Fit Happens! How to Recognize When it is the Ideal Job.
Posted by Saundra Lee on Thu, Dec 15, 2011 @ 04:52 AM
“Fit” is when you find a job that is perfect for you and the company feels that you are an ideal fit for the job. In 25 years of recruiting and 12 years of Corporate Accounting & Finance Headhunting, “Fit” is THE MOST AMAZING PHENOMENON I have witnessed!
Here are 3 ways to recognize the best job fit:
1. Go See! Most of the time, you will not be able to pre-judge the job opportunity without going to the company and interviewing with the hiring manager. A job description and company hearsay have little to do with the reasons a job candidate ends up really wanting the job.
Job hunting is like buying a house, the picture might be great and the description may be ideal but you don’t know if you can live there until you walk in the door.
2. You can be yourself! In the interview, you feel like you can be yourself, your(professional)self of course. In other words, all the wonderful things you bring to the table seem to REALLY excite the hiring manager and the team you will work with.
3. Q&A is encouraged. You are able to get questions answered with enthusiasm. When you ask well thought out questions about the job content and the business, they are answered with excitement. When the job is the right fit, the interviewer will be enthused that you even had the perspective to ask such an amazing question. This excitement usually means that the hiring manager has long term plans for you.
There are only 3 things you control in the interview process. Once you have focused all of your energy on the aspects you can control, it is time to let go. As long as you know you did the absolute best you could do, then it is easier to accept that if that job is right for you, they will choose you. Sometimes we beat ourselves up about a job that we interviewed for but did not get only to realize, in retrospect, that it was not the right fit.
Do the best you can do at selling yourself every time and the when it is the right opportunity, the company will be thrilled to hire you! At that point, when they make an offer, you can trust your gut.
Once a company wants you and you want them, you can negotiate.I have put together 2 videos on “How to Answer the Money Question.”
Watch the 2 minute “short answer” and then download the 8 minute video for a more intense salary negotiation situation.
Posted by:Saundra LeePresidentDubin & Lee