On The Job
FEBRUARY 9, 2015
Here''s a checklist that can help you make that critical good first impression: Clothes should be neatly ironed (front and back). If you can manage it, get a haircut two weeks before an interview, which gives you the best chance of looking well-groomed. Try to only sip water before the interview, which will help keep your breath fresh.
Success
JULY 5, 2021
Eighteen minutes and 17 seconds into DJ Khaled’s Zoom interview with SUCCESS , his voice was briefly drowned out by what sounded like the unmistakable roar of a lion. Was it actually a phone notification plugged into a loudspeaker? It was from the phone line inside his little makeshift studio in his parents’ house. Podcasts. “I
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Success
NOVEMBER 17, 2021
I’ve seen everyone in my family do entrepreneurial things, whether it was reselling clothes they bought in the U.S., Kelly started his own podcast, The Sales Evangelist , and interviewed fellow sellers about what worked and what didn’t, essentially “evangelizing” about the topic. You did what you needed to do to survive.
On The Job
MAY 7, 2009
Dont play with your phone. While you may know enough to mute your phone during an interview, you also cant even look at it. If you carry coffee or a drink with you into an interview, its a distraction and can make you appear too casual. You dont have to have an expensive satchel, but get one that is clean and streamlined.
Success
JULY 6, 2022
Roti, Kapda aur Makaan” (food, clothing and shelter) was the political cry of independent India’s socialism in the 1960s and ’70s (including a Hindi film with the same title). After I interviewed Britney Spears over email—a story that made the cover—I was done. the editor nearly spat into the phone. Learn the what…?”
Success
JULY 28, 2022
Yes, external stuff can help, from clothes to voice to smiles and hand gestures. For weeks, Kelleher failed to compose a persuasive note requesting an interview. At last, “I stopped trying to see my own needs, which were to get an interview with her, and just went with extreme empathy,” she says. But it’s no good by itself.
Success
APRIL 3, 2023
If you had asked me a week before that accident if I was happy, I would’ve said yes,” I told life coach Martha Beck over the phone. “ You’ll outgrow it like your baby clothes, and then you have a choice to either try to contort yourself back into it or to leave.” And everything changed. “If I don’t belong at that job. “And
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