Interviewing

For some, interviewing can be a tough and very anxious endeavor. While for others, interviewing is as simple as it gets, as it’s a chance to provide a prospective employer with all their skills and experience. Whichever category you find yourself falling into, Kane Solutions is here to help ensure you put your best foot forward during your interviews.

Interview Preparation to Salary Negotiation 

There are many different facets and steps to the interview process:

  • What type of interviewee are you? Understand yourself and the type of interviewee you are, playing to those strengths during the interview. Be sure your intangibles shine through in addition to the actual skills, experience, and traits that you bring.
  • Preparation: Your personal preparation, or lack thereof, can make or break the interview. Run through possible questions you may be asked and prepare for your answers. It goes without saying, but know your own experience and skills. Nothing looks worse in an interview than a question about the candidates experience on their resume and a blank response in return. Be sure you have researched the company that you are interviewing with and have solid, well thought-out questions.   
  • Follow Up: Even in today’s fast pace, go-go world, a follow up thank you to the interviewer is a professional and courteous move that should be followed. It displays a strong level of professionalism on your part.
  • Negotiating Salary: If you are fortunate enough to receive an offer, salary negotiation is an important skill to have in your toolbox.  Not every employer leaves the window open for salary negotiation, but it may be worth your while to dabble here a bit. Even if the salary is non-negotiable, there may be room to negotiate benefits, vacation, or stock options.

Confidence and Competence 

Interviewing starts at the preparation. Without preparation, you’ll probably never make it to the negotiation. Know your strengths and weaknesses and play to them in the interview. Follow-up is a key to your success. It’s usually the small details that separate the offer from the rejection. 

2 06, 2023

How Behavioral Interviewing Helps You Find Better Candidates

By |2023-06-02T13:30:53-04:00June 2nd, 2023|Interviews|

One of the main objectives of an interview is to reveal the strengths and weaknesses of a potential candidate based on how they detail their prior experience, their skills, and their interest in the role you’re interviewing for. The behavioral interview approach focuses on the first item; prior experience. A potential new hire will likely [...]

3 06, 2020

Preparing For a Virtual Interview

By |2020-09-10T16:03:52-04:00June 3rd, 2020|Interviews|

The ongoing COVID-19 crisis is expected to have far reaching effects on the US economy. But it has also triggered several opportunities to transform the way we do business. For instance, life – both personal and professional – has turned increasingly digitalized as we strive to remain competent through a virtual world. A majority of [...]

20 02, 2020

Don’t Get Stumped by a Tricky Interview Question Again

By |2020-06-11T06:51:58-04:00February 20th, 2020|Interviews|

It is not uncommon for employers to ask you tricky questions that are meant to trip you up and cause you to reveal information that you might not have planned to share with them. By asking these questions, employers try to break your carefully constructed image and get a glimpse of the real you, so [...]

3 10, 2019

How to answer: What salary are you looking for?

By |2020-09-10T15:44:18-04:00October 3rd, 2019|Interviews|

Effectively Negotiating your Salary While you may assume that salary discussion is the easier part of a job interview, according to headhunters in Philadelphia, it is the one area where candidates often flounder.  In any case, the salary issue can change the entire complexion of your job interview because ultimately money is a decisive factor [...]

8 08, 2019

How to Obtain Feedback After a Job Interview?

By |2020-09-10T05:57:16-04:00August 8th, 2019|Interviews|

Gathering Interview Feedback Job candidates often face a situation where they believe the interview went well, but for some reason it did not yield a positive result.  If this situation gets repeated in other interviews, it is important to obtain feedback in order to figure out where you might be going wrong, and fix the [...]

5 10, 2018

What Type of Interviewee Are You?

By |2020-09-10T14:43:32-04:00October 5th, 2018|Interviews|

  Staying Sharp During the Interview When you’re preparing for an important job interview, it’s easy enough to go through all of the standard steps. Take the time to learn about the company in advance, get a friend or loved one to ask you a few questions to practice before you go in, pick out [...]

19 07, 2018

Interviewing? How are your intangibles?

By |2020-12-22T06:50:01-05:00July 19th, 2018|Interviews|

Measuring Intangibles with Skills and Experience Right Fit for the Job: With the job market continuing to emphasize skills and credentials, don’t get caught letting your personal brand and the overall quality of your candidacy suffer from poor intangibles. Today’s technical role descriptions are packed with buzzwords and skills, placing significant time commitments on technologists [...]

12 07, 2018

Interviewing Primer (Interview Prep 101)

By |2020-09-10T14:43:52-04:00July 12th, 2018|Interviews|

The Key to Interviewing is Preparation Interview preparation guides and blogs are not exactly a fresh idea, but a fresh reminder and perhaps a few new ideas never hurt. I’ve got some do’s and don’ts that are part of my regular interview prep coaching. Some ideas are as old as time (or myself) and some [...]

28 06, 2018

Looking For an Internship

By |2020-09-10T15:36:25-04:00June 28th, 2018|Interviews, Kane Partners|

Where to Find Internship Programs Are you searching for an internship, but you’re not sure where to start? The most important thing in any job search is having the ability to market yourself and highlight your skills. Yes, it is great to search online and fill out applications, but you could be wasting your time [...]

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After Interview Follow-Up

By |2020-12-23T04:16:08-05:00June 7th, 2018|Interviews|

Following-Up After the Interview Completing your Interview: There are a couple of schools of thought about the actions you should take after an interview; either in-person or on the phone. Many recruiters recommend that you immediately draft a “thank you” note and send it off. Some staffing professionals will tell you an email is a [...]

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