47. Interviewing
• Follow‐up!!!
• Thanks for time
• Answer any follow‐up questions
• Provide clarifications to answers that you want to tweak
• Ask a question to keep the dialogue going
• If you are rejected – Follow‐up!!!
• Thanks for the time, be gracious!
• Ask if they know where your skills might be more helpful
• Offer to forward folks from you network that may be a better fit
• Always be helpful.
• When they have another position, you want them to remember you!
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48. Interviewing
• Get good at handling rejections
• You are going to get lots of them
• They make steel harder by putting it in a very high fire and pounding on it
• Thomas Edison tested 10,000 light blubs before one worked
• Rejections, obstacles, the “four letter words” in life,
all make us stronger
• They require us to dig deeper inside ourselves, exercising the gifts, talents,
strengths, wisdom, God gave each of us
• Dealing with these things gives us experience exercising virtues we all need
• Patience, flexibility, creativeness, tenacity, …
• Without obstacles to overcome how do we learn and get better and
stronger and more skilled at serving our Creator’s will?
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