Interviews, Where's the Bank?
Yesterday, we talked about ways that candidates can prepare for interviews by anticipating questions and preparing their answers. As mentioned in that article, questions and answers can be seen as the “currency” of interview. This may have left some of you asking “Where’s the Bank?” Good news! We’re opening a “question bank” at HigherEdCareerCoach.Com and […]
You Have Answers, We Have Questions!
Questions and answers are the currency we trade in job interviews. They help us evaluate the parameters of a potential working relationship, and to feel out whether the various pieces of the picture will “fit” together into a coherent whole.