One of the most frustrating things about a job interview is that you have no control over which questions you’ll get asked; you had some killer answers to the really difficult ones, and they didn’t even ask you half of …
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Learning Job Interview Answers is Ineffective
Here’s What you Should Do Instead Go online and search for something like, ‘interview answer’ or ‘what to say in an interview’ and you’ll get over 1 billion results. Some of them will be excellent answers; some of them won’t… …
Could Artificial Intelligence Ever Do Your Job?
Look at this computer, phone or tablet, with its big, stupid screen - will it ever be able to do what you’re doing now? Will it be able to pretend to be working while reading blog posts? Lee Se-dol… …
Thanks for Reaching Out
As I write this on Friday afternoon, I am rubbing my hands with glee, not because it’s the weekend, but because I have a spicy little experiment for us all to try, starting this Monday morning. I would love as …
HR2D2 and CVPO: AI in Recruitment
HR2D2: A droid that works in HR. I know that’s lame but it’s extremely difficult to be funny about HR. Try it; all attempts welcome in the comments. You’re Not What These Droids Are Looking For Are you worried that… …
Interview Preparation Tips: The Top Ten
Simple Advice to Help you Crush your Next Interview If you have a job interview coming up, you really need to ensure that you do absolutely everything right. These interview preparation tips will put you on the path to success.… …
Welcome to Calvinfornia
‘90 hours a week. And loving It!’ Do you know where this quotation comes from? It’s pretty famous. If you identified it as the inscription on the sweatshirt worn by the Apple Macintosh team in 1983, you win a point.… …
What do Flatlining Salaries Mean for the Average Worker?
In news that will come as a surprise to pretty much nobody, the TUC has just revealed that pay for the average British worker was stagnant between 2016 and 2018. The highest earners (pocketing more than £63 an hour) saw… …
The Definition of Mundanity
When Albert Einstein wasn’t busy debunking misconceptions about the fundamental nature of time and space, he had a few interesting things to say about human nature. “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting… …
Crush The Interview
You’re wearing your sharpest outfit. You’ve slept like a log. You’ve rehearsed to perfection. You’re going to crush the interview... but only if you keep one vital question in mind: whose problem am I going to solve? No matter what… …