Dressing inappropriately and badmouthing former employers are well-known job interview no-nos. But many of us are still committing these basic mistakes – along with much more bizarre ones. Like hugging the interviewer.According to a recent CareerBuilder survey of 2,482 hiring managers, the rebounding economy may be to blame.
“The good news is that the number of open jobs continues to improve month over month,” said Rosemary Haefner, a vice president at CareerBuilder. “However, competition will remain high for some time to come.”
And with high competition comes high pressure, which may be causing these costly job interviewing-mistakes. The most outrageous ones reported by hiring managers were…
1. Provided a detailed listing of how previous employer made them mad.
2. Hugged hiring manager at the end of the interview.
3. Ate all the candy from the candy bowl while trying to answer questions.
4. Constantly bad mouthed spouse.
5. Blew her nose and lined up the used tissues on the table in front of her.
6. Brought a copy of their college diploma that had obviously been white-outed and their name added.
7. Wore a hat that said “take this job and shove it.”
8. Talked about how an affair cost him a previous job.
9. Threw his beer can in the outside trashcan before coming into the reception office.
10. Had a friend come in and ask “HOW MUCH LONGER?”
1. Answering a cell phone or texting during the interview – reported by 71 percent of hiring managers
2. Dressing inappropriately – 69 percent
3. Appearing disinterested – 69 percent
4. Appearing arrogant – 66 percent
5. Speaking negatively about a current or previous employer – 63 percent
6. Chewing gum – 59 percent
7. Not providing specific answers – 35 percent
8. Not asking good questions – 32 percent
Haefner offers the following tips for successful interviews in a competitive job market:
Prepare, prepare, prepare: “Before the interview, research the company by looking at the press room for recent announcements, the About Us section for company culture, and the list of products so you are familiar with their offerings. Having this knowledge will allow you to easily answer and ask questions during the interview.”
Keep it professional, not personal: “Don’t let business decorum disappear even if the interview is in a casual setting. Refrain from discussing over-the-top personal issues and focus on the position and selling yourself.”
Practice does make perfect: Nerves are likely to rear their head in an interview, so help calm them ahead of time by practicing. Go through common interview questions with a friend or family member and practice in front of a mirror so you can see your body language.
Honesty is the best policy: “If questions come up that you don’t know how to answer, don’t lie or pretend you know. Admit that you may not know the answer, but then explain how you would go about finding a solution, proving your resourcefulness.”
“The goal of any interview is to stand out from the other candidates and ultimately land the job,” Haefner says,” but make sure you stand out for the right reasons.”
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Before we dive in, many of these tips will apply to all iPads with iOS 9 while other features are limited to iPad mini 4 (7.9″), iPad Air 2 (9.7″), and iPad Pro (12.9″). If you’re comfortable with the bigger display of the Pro, however, it is able to present the most amount of content at once when multitasking.
Split View is where iPad Pro really shines, and Picture in Picture works on top here too. This feature lets you run two apps side by side, and some apps actually look better as columns rather than full width apps on the big screen (like Twitter for example). You likely won’t activate Split View by accident though because the mode is hidden behind a screen gesture.
There’s also a grab bar at the top of the secondary app on the right that lets you switch to other Split View apps. If you click the Home button and open another app that supports Split View, you’ll notice the app one the right remains.
Several readers have asked about the lack of 3D Touch or Force Touch on the iPad Pro, especially one shortcut on the iPhone 6s in particular. Using the latest iPhones, you can press firmly over the keyboard to enter a trackpad-like mode for text selection and moving the cursor. This actually came to all iPads with iOS 9 in September and works extremely well on the iPad Pro, but it’s not super obvious until you learn it. Apple offers this set of instructions:
While using the new iPad Pro on-screen keyboard, you may also encounter an annoying shift bug when trying to access the symbols above the new half-height num row. Basically holding the shift key and tapping a number key to access the above characters only works in search fields and mid-sentence where auto-capitalization isn’t activated. There’s a workaround for now, and using it has made me much more efficient at typing on the iPad Pro.
The iPad Pro doesn’t change the overall layout of the larger Home screen — instead keeping the same 5×4 grid as the iPad mini and iPad Air and revealing more wallpaper. If you’re like me and using the iPad Pro primarily in landscape orientation for the first time, you may want to throw one or two extra apps or folders on your dock. Smaller iPads can also add up to 6 icons to the dock, but I’ve always keep just 4 to match the portrait layout. Portrait is secondary to me on iPad Pro, however, so I’m using 5 apps in the dock now to match the landscape layout.
And if you’re planning on replacing a laptop with the iPad Pro, knowing about Safari’s ability to upload various types of files will likely be very useful. Apps tend to be able to do more than websites on iPhones and iPads, but if you prefer to use Facebook’s website until they update their iPad Pro app to support the full screen resolution, you can still upload photos directly from your iPad just like from a MacBook. This actually works better than through the app in my experience as it uses the updated Photos picker.
Uploading isn’t limited to just photos and certainly not limited to Facebook. The same process works with more complicated websites like Dropbox using text files and PDFs, although other file types like Pages documents and Pixelmator projects weren’t supported. You can actually upload files from Dropbox through the iOS app to Dropbox on the web with Safari using this process, or access your photo library, iCloud Drive, or other supported services.
Have any other iPad Pro user tips to fully unlock the potential of the larger tablet? Please let us know in the comments below!
