Category: Interviewing and Offers
How to Address Questions About Current And Desired Salary
The all-important “What’s your current and desired salary?” questions that are typically asked in a job interview can be challenging to address especially if you haven’t spent any time preparing your thoughts for how you would respond to these questions. I view these salary questions as a poker game where the goal of one party is to get the other party to lay down their cards first. The key to knowing how to address these questions is proper research and preparation. It’s important to understand that the primary goal for the employer is to simply find out if you’re within their [...]
7 Tips to Ace Your Next Phone Interview
Time and time again, candidates underestimate the importance of the initial phone interview and choose to "wing it" instead of taking ample time to prepare in advance. While phone interviews are more informal than face-to-face interviews, it’s the critical first step in determining if you move onto the next round. This is the first impression that you leave with the employer, so you want to make sure that you shine! Here are our top supply chain phone interview tips that can increase your odds of moving forward to the next stage of the hiring process: Give Yourself Time to [...]
APICS Career Coach Webinar: How to Evaluate and Negotiate a Job Offer
Our leader, Rodney Apple, who also serves as the APICS Career Coach, will be presenting another webinar for APICS members on Wednesday, December 17th from 1pm – 2pm CST. His newest white paper and webinar are titled "How to Evaluate and Negotiate a Job Offer" and will teach job seekers how employers calculate job offers and provide advice to help candidates improve their offer evaluation and negotiation skills. APICS members that are interested in participating in this webinar can click here to register. The white paper will be released in early January. If you can’t make the webinar you can always [...]
