EXECUTIVE COACHING
An Executive Coaching, Corporate Communication & Etiquette Blog, by Kathleen Prunty
Coach Kathleen Prunty
There is more that one reference type. Professional references refer to a colleague or boss who has direct knowledge of your work product and your work ethic.
A personal reference comes from a friend who can speak about your personal character or your civic contributions.
Always ensure that you have your reference types straight and are providing the right reference for … the right opportunity.
Coach Kathleen
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It is perfectly fine to check with a potential employer to determine the status of your application.
It is not fine to check every day with demands for action and hiring. Doing that makes you seem very desperate.
Check in with your contact once every 7-10 days. Always thank them for their time and efforts on your behalf. Calling more than that can feel like stalking. Stalkers … don’t get hired.
Coach Kathleen
You have been working a hot job prospect for weeks. Suddenly, you get a rejection letter in the mail.
Resist the urge to call the hiring manager to find out why you were not hired. Hiring managers will never answer that question because they know it could put them and their company at risk for a lawsuit.
Calm down and write a letter of thanks for the time they spent reviewing your application or interviewing you. Remark about the greatness of the company and wish them well in their future endeavors.
Dissapointment can be turned into something productive. Send a nice note. A nastyrgram will only confirm for the hiring manager … that they were right in not hiring you.
Coach Kathleen
It is true that you should always try to help yourself, especially when things are tough.
I ask you to consider the opposite. When things are tough in your world, helping someone else may change your energy force field so much that you may be helped and reenergized in the process.
Try it because … karma is a beautiful thing.
Coach Kathleen
There are many reasons why a person interviewing for a job may not get it. Some reasons are good and some reasons have more to do with a hiring managers bias.
With that bias in mind, never wear a garment to an interview that displays a manufacturers logo or emblem in a prominent place. It may signal haughtiness to the hiring manager or worse yet it may convey that you would prefer to look like a billboard … rather than the competent professional that you are.
Coach Kathleen