By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter describes what firms are looking to disqualify you when they ask this question.
Today, I want to offer up 1 of those tough interview questions that show up from time to time. The question is, “So, I want that your resume and you have had a lot of jobs. Why have you had a lot of jobs?”
You can understand from an employer’s perspective that they are hiring someone and they help is like a marriage that last for a long long time and you look like someone who, when the going gets tough, you get going… Out the door.
There are several different ways to approach answering this question. The 1st 1 is, if it happened early in your career, you can point to the fact that when you were young, you didn’t have the perspective that you do now for the hills you can acknowledge that and that you wised up. Somewhere along the line.
“I now understand that persistence is sometimes more important than the sometimes alleged again and I start to tough through situations when they got more difficult. “
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The 2nd possible way of answering this question is if, some of these changes were because your consultant and you laid out your resume in a way where you just listed each of your individual engagements there and not the consulting firm names, you can very simply say, “Many of what you see, there are consulting assignments where I was only expected to be there for 5 or 6 months. As a matter of fact, some of the engagements ran long, because they like my work so much that they kept me around longer than the original contract was for.” That becomes the 2nd way you can address.
A third way, and this is a variation that may apply to more recent economic times, you can point to the economy. “I intended to stay with each of these firms for a long time. However, the economy decimated sectors of our business. Eventually, our firm, in an effort to survive, needed to cut people. I was 1 of the last ones in and became 1 of the 1st ones out. As much as people like my work, and if you check my references you’ll find that, I like the work of everyone else in the group and became very much like ‘eeny meeny miny mo’ when they made their decisions. It wasn’t a reflection of my capabilities. It wasn’t a reflection on my work. I was told they will provide great references. They basically chop the newest one.
That’s how I would handle it from 3 different angles based on how it was in your career.
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