How to Absolutely Crush a Job Interview

Demoted

Demoted Productions

Comedy, Business, Careers

4.8 • 778 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The job search these days feels more impossible than it ever has. No better reason to be ready to crush a job interview when the opportunity arises. In this episode, Corp and Nat share some best practices on how to put your best self forward in a job interview. They also reminisce about their early interview failures, including a particularly spooky story of Ross being given a phone in the middle of a sales interview to do a surprise cold call. You’ll hear a listener-submitted advice request about how to maintain your sales leaderboard positions. Stay tuned for takes on getting a keratin treatment, non-romantic adult sleepovers, and practice pitching in an empty parking structure. Follow the link https://www.chomps.com/demoted to purchase Chomps online or find them at a store near you! Check out the Silly Valley News newsletter at https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/silly-valley-news-7211044838354362368 For the founder dinner story check out the beginning of the Nightmare Bosses: Part 1 episode: https://youtu.be/QtaQewgmmr0

Transcript

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0:00.0	Getting a job has never been harder.
0:02.1	Lociento, but you do not speak basic Spanish.
0:04.6	Fun fact.
0:05.3	Recruters only spend between three and five seconds scanning a resume.
0:09.3	Oh, perfect.
0:09.9	I'm glad I spent a full week sprucing it up.
0:11.8	I'll start with my horror story.
0:13.5	He literally slides his cell phone across the table to me,
0:16.4	and he says, you're going to make a cold call right now.
0:18.6	Wait, so you had to make a cold call in your interview. Yep.
0:30.4	Welcome back to Demoted. We're talking job interviews. We're talking job interviews. Let's just
0:34.9	freak on this thing. I'm going to start with a spooky little job interview story.
0:38.4	This is a ghost hunting pod, right? Yes. Let's do it. Yes. And this is a ghost that is of my past and I've tried to forget about it. But I'm going to bring it up anyway. So I was early in my career. By early in my career, I just graduated college. Young Ross. I was done with baseball. I had baseball. I had no hard skills. And I was like,
0:54.5	I should obviously go into sales. And I interviewed at a company called Demand Force, not to be
1:01.2	confused with Salesforce. Okay. And I go into this little building downtown and I'm in there. And all
1:06.9	of a sudden, this guy takes out his phone, he slides it across the table and he says,
1:11.3	we're going to have you make a cold call.
1:13.3	No.
1:14.1	Dun, dun, dun.
1:15.0	No, no, no, no.
1:16.0	And I was like, what?
1:16.8	And he said, here's the number.
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