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How to ace your Behavioral Interviews - With Martin McGovern from Career Therapy
EP. 2
In this episode, we had a chat with Martin McGovern, the Lead Coach, and Founder of Career Therapy, as well as a Career Coach with The Muse. He has partnered with many educational organizations like Udacity and General Assembly, where he shares his knowledge, experience, and career advice.
You can find Martin live streaming every day on LinkedIn and YouTube, discussing all kinds of topics that are related to the job search.
2:10 - How do Soft Skills help IT professionals? Do you think they’re becoming as important as Technical Skills?
6:20 - Is there a certain area where most of the people seem to have trouble with?
7:48 - What is your story? How did you become interested in Career Coaching?
10:50 - How can you take a job interview rejection and make it feel good?
13:35 - The reason why you are being ghosted after an Interview
16:19 - What is the purpose of behavioral questions and what are the recruiters looking for, in a response?
18:32 - What is the purpose of “Tell me about you” question, and how should it be answered?
23:30 - How should candidates answer the questions about their strengths or weaknesses?
26:55 - The strengths or weaknesses that shouldn’t be talked about in an interview
29:57 - How you can use a personality test to outsource your strengths and weaknesses, in order to respond to the “strengths and weaknesses” questions
31:23 - Is the STAR Method the best way to respond to behavioral questions? How can you use it? (+Examples)
37:45 - Why you should record yourself answering behavioral questions and how can this help you become better in interviews
39:03 - How to answer questions related to a problem you faced, using the STAR Method
42:45 - What should you really keep in mind when practicing for interviews?
44:50 - What pieces of your content should everyone check out? Why?
Resources mentioned in this episode:
1. Martin's Youtube Channel
2. Martin's LinkedIn
3. 1 on 1 Career Coaching Call with Meg Murphy
4. Global Skills Hub's Interview Prep Guide (The Behavioral Questions are on the last page)
Thank you for listening to our show and remember - If you are a Senior Developer looking to relocate to Canada, visit us on Globalskills.io, or shoot us an email at [email protected]
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By Global Skills HubEP. 2
In this episode, we had a chat with Martin McGovern, the Lead Coach, and Founder of Career Therapy, as well as a Career Coach with The Muse. He has partnered with many educational organizations like Udacity and General Assembly, where he shares his knowledge, experience, and career advice.
You can find Martin live streaming every day on LinkedIn and YouTube, discussing all kinds of topics that are related to the job search.
2:10 - How do Soft Skills help IT professionals? Do you think they’re becoming as important as Technical Skills?
6:20 - Is there a certain area where most of the people seem to have trouble with?
7:48 - What is your story? How did you become interested in Career Coaching?
10:50 - How can you take a job interview rejection and make it feel good?
13:35 - The reason why you are being ghosted after an Interview
16:19 - What is the purpose of behavioral questions and what are the recruiters looking for, in a response?
18:32 - What is the purpose of “Tell me about you” question, and how should it be answered?
23:30 - How should candidates answer the questions about their strengths or weaknesses?
26:55 - The strengths or weaknesses that shouldn’t be talked about in an interview
29:57 - How you can use a personality test to outsource your strengths and weaknesses, in order to respond to the “strengths and weaknesses” questions
31:23 - Is the STAR Method the best way to respond to behavioral questions? How can you use it? (+Examples)
37:45 - Why you should record yourself answering behavioral questions and how can this help you become better in interviews
39:03 - How to answer questions related to a problem you faced, using the STAR Method
42:45 - What should you really keep in mind when practicing for interviews?
44:50 - What pieces of your content should everyone check out? Why?
Resources mentioned in this episode:
1. Martin's Youtube Channel
2. Martin's LinkedIn
3. 1 on 1 Career Coaching Call with Meg Murphy
4. Global Skills Hub's Interview Prep Guide (The Behavioral Questions are on the last page)
Thank you for listening to our show and remember - If you are a Senior Developer looking to relocate to Canada, visit us on Globalskills.io, or shoot us an email at [email protected]