Archive for the ‘Interview’ Category

Job interviews can be pretty nerve wracking. As you wait in the lobby anxiously waiting to hear your name called, you consistently file through the list of answers and information you’ve memorized and prepared. Your name is called, you walk into the office, and the interview begins.

Going just by the indication of the name, it is pretty clear that the job of a medical assistant is to take care of medical documents and reports safely. Both in small and large hospitals you can see these assistants doing work right from the basic responsibilities to the clinical and medical aspects of the work. Now days, medical assistants can choose from a lot of specific departments in which they can specialize in. Some specialties include optometric, orthodontic, orthopedic, physician or in the general field of medical studies.

HR people report they spend about 15 seconds on each resume. 15 seconds!

How can you ever hope to make your resume so appealing, so note-worthy that it makes it over to the next pile? The answer is NOT to print it on a toilet paper roll or some other dumb idea.

For many decades a commonly held view has been that academic training and degrees was the key factor in advancing your career and making you more desirable in the marketplace.

People flocked to universities and colleges to take evening courses and earn advanced degrees with hope that the additional credential on their resume would allow them to land their ideal job. This is still going on today.

The basis for this belief is the view that industry or job specific knowledge will make you a more desirable job candidate. Do you still believe this?

How many people do you suppose go into an interview with solutions to the challenges that your prospective company is facing? Or the challenges that the person conducting the interview is facing? Now having solutions would presuppose that one also knows what those challenges are. Yet imagine, how powerful the interview presentation would be if one knew the challenges and had the solutions going into an interview. What kind of leg up would that give you?

Knowing what the challenges are.