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[...]... goal in the interviewing process is to sell themselves to a perspective employer They have to focus on what they can do for the potential employer rather than what the employer can do for them When people are emotionally stressed, they usually want to focus on their own needs, rather than on the needs of someone else They often forget that, in order to get a job offer, they have to focus on how they can... etc) They remember World War II and, if they didn’t experience it, felt the immediate impact of the Great Depression They’re fiscally responsible Work/life balance is very important to them, and if they haven’t retired yet, they’re likely to just “redirect” their careers “Boomers” have a tendency to identify themselves with their career achievements They invented the 60-hour or more workweek and the. .. as their predecessors experienced scandals in government The drastic and erratic changes in business don’t bother them at all They like to be in control and want fast feedback The “Millennials” (Gen-Y) grew up with technology Everything can or should move fast with them, they’re eager to learn, and they enjoy question- ch01.qxd 11/12/07 10 10:50 AM Page 10 ACING THE INTERVIEW: How to Ask and Answer the. .. run like the people who own them or manage them They focus on what they do as a business, rather than who does it They think that if they do what they do well enough, they will have a model business In general, though, they can be unfocused, disorganized, and ambitious beyond their abilities Many do not have any real system or set of procedures for doing business and operate with a seat-of-thepants... same study—that is, the people who actually employed the workers who were surveyed—ranked these traits on behalf of their employees totally opposite and in reverse as the employees ranked them In other words, management didn’t see the world the same way their employees did Here is another snapshot: A 2005 Conference Board survey stated that 57% of the employees polled didn’t like their jobs and were... You the Job A candidate can usually detect the kind of personality the interviewing authorities may have by the kinds of positions that they hold No one should try to change his or her personality for an interview But candidates should take into account how the interviewing authority sees the world and communicate with them in a way that makes sense to them Fear of Making a Hiring Mistake One of the. .. Authorities and Their Companies 23 The interviewing process, fortunately, involves managers who have probably been in their position or profession for some time A controller doesn’t get the job if he or she isn’t very analytical Where most candidates fail is when, in the interviewing process, they have to interview with someone who has a totally different personality than theirs They don’t recognize the difference... questions, a candidate has to understand the audience with whom he or she is interviewing In the pages to follow, we’ll look at a snapshot of how the hiring authorities you will be interviewing with see the world Unfortunately, most books on interviewing and the job search don’t address at all the nature of the companies you’ll be talking to and the people who will be interviewing you In order to answer... in the interviewing process is to mitigate the fear associated with hiring either you or anyone else Simply understanding and recognizing that most all of these are traits of the organizations and the people with whom you were going to interview will empower you to answer questions more effectively The organizations you are interviewing with don’t care about you as a candidate They care about what they... other words, you have to be asking yourself in the interviewing process, to the best of your ability, “Does this job build upon the experience that I have had before? Is it going to enhance the experience that I’ve had before? If I get two and a half years of this kind of experience, can I leverage it in the future?” Now, these kinds of questions, especially the one about leveraging the new job in the . career achievements. They invented the 60-hour or more workweek and the getting- ahead-through-hard work ethic. There are 80 million of them in the work force. They have. to 64, how- ever, as we will analyze, sees the world differently then the 2 8- or 29-year-old worker. My sense is that the stability factor of these older