| Topic Name: |
Second Interview with HR |
| Message Name: |
Insightful optimist |
| Date Posted: |
04/20/2002 |
| In Reply To: |
Thank you for clarifying your situation. With your successful passing of the company's exams, and their continued interest, it's obvious you've proven yourself to be of great potential value. Your concerns then seems to center on where you can be most effective both for the company and for yourself.
You are in the enviable position of being able to define your own direction. This is where you have to take a risk and take the initiative. Take the bull by the horns, and begin to guide the recruiter to a more specific area in which you feel you can be really, wildly successful. If your direction is towards recruiting and training, as you had indicated, ask questions that highlight your understanding of employment issues like retainment, loyalty, and compensation. Show the company you have some ideas in this area that fits their methods. Share some particularly telling story of how you "found" talent and how you might translate this skill into the workplace. For training, highlight the times when you imparted knowledge. Did you develop, deliver, demonstrate the materials? Ask about their education programs for their employees and have some suggestions ready. Use their web site, comprehensive and complete as it is, to glean clues as to what areas your qualifications and your career goals match their needs.
While you are laying out your short term goals for the company, describe your long term goals, too. This will confirm to the company that you intend to grow within your field, and within the company. Distinguish yourself over and above what is expected, the general HR skils, interpersonal and communication skills, teamwork, etc., and present and support that which makes you unique and valuable to the company.
The point here is you have to choose a direction, and in so choosing risk not agreeing with the direction the company might have choosen for you. You are at a crossroads, a place you'll find yourself repeated in your career. Be ready. Be audacious. Be bold.
I wish you the best of luck. |
| Message: |
Thank you once more.
Your message is obviously not cynical, not even skeptical, as one could have expected from your nickname; on the contrary you know very well how to boost one's morale and the perspective you induce is quite optimistic.
Let me also tell that the examples you highlighted were targeted exactly to my greatest asset: my teaching experience.
Thanks a lot.
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