I have 1 interview policy
The goal of any leader is help you become the best version of yourself.
I took a leadership class while I was studying an MBA and I think it has been one of the most important classes I have taken.
This allows me to notice if the management is good or not, that’s why this class it was so important to me, if I don’t like nor respect the management, I will move some place else.
In leadership, you have to be able to differentiate the urgent from the important , otherwise things are going to blow up in your face.
You can read/watch more about that below:
https://medium.com/swlh/how-to-master-your-priorities-with-the-urgent-important-matrix-a7904de55266
While the recruiters never buys that I’m a leader that can guide, mentor and develop a group of persons, I do:
Too bad this doesn’t count for IT Recruiter, because I also act as a PM for this.
Long time ago I was taking a CS course and the instructor told us that he will be the second best reacher we will ever have, which of course left us wandering who will be the best? ourselves? some archetype role model?
He ended us saying that the best teacher we will ever have is and will be Google, he will be able to teach whatever subject much quicker that anybody else, so he will aspire to be our second best teacher.
Since then, I have been trying to become the second best teacher for all my students =)
Sometime ago I was discussing with my thesis director about things we wanted on our lifes.
She told me that at that moment of her life she knew exactly what she wanted and that was the most important thing, I told her that that is important but sometimes is even more important to know what you dont want instead.
“The scarcest form of talent is the talent to recognize talent”
Several years ago, “Crown” told me that and he told me that he had it, Halloween 2019 proved that he was correct.
Congrats
I had a round of interviews with a company and the talked several times with the tech recruiter.
At the end the things didn’t workout by 1 thing or another.
Several months later, same tech recruiter contacted me by my personal email saying that she had an opening for me, thing is she wasn’t working for the same company; she didn’t even introduce herself she just said that she found my email on linkedin (I didnt have any review by her at the time).
That just sound like when I salesperson quit and moves to another company in the same industry and tries to steal all the previous clients.
1 week later I got a call from one of her peers, saying that he got my phone from her and had a great opening for me.Of course I said no
I was approached by a recruiter for a job on Reston, Virginia as a WLS admin.
The offer was tempting, expense enough for pay the rent and then some, 1 round trip every year for me and my wife and an open salary. Bad thing about the salary is that, even if it was open, it will be on MXN, so if the MXN devaluates against the USD I will be making less money on and more expensive place…why would I agree to that? If the salary would have been on USD, I will still be thinking about it but on MXN, no way jose
When a manager gives you instructions, he shouldn’t be reminding you about those, you should be following them and letting her/him know if you hit any roadblock, thats what it is expected of you.
I think the same for a manager, if somebody on your org ask you to do something for him, the other shouldn’t be reminding you or asking for updates after missing datelines, that just show poor interest on your success.