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Interviewing Using Your Personality Type

Awareness is important in job interviews. Self-awareness is even more important. With years placing finance & accounting execs, I’ve seen how personality types—introverts, extroverts, and ambiverts—shape success differently during the interview process. Leveraging your personality type can turn a potential hair-raising grilling into a big win. 🏆 Introverts, about 36% of U.S. workers (APA, 2025), excel in focused settings—one-on-ones are their turf—but group [...]

dhobeika2025-03-18T10:16:39-04:00March 18th, 2025|

Resumes & ATS Systems

Let’s talk resumes real quick. In today’s job market, your resume often faces a faceless, amorphous gatekeeper: the Applicant Tracking System (ATS). With 99% of Fortune 500 companies using ATS to filter applications (Capterra), and 75% of resumes getting rejected before a human even sees them (Columbia CCE), standing out is tougher than ever. So, how do you beat the bots and land in [...]

dhobeika2025-02-21T08:51:18-05:00February 21st, 2025|

The Great Detachment

The workplace is facing a new challenge: "The Great Detachment." According to a Gallup December article, employees are increasingly dissatisfied and disconnected, even as quit rates decline. Unlike the Great Resignation, workers are staying put due to a cooling job market and inflation, but they’re feeling stuck and disengaged. This hidden discontent poses risks to productivity, talent retention, and organizational change initiatives. 😓 [...]

dhobeika2025-02-18T09:01:46-05:00February 18th, 2025|

Tough Interview Questions

You’ve landed that big interview. Are you ready? Most interviews are scheduled during the workday, squeezed in between your everyday work responsibilities. That said, make certain to prepare your thoughts the night before and calm your mind as you head into the appointment. But how to handle those tough interview situations and/or questions? They can come in many different forms. 🤔 As a [...]

dhobeika2025-02-14T08:57:40-05:00February 14th, 2025|

Deepfake Candidates

Here’s a (relatively) new concept in hiring & recruiting. And with evolving AI technology, the problem might only get worse. The issue is Deepfake Candidates. This sophisticated use of AI technology to impersonate job applicants can lead to costly and damaging consequences for organizations. 💰 Recent insights reveal that hiring a deepfake candidate could cost companies millions, not just in financial terms but [...]

dhobeika2025-01-10T10:44:31-05:00January 10th, 2025|

Counteroffer – Accept or Not?

After a frustrating period of not getting promoted or raises, you finally decided to look for a new position. You’ve found a great company who offered you a raise and promotion (or track to promotion). How exciting! Your current company didn’t make it easy on you though. Your boss didn’t accept your resignation and put a counteroffer on the table matching your other [...]

dhobeika2023-12-13T09:39:34-05:00December 13th, 2023|

Tell Me About Yourself

🕵🏻Tell me about yourself. It’s one of everyone’s favorite interview questions and one I role play frequently with candidates. 🌟 Mastering the "Tell me about yourself" question is essential for making an engaging first impression. In a recent article in The Muse, Stav Ziv provides interesting ideas and examples to help you shine during this critical moment. Here are four key takeaways to [...]

dhobeika2023-10-31T09:14:29-04:00October 24th, 2023|

Using References in a Job Search

Your confidential search for the next step in your career is moving right along. 🤫 Interviews are going well, and you’re headed into the final steps. Then the recruiter asks for references. Gulp. How am I going to do that – this is supposed to be confidential? Statistics vary but different studies show up to 80% of employers check references before making a [...]

dhobeika2023-10-31T09:17:01-04:00October 18th, 2023|

Coffee Badgers in the Workplace

Here we go. Ready for a new workplace term? I’ve got you covered. The new term making the rounds is “coffee badging”. ☕This is a new trend where employees go into the office (badge in) for a brief period of time, usually to grab a coffee, show their faces around, socialize with coworkers and then leave. This trend is becoming increasingly popular as [...]

dhobeika2023-10-31T09:19:09-04:00October 17th, 2023|

Are All Meetings Necessary?

Meetings are a necessary part of work, but they can also be a major time suck. According to Zippia, the average American spends 3 hours per week in meetings and 30% of workers say they spend over 5 hours per week in meetings. 🤯 A few other quick meeting stats from the same study: ⏳In the US there are approx. 55 million meetings [...]

dhobeika2023-10-31T09:20:35-04:00October 16th, 2023|

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