Virtual Career Fairs: If You Care, You Prepare

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By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter

Virtual Career Fairs are a way to interview with many firms quickly and easily. It is ideal for many types of people, professional and non-professionals alike.

My guest, Steve Edwards of PremierVirtual.com and I discuss preparing and interviewing at them (and much applies to regular interviews, too).

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Jeff Altman 

So my guest today is Steve Edwards. Steve is the CEO of Premier Virtual and an expert in the recruiting and job fair industry. He’s been part of over 7000 hiring events in the last 10 years as a candidate, organization host and empowering the software behind events. He’s spoken to 1000s of job seekers to help them find jobs. And his methods are crazy and a little bit different. But his goal is to help job seekers stick out the job search in the interview process. Steve, welcome.

 

Steve Edwards 

Thanks, Jeff. Thanks for having me excited to be here excited to talk about something I haven’t talked about in a while, how to help these job seekers get jobs in the virtual world, right? The world’s changed. It’s not all in person anymore. You know, it’s going back a little bit. Over?

 

Jeff Altman 

Yeah. So we’re folks, we’re gonna be talking about getting yourself ready for a presentation at a Virtual Job Fair and how to present yourself and how to stand out. So maybe we can just start by talking about how should someone prepare for a virtual career fair so they stand out and they can prepare like no one else. So they’re not boring like all the other people are?

 

Steve Edwards 

Yeah, you know, I look  this when you’re a job seeker. When you’re sitting in a room at a job fair with everybody else. When you have your resume on a job board or you log into a Virtual Job Fair, the people next to you are your competition, what are you going to do to be better than them? So the before the resume, before the job fair starts, you have to prepare for that. So we’re really kind of talking about the virtual world, but a lot of the stuff can be simple, right? And I talked about this. I put on in person job fairs for 10 years or nine years before I got into the virtual world, and then, developed my own software to be able to do that. But it’s you got to prepare yourself, right? How do you prepare yourself? I know not everybody likes to be on camera. I’m a little crazy. I’m a little outgoing. But that’s not everybody out there. But how do you prepare yourself? What are you wearing? What are you acting? Or what do you act like? Can you look in a mirror and give yourself a 30 second pitch of who I am, what I do and why somebody should hire. That’s the first thing you need to be able to do. Because if you can’t sell yourself, how are you going to sell somebody else? Even though you might be saying, ‘Steve, I’m an accountant. I’m HR. So in an interview, you’re selling yourself.

 

Jeff Altman 

And I’m gonna interrupt you because you said something and I don’t want it to get glossed over. And because you went right by it. Its how you look on camera, too. So yes, how do you present against your backdrop? What are you wearing? How good is your camera in order to get clarity on camera? How can you make yourself pop vis a vie the backdrop, and we were talking before we started recording about the blur feature on Zoom, and whether blur is a good way to do it or not? So lots of little things in terms of looking at yourself. And how you stand out visually, too.

 

Steve Edwards 

It’s, you know, know what’s behind you. Right? You see what’s behind me? It’s my wife, my kids, right? That’s the reason I personally work hard on a daily basis to give them a phenomenal life and work hard. And, you know, my kids know, like, this morning, my son was like, ‘Daddy, can you just stay home today?’ And I go to like your house? Yeah, I go to like the pool. He goes, Yeah. And I go, ‘Gavin, tell him. (avin’s my youngest. Who’s four.) I go, Gavin, tell Tristan, why I’m going to work. He goes, ‘Dad has to make money so we can live a good life. Right? So I’m teaching that earlier. But the reason I say that is that’s my background, right? It’s because we can have conversations. I listened to country music, I listened to hip hop, but I would never put a Metallica or a Tupac sign behind me because automatically people are going to judge you based on that. Maybe they’re anti whatever is back. Don’t have a suit, especially in college, right? You have a beer sign behind you or something that’s not appropriate behind you know your surroundings Know what’s behind you so they can see, right? Like I have, there’s glare on my camera, right? So if I go like this, you’re gonna see my camera that’s there. And it all depends on the time of the day of where the glare comes from, right? Is it the glare from this side? Or is it the glare from the site, know where you’re at, know that your audio works, right? If you’re going to be on a phone, don’t just expect to be on a phone like this, because it’s going to be shake. Your hand is not steady, I don’t care, right? Unless you’re a sniper in the army, your hand isn’t steady when you’re holding your phone. So put it on a tripod, put something on there. So when you’re looking at it, you’re looking directly at it, you’re not looking up, you’re not looking down, you’re looking right at it. Right. You know, and if you have two screens, like right now I’m looking at my screen, which I’m actually watching myself, and I’m watching Jeff on here. But I’m not looking at the camera that’s over here. Know what you’re looking at. Know your surroundings. Give the people respect. When you’re interviewing now, looking away looking down saying, I just got a text from my girlfriend in here, right? I hope my wife doesn’t see that. Right? That, you don’t want to have. Right? That was a joke. I don’t have a girlfriend. Right? But that’s the kind of things that people see. And we see that in interviews, right? And you’re now everybody’s doing video interviews. So know what’s around you. If you got a cat, a dog, a kid or something like that, have them in another room. Okay, you know, try to go if your kid is sick, and they’re going to be coming in to say ‘please, I have this interview,’ to not be there. You know? But know your surroundings when you’re there. Don’t do an interview at Starbucks. Right? I just see people walking behind you. Right? It’s not a good look. Yes, you can. Yes, you can blur your camera out. Right? But sometimes when you use those background features, all of a sudden there’s issues with the camera. Know your surroundings. Make sure there. 

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Jeff Altman 

We were starting to talk about the interview preparation for doing video, and how people should get ready. And, like I said, you talked about what they were and kind of went right by it. And I didn’t want to let that one go. So yeah. So how should people get themselves ready for a video.

 

Steve Edwards 

There’s two aspects that I like to talk about, about getting ready for virtual. So the first I’m going to talk about is getting ready for a Virtual Job Fair, or virtual, we’ll call it hiring event. The second is the actual interview that you’re getting ready for, okay? And there’s a reason I break those up into some of the things are exactly the same. So if I know if I’m going to a Virtual Job Fair, the first thing that I want to be able to do is I want my profile complete. So name, email address, phone number, not not all my competition has where you can put their experience in. But we give it the candidates because we want you to show who you are not just a piece of paper, right? Resumes, I won’t get into what I think a resume is. But you know, a resume is a piece of paper that you just put words on, right, but your experience that you can put it in a profile, fill out the whole profile. I personally like pictures, and I know some people don’t like pictures because of, DEI, and they want to stay away from that, and I get it. But you’re gonna they’re gonna see somebody regardless, you know, you’re gonna have there. But if I go into a job fair, if I go in, and I have everything filled out, it shows I care, right? It’s the same thing as job seeker, if you’re looking at a company, and Company A has their company name, their website, and that’s it. And the other company has their name, their website, a logo, all of their social media, they prepare. You’re gonna be like, ‘Wow, this was more interesting, because I can see more, right? It’s the same thing as you as a job seeker is prepare yourself, right? And then getting ready because atvmost of these virtual job fairs. Now, it goes right into a video. You’re going to chat. Okay. Now, when you’re chatting, a question not to ask, if the if the company has their jobs listed in there. And let’s just say the jobs an accounting job. Don’t go into the chat and say, ‘what jobs do you have?’ Because it shows the jobs. So you could say, ‘Hey, I see you have some accounting jobs. I’m looking for an HR job. Do you  have any HR jobs as well?’ Right, say what it is that you saw.And then ask that question, right? ‘Can you tell me a little bit about your company?’ It shows that you just went in. You didn’t read. You didn’t look. You didn’t prepare. Right? Because if you go in, if somebody comes in to me and asked me what jobs I have, and I have all my jobs listed, the next person comes in and says something specifically about a job. I’m going to talk to the person who’s specific about a job, right, because I’m going to show I care. But I can also on my platform is I can look at a candidate. I can see their profile, I can see their experience, I can watch their video resume, their video interview that they put on there, I can watch their see, you know, the questions that were asked of  them, I can see all that and get that. That’s why I say you have to have the full profile that’s there. And again, knowing your surroundings, knowing it’s there. 

 

Jeff Altman 

I’m going to pause you here for one second, because I’m sure the audience got some clarity here. So I know your profile, your job fair service, your virtual fair service, there’s the opportunity to complete a profile in advance. You can see the jobs that the firms have in advance. Is that a common feature for other services as well or unique to yours?

 

Steve Edwards 

It’s not unique to ours. But you know, it really depends on the call the host of the event is that they want . . . when do they want to connect the job seekers and employers. Some of them open it a week before, so they can see all the jobs. But a lot of times, especially we’ll call it job fair companies, they don’t open it before it opens at 10am. That job seeker can log in at 10am and that’s the first time they see the jobs in the companies. Why did they do that? Because they don’t have a lot of companies in there. They don’t want a candidate come in the day before, look at ABC mortgage, say, ‘Oh, they’re hiring, I’m going to go directly to ABC Mortgage. I’m not going to log back in on the day of the job fair. So it’s kind of a say 50-50 of, you know, companies, we’re seeing it more where the companies are are opening it early. Let’s say 24 hours before where a candidate can log in. Because a candidate can log in, they can see the jobs, mark the jobs that they’re interested in, leave notes about the company and then go back in on the day of the job fair and say ‘okay, so out of these, you know, 100 companies, these are

 

Jeff Altman 

5 firms, for example,

 

Steve Edwards 

these are my, well, you know, they can rank up. So these are my five that I want to go after. We did a job fair that had 1700 companies. Largest ever Job Fair in history. And it was set up so it’s efficient. When I tell somebody 1700 companies like, how do I get through 1700 employers? You don’t have to, because it’s all based on categories. If I’m looking for sales companies in Boston, I would click on Boston and sales. And now just that list of 30 companies comes up. So I can go in and just see those 30 companies that are going to be in there. So again, we make it very easy, very efficient for them. But kind of know what you want, know what you’re looking for, as well. You know, I see that so many times. And, you know, it’s another thing to talk about right on the chat before we get to the video is, if you know, if you go into somebody’s virtual hiring room, and they say, ‘Do you have any questions,’ and you just blow them off, that’s kind of rude. Uh, you know, I like to say no, you know, it’s not really something I’m looking for. Right? Better be prepared as a candidate is there. Out of out of everything out there, and people hate that I say this, but I will say this, and I’ve said it for years, and I’ve made a lot of people mad. The people that hop jobs more than anybody out there are recruiters. And guess what? If you tick off a recruiter at one company, and they go to another company, and they remember that you were rude to them, guess what? They’re not gonna be there. Happened to me. I had a guy who was so rude to me one time at a job fair. And the guy was acting like he was somebody else, you know, that he was too good for a job fair. And guess what? Three months later he reached out to me, ‘Hey, you know, I’m looking for a job. Do you have anything in this? Can you connect with a recruiter?’ I go, ‘Nope. I go, here’s the message that you sent me before. You were so rude to me.  

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Jeff Altman 

There’s a line that each of us establish

 

Steve Edwards 

Yes, I like that. Right. That’s that’s the right way. But now let’s get into the video. Okay, so I’m at a job fair. Okay. And I have it here. Now, I wear the Premier Virtual polo. Every day to the office, I wear a polo. If I ever have like, if I’m on a call, and I see other people are in suits, and I’m underdressed, I have two shirts and a tie that’s right over there that I can see, walk over, put those on and then turn on my camera. So I kind of know my surroundings. I know what I have, but I’m prepared. It’s the same thing at a virtual job fair. Somebody says, ‘Hey, do you want to you know, jump on a camera. You don’t have to be wearing your suit and tie the whole time or you know, your dress jacket. Have it sitting next to you. And then as soon as somebody comes and says, ‘Hey, I want to . . . are you available for a video interview? And you can say ‘yes, just give me one minute to change. Put everything on. Now you’re looking sharp,

 

Jeff Altman 

So you can see them before they can see you. Typically. Thank you. Yeah, that’s great. You’re

 

Steve Edwards 

You’re going is you’re gonna see them, right? They always say on interviews is dress, you know, one to two levels above what you’re interviewing for. I went and I for the longest time, I wore jeans, polos and loafers. And I would go to all of these events. And I was going to and then I got asked to speak on a panel one time. And it was a local congressman, and two other CEOs and I was there. And I look over and I’m like, I will never because I believe right I like you know, to dress nice. I go, I will never be overdressed again. So now like and I go to conferences or anything like that. Now I’m dressed and I go a little bit over right. Last week I was I was speaking at an event and I had the tie and the suit on. And I was the only one in a tie out of the entire the entire group of panelists. Because I was right there. So So practices. Now the second thing I want to talk about is the interview. When I’m going to interview with you. So I’m going to interview with Jeff, for Jeff’s position that he’s hiring for. Still, if it’s going to be a zoom interview, you’re still doing all the same thing, right? You know your backgrou’nd, you know what’s around, but the thing that you need to do before that is you need to research the company. Okay. Now this is where a lot of people think Steve, you really are nuts and you’ve really gone off the deep end. But you want to have a minimum of 15 to 20 questions ready for that.

 

Steve Edwards 

20 questions!!

 

Steve Edwards 

That’s the question most candidates think, right? Because what do we get taught? Right? When I used to ask that in my in person events, and they’re always like, three, three, and then you get the people that said, one. I used to be that guy, right? I go to an interview, and I haven’t interviewed a ton in my life, you know, luckily, but at the end of the interview, I was like, ‘Do you have any questions?’  ‘Just one. Why are you wasting your time?’ ‘What do you mean?’ ‘Well, why are you wasting your time interviewing anybody else? You know, I’m the best here for it. Right?’ Wrong. Now granted the positions, I was interviewing for, that worked, and I got the job. But it wasn’t the right thing to do. Right. So I learned over time, but you want to prepare, because if I’m going to work for a company, and let’s say, I’m going to work for Jeff and his company. I’m going to research his company. I’m going to find out everything I can. I’m gonna go to LinkedIn, I’m going to find out about Jeff. I’m gonna say, ‘Jeff, you know, do you have any questions? You know, they’re gonna tell me yes. But here’s the thing is I’m gonna walk into that page. The last interview I ever went on, which I think was 15 years ago, I went in, and I had three pages of questions. I asked every question about the person I was interviewing, as well as the company.

 

Jeff Altman 

Give us some examples of questions that people should ask.

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Steve Edwards 

So you know, when you go in is, you know, one I love a question is, you know, why did you switch from this company to that company? Right? Can you tell me a little bit about, you know, the culture? Right? I love a culture question. Just to kind of see, you know, what they have, right? Is this an inperson . . .  right now . . .An important question is, is this in person, remote? or hybrid? Right? Because I think right now, that is a, that is a huge, huge question out there. I know this isn’t on this, right. But I just spoke about this at a conference, a great resignation, vs the great return, right? As people are, they’re forcing people to come back to work, more people are quitting, right? Who’s gonna win this battle that’s on there. But you can ask those questions. But here’s the thing is when you’re in there, and you’re now sitting in interview, having a question, and that person, right, the person who’s interviewing you, right, I have my pen in, I got my notes out open, they tell you something, you’re like, ‘Ah, that was actually . . .  that’s great. That’s one of the questions that I have when you write down? You write the answer, right, you look away, you go away from their eyes, and you look down. Next one, you do the same thing. Oh, yeah. That was another question. So at the end, ‘do you have any questions?’ You know, what I did have, you know, had a couple of questions here. You know, here’s one question that I had. And here was the answer that you gave me. Right. Another one, here was a question that I had. And here’s the answer that you gave me, right? It showed that you prepare, right? If you prepare your care. So you want to make sure that you’re preparing for this, and then you get through, you’re never gonna get through 15 to 20 questions, but you’re gonna go through the couple that they answered? And then you’re gonna go into, you know, a couple a couple other things. You know, I’m a huge fan of, you know, again, this kind of kind of goes back into the forward when you ask the questions is, my first question that I love to tell people to do is when you walk in to that interview room, you look them in the eye, you shake their hands, they you know what, Jeff? I am so excited to be here today. What was it about my resume that you saw that you wanted to bring me in for an interview. You flip the script on it immediately, and you try to take control of that  interview. A lot of people can’t do that, right? They’re not great. It takes a special kind of person and a special kind of execution on doing that. But you can show them right. I’m excited to be here, right? I’m so excited. Even if you’re nervous, right? There’s a lot of people that don’t take pressure, well, especially if it’s a group interview, but you could still say, You know what, I’m excited to be here today.

 

Jeff Altman 

I’m gonna pause you here, because I have a slightly different take on that first part of the conversation, because to me, you may have seen a job description. And you may have seen something on the system about the position that they’re looking for. But one thing HR people have told me time and again, job descriptions are maybe 80% accurate. And when I make that comment to them, they always laugh and say ‘if we’re lucky.’ So you just want to start off by confirming what it is that they’re looking for,  too. And my way of doing is to say, ‘hey, thanks so much for reaching out to me. I really appreciate you making time to talk with me today. I know I saw that position you listed here. But I wanted to get your take on the role. Could you tell me about the job as you see it and what I can do to help?’ Because normally you’ll ask that question at the end of the interview, where it’s too late to do anything with the information and that you get. Because they’ve already decided whether they’re going to interview you any further. So I believe you do that at the very beginning of the interview so you can start connecting the dots for them with every question that you ask them, that they asked you, and make it easy for them to see how you fit the role. So a slightly different approach work. But . . .

 

Steve Edwards 

yeah, and I think, you know, for a lot of people, your approach is going to work a lot better than my approach, right? There’s a lot of people my approach will work for, but you’re right, right? So many things about job descriptions, you know, in talking about job descriptions, I’m going to talk about resumes for a second, okay. So you know, I’m prefacing this, I am not telling you to lie on your resume. Okay? BUT. So if I’m looking at a company’s job description, and I look at what I’ve done, and it’s the same thing in different words, right, tomato tomahto. I’m gonna change my resume a little bit, okay. And I’m gonna give this example that I had a client of my large FinTech company. And, you know, they never really used to outsource people. They got a new VP came in, and she had worked with me for a long time, loved me, they brought me in, right? I was one of the first outside recruiters that they ever brought into the firm. And I’m there and I’m with a young manager only been a manager for a couple years. And I sent over him like, I got the perfect candidate for you. And they looked at it, and they’re like, terrible resume, like the guy kind of believed in me a little bit about why would I waste the time sending that resume over to him? And I go, did you read the resume? He goes, Yeah, they were an account manager. And that’s not what I’m looking for. I’m looking for an account executive. And I go, I’m gonna ask you again, did you read the resume? And he goes, I didn’t have to it said account manager, I go, here’s what I’m going to do. I said, before I go to your boss, and let them know how you’re treating me, I want you to read that resume again. And then tell me what you think. And he goes, Okay, read the resume, and goes, Wow, this is exactly what we’re looking for. But this says account manager and in our account manager is something different. I go, you need to realize it’s not just your company, and what you call somebody different companies call the same position, something different. And you have to look at that. And I say that because this guy was so blinded by the title, that he wouldn’t read anything else. But if that person, right, and again, this was we were fairly new with working for them, and you know, if you would have, I’m not going to tell them to change or their name your call manager, I would never tell him to change the title on there. But it was the job description is perfect. So if you look at what they’re looking for, right, and it’s just a couple words that are different, you can make those right, make it a little bit more similar. So that matches, I won’t get into my keyword searches. And what I believe about ATS is, but you can make it similar to what they’re looking for.

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Jeff Altman 

I agree, because you have to remember, folks, it’s like as a six year old with ADHD, just looking at the resume. They’ve got a ton of them in their inbox, they’re plowing through. They’re looking for anything that vaguely fits what they’re looking for. and then they prefer not to see ‘vaguely fits.’ They actually want to see real close on the fit. So make it easy for them. The more they have to work, the less likely they are to talk to you. Now, I want you to remember, we’ve got a time limit. So we’re not gonna go into an hour conversation today. So what should we be covering in order to get people prepared for the video fair?

 

Steve Edwards 

You know, so again, you know, know your surroundings. You know, you can practice. we live in a world where you have access to video all the time, right? So practice your video. Practice your 30-second pitch, so that, you know, I used to have my pitch, right? It was ‘Hey, my name is Steve Edwards from Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. You probably never heard of Chippewa Falls unless you had a lot of Google’s beer Titanic, but I left there because it’s way too cold. I went to the army, moved to college for South Florida and now here I am. Right? No, your 30 second opener, right–Who you are, what you do, maybe why somebody should hire you. You know, find that stuff. Right. Also, when you were preparing for this interview, if you know who you’re interviewing with, again, look them up on LinkedIn, social, it’s also so right I won’t get into Facebook and stuff like that to find out more about them. But, you know, look them up on LinkedIn, find a little bit about them. See if there’s common ground. I mean, when I look at a resume, I look for common ground. And so you can have a conversation. Put it down and say, ‘Tell me a little bit about you that’s not on here. I can read this. So do the same thing. Find out, you know, prepare, prepare for your interview, prepare your camera, make sure that everything is working, right, and you’re good to go.

 

Jeff Altman 

And I’ll also remind you, if this is a video interview, rather than a virtual fair, for example, I want you there a minute or two early, so that you’re waiting for them rather than the other way around. When they’re waiting for you. They’re going, she’s gonna show up, you’re gonna show up, because you’re late.

 

Steve Edwards 

Yeah, great. And that’s it, you know, that’s a great point. So I’m not a Teams fan, right? Everybody who works with me knows, you know, sometimes they’ll send me a Team’s meeting just to be funny. But I know if I go teams, I gotta log in at least five minutes early because I have more issues logging in on Teams than I do on so you know, and, you know, knowing the systems, knowing that you’re there, or, or every once in a while, you’ll get a WebEx meeting. And then you’ve got to download something. So you know, know what it is right? Check in the day before, right? If it’s a zoom link, just click on it the day before. Make sure you don’t have a Zoom update, a Microsoft Update, or your computer’s not going to be updating, you know, if you haven’t been on your computer, and you know, a month, and you’re getting ready to go to a Virtual Job Fair, or you know, an online interview, open your computer the day before, make sure there’s no updates. And that, you know, you don’t just try to log in and say, Okay, it’s at three o’clock, I’m gonna log in and, you know, 2:55

 

Jeff Altman 

Surprises for you are never good. All that happens is you start to stress out, perspire, worry. And that’s not the best way to start the conversation. Because folks, I’ll tell you from having interviewed 1000s of people, the first few minutes of every interview, or when people decide whether or not to pay attention, anything else. So you got to be ready, you got to be on your game, and you can’t be stressed when you start off. And by the way, Steve, what else should we cover today that we really should?

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Steve Edwards 

You know, I mean, I think we’ve covered a lot today in getting them ready. Preparing, you know, preparing before, I think, is such a key part to anything. You know, I’ve had people that have researched companies, and realized this isn’t a good fit for me. You know, and they cancel the interview. Don’t no show an interview; it’s pretty rude. But prepare before. Research the company. Know what you’re doing. Don’t ever, ever go into an interview and not have questions. You know, I mean, I look at, you know, I’ll use myself as an example. Granted, I was a lot younger than and I was a little bit, you know, newer on the management side. But I remember one time a person came in, and he was a little older than I was, and he’s like, I should be your boss, right? I know, everything. I don’t need to sell to be a manager. And I was like, right here, ‘there’s a pen. whiteboard behind me. Train me on how to sell this product.’ ‘But I don’t know how to sell the product.’ ‘Oh, how can you train somebody if you don’t know how to sell it? Right? But what that is, is he was too saying, right? He was trying to be cocky and better. Don’t ever do that. Right? You don’t want to be cocky in the interviews, right? If you’re really that good. Say, ‘here are my certificates.’ Like when I go to an interview, right? Again, I would say okay, well, ‘here are my certificates where I was the top rep here.’ Here’s this certificate, here’s this, here’s this award is this, because then they can show them because people can see those. I am very visual. And I like that aspect. And don’t not have questions, right? Somebody else in that same timeframe of me and do you have any questions? Nope. And I’m like, you just wasted 30 minutes of my time. You have no questions. I put my feet up on the desk. I’m like, Oh, we can either sit here you can figure out three questions to ask me or you can leave, right and not get the job. Because if they didn’t prepare, they didn’t care. They just thought ‘oh, I’m gonna come in here and I’m going to be cocky and get the job. And I don’t care what type of person, what type of job it is. If you don’t prepare for me. I have, you know, a lot of people. It’s a big turnoff. So have questions and don’t just have the ‘When do I start? How much do I make?’ Right? Have some thoughtful questions. Show that you actually went to their website. You learned a little bit about their company and talk about it. 

 

Jeff Altman 

And one thing I’ll encourage you folks to do in your preparation is ask yourself, based upon this job description or job ad, if you were them trying to figure out if you are qualified to do this job, what would you ask in order to figure that out? And that’s going to help you really prepare at an even better level to deliver the goods for them? 

 

Steve Edwards 

Why you? Right? Think about that? Why should they take you and I don’t care if it’s flipping fries at McDonald’s? Why should they take you over that other person that’s out there? Why should they take you right with the same credentials, the same type of degree for an accounting position? Why should they take you? And that’s what you need to know, if you can’t tell yourself that, how can you tell a potential employer?

 

Jeff Altman 

Perfect? Steve, this has been great. How can people find out more about you,  Premier showing them the logo, right?

 

Steve Edwards 

Yeah, here we go. There you go. Virtual, you can go to our website premierevirtual.com. That’s there, there’s actually some stuff for job seekers. We’re building an entire new platform right now. So the job seekers can come in, and then get notified of when events are going to be. It’s kind of right in the process. You know, when we originally built our platform, we were a host first platform so that organizations can host their events. But now we’re getting a lot of people that are coming to us and saying ‘hey, we’re a job seeker. While we’re looking you know, and they want us to help them market to get more people into the event. So you know, check out the website from here virtualyy you can put that your job seeker in there. And, you know, as we start marketing it out to other candidates, you can be on the list.

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Steve Edwards 

Beautiful, Steve, thank you. By the way, this is the second time we got to do this interview. Something on my end screwed up.

 

Steve Edwards 

Jeff, you just like talking to me. You know, it’s out here. We’re giving good information to you guys. We have good good chemistry.

 

Jeff Altman 

Yes, we do. And folks, we’ll be back soon with more. I’m Jeff Altman. Visit my website, TheBigGameHunter.us There is a ton in the blog that you can watch, listen to or read that will he,lp you. In addition, you can find that bad my courses which you can rent or buy my books and guides, you can schedule time for a free discovery, call or schedule time for coaching. I want to help you. And if this isn’t the right time just put that address in your phone TheBigGameHunter.us and in the notes field, put the phrase job search blog so you can come back to me on a  later occasion. Lastly, connect with me on Linkedin at linkedin.com/in/TheBigGameHunter. Have a terrific day and, most importantly, be great. Take care.

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