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And thank you all for tuning in to guys council 2.0 this lovely spring morning. It is almost 70 degrees here in Nashville. I saw like my mom talking about the weather, but I'm so excited for warmer weather. I can walk my dog without having to get bundled up and wearing hats and mitts and all that stuff. So very excited for the weather change. Again, thank you Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, for tuning in this morning. Jane was going on a good morning from Denver. I love it. I love it. Good morning from Denver. So we're in talk today about interviewing. A lot of people, a lot of y'all think at interviewing.

It's okay. We're going to unpack and how to get better about it. But before that, want to get some shout outs again. As always, brain is 78 and brain in our way for hanging up on my marketing production direction strategy. We have a lot coming. We're trying to we are hiring interns. If you are looking, I am hiring interns to help with content creation with my team. If you want to be a part of it, I have already placed one of my interns at a job here in Nashville. I don't promise a job, but I will help you try to find one. So if you are interested, I am looking basically for a project coordinator.

I'm looking for a videographic editor. And then also I am looking for a data analyst. So if you're interested in those positions or no someone interested in interning, please connect them to me. They're going to be live. Those persons are going to be live on my website here very soon as well. Also website stuff. Shout out summer, lettington who we got a job for her, but also shot out pooler who's now handling everything. Alex is like, he just does everything. If you check out my website, TaylorDessin.com. I have uploaded my resume favorite resume template. And 10 questions of stuff are recruiting. Let's break those down real quick.

And TaylorDessin.com for TikTok. You can't see my screen. One, I don't guarantee job offers, but I guarantee almost interviews with my resume template. So go check that out to those 10 questions that I'm going to create. Those 10 questions save them. Just send them out to recruiters when they send you a job and see which ones they can answer. They don't have to answer all of them, but they need to answer some of them. Okay. Now let's go ahead and dive in Caleb. Amen for the good one or just bring us a marriage this morning. I'm excited to be with you all this morning because math, he's got a head to an interview in 30 minutes.

I want to go ahead and dive into some interview prep. First off, let's talk about the basics on how to level up your interviewing. One, please interview research the company. Talking so fast this morning, I can't communicate well, the all this morning. Research the company. I can't tell you how many times people go into interviews and don't know the company that they're interviewed for. To me, that is a big red flag. If you don't care enough about interviewing where you take the time to go, hey, you know what? I'm going to interview this. I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to research this company.

If you don't have the time for that, that's a red flag for me. That is a red flag. So make sure math you and I'm single it out math you because he's on his way to an interview. So for those of you who are watching, send your thoughts to Matthew Bell. He's interviewing say 30 minutes. Go math you. So research the company number number two, you need to come with questions. I'm so sick and tired of individuals, of individuals interviewing at companies, not asking questions, taking the job offer and then realize that what they stepped into six months later is disaster and they leave and then they blame it on the company false.

It is your fault. And listen, I get it. You you want to job. Sometimes it's you know, interview and for a job is like buying a car. It's like buying a car. You basically get you have to be at the dealer for that. You know, I'm six hours. You're already pot committed. So you might as well just be like, all right, I'm going to go buy the car now. The, you know, they could often not even a good deal. And you're like, I've been at the back home car dealership for a week. I might as well go and buy the car. Same thing with interviewing, right?

You get so invested. You're like, I've been at this interview thing for a month, two months. I worked however long. And then all of a sudden it's like, you know, the offer comes, you're like, I'm going to take it. Right. But I caution you this Monday morning, April 5th, I can't believe April to ask questions. Right. And when I say ask questions, like, hey, listen, like, why is this position open? You know, is this because someone was fired. If that person was fired, why was that person fired? Right. Was there a person before that person? Who am I working with? Right. I know a few people in my inner circle have taken jobs recently that it not interview with people that they'll be working with and are extremely unhappy with their job.

Always and literally like, you're not going to like hurt anything. Right. Like if you say Mr. Mrs. interviewer, I'm so excited for this offer. Listen, I want to have two more conversations with two other people on your team that I'm going to be working with. That will not hurt you. That will not hurt you at all because you need to do the due diligence. Because let's say you get put on a team, especially remote. Right. I had this conversation, I had this conversation this weekend, last week and last weekend with a CTO in town. We were hanging out outside together at a party. One year old birthday party.

We were hanging out outside. And he goes, Hey, he goes, how is it managing your team remote? I said, man, it's a lot of work. It is a lot of work managing remotely. Right. It is a lot of work interviewing for a remote company. You have to do more. You have to ask more questions. Right. Hey, and listen, here's a crazy thing. Make sure you interview with the people, the individual who you will be directly reporting to now you're probably too. That seems dumb. Of course that person should interview me. No, I've seen that sometimes that person isn't available for meetings. So they what they do interview so they pawn off the interviews to other people on their team.

If other people on team give the go ahead, they go ahead and take on that person. That is not good. You need to make sure you interview with that individual. Also, another thing that you need to do right down your accomplishments. Right. So let's say you're interviewing for a team lead role. Or let's say you're interviewing for a senior back end dot net engineer that they need some heavy Azure experience. Right. They're moving to Azure and you need some durable functions. I don't know what durable functions are. I know it's a thing or functions or whatever. And let's say you have one project in your career where you have worked on durable functions or functions.

Right. So what I would tell you to do if you're interviewing for a role that requires that you need to make sure you have written down or typed up or have your project that you did within functions. Close by. You need to have those things close by because of an interview. Ask you right. I'm going to hey, Matthew and I'm picking you up today man because you are interviewing. Hey, Matthew, you're more. You know, Matthew, tell me about the time you've used Azure functions. And you go, I've used it and they go, okay, wait. Okay, this project, you're go. And then you're and then you and then they go, okay, anything else and you just blank.

Dude, people blank and interviews all the time all the time. And they blank and interviews because they don't come prepared. Not even with some chicken scratch. Listen, I'm not saying right a dagger on book report. I'm just saying write some write some things down. Chicken scratch. Like even as you're walking in your interview, you bet. I don't even talk about this. This is this. So that's things to do. I have a question on six. Sorry. How bad does it look for an applicant to limit the amount of interviews he or she is willing? How bad does it look for an applicant to limit the amount of interviews he or she?

Not quite following if you ask that question a different way. You should never. It doesn't look bad. To ask for more interviews. If you're trying to limit the interviews, I don't know why you would try to limit the amount of interviews. So if you're still watching TikTok user, ask that question again. Not quite following you, but it will never hurt you to ask for more interviews. So hopefully that helps. See, a few other things. Interview prep. So let's talk about so we've talked about research in the company. We've talked about write down accomplishments. Oh, also nothing too. This kind of goes more for phone calls and Skype calls, but also in person, make sure you bring something right down with it.

And also because there are times during the interview, there are times during the interview where you maybe have thought of something, but the interviewer is interviewing you and you don't want to interrupt them or don't interrupt them. Write it down. Write it down. Write that's incredibly, incredibly important. All right, so we got research in the company. We got writing down accomplishments. We got coming prepared with notes. I would say another thing too. And listen, if you all are still watching, we have some viewers right now still. If you are watching and you have some interview tips, send them here so I can highlight you and the interview tips and allow people like Matthew who is heading to an interview.

So he can level up. Another thing to be yourself, right? I'm probably going to end on this right here. Just be yourself because for me, so many people are like, ah, like, do I need to be myself? Or I need to be reserved? Listen, I love this. I heard this the other day. I spoke on a panel for young professionals in Knoxville. First date, first date yourself. First date, in regards to being yourself. Let me, let me rephrase that. Right? So people ask, how comfortable should I be in the interview? How much you are willing to give on a first date? Now, that there is for a lot of people, right?

I get that. But what I'm saying is as a whole, you need to be yourself because why do you want to work for a company that doesn't accept who you are and your true self? Now, again, I'm not saying in there and just be ridiculous and all this stuff. But be your true self, but be respectful. A question coming from TikTok. What would you say are the most important things to look for in a potential employer? Listen, that is a very individual question. User, RFCRJ, that is a very, very individual question. And an answer that you need to ask yourself. Right? For me, I think growth, right?

You want a company that allows you to grow within that company, right? Like, like, you hear other levels, right? We mentor. We give people the opportunity to grow within the company. I think that's incredibly important. I think another thing to mentorship, right? Have the opportunity to be mentored and grow, right? You want to take a job and also learn things. Like, while you take a job for like, in the first year or two, right, you interview for a position in the first year or two, you ideally want to be there for a few years. So why not ask questions that are phrased for the next five years?

Right? Hey, where can this position go to? How am I being mentored? Right? You know, how can you see this real growth? Right? Those are very, very important things to ask during an interview. And also what are most important for the employer? But you need to ask yourself to talk to user. What is the most important to you? Right? Find in your why. I talk about that a lot. Find in your why. Why do you want a new job? Is it manager style your current place is terrible? Is it you you're just chasing money, right? If you're just chasing dollar dollar bills, I get it.

Go chase. Go get that bread, right? Go get it. Right? If it's mentorship, if it's benefits, if it's out of the sap, I mean, whatever whatever it is, you need to find that and figure that out. Few other A&E was going to show your strengths to be examples. Yes, know your story and how you bring the sauce to the equation. A equation. Yeah, bring the sauce, right? Know your background. So many people go into interviews and they're like, tell me about yourself. And they're like, what? They don't know how to communicate. They don't know how to communicate what they've done. So be comfortable. Sit in front of a mirror.

Talk to your significant other. Talk to your dog. Talk to your cat. Talk to the mirror. Talk do something where you get comfortable speaking about your past experiences. Stu what's going on buddy? Thanks for tuning in. Big Gaga's good to see you. So all that being said, listen, that is it. That is it. Thank you all for tuning in this morning to guys. People don't want to keep it short. If you have any questions, throw them up in the chat now. At me, comment me. If you need me, go to my website, fill out a form. Let's chat. Shoot me a text message. I have so many individuals that want to talk to me.

Listen, I cannot talk to everybody. I cannot talk to everybody that I that I can. So the best way to get my advice, great. The best way to get my advice is shoot me a text. 615-235-5650. Again, that 615-235-5650. Shoot me a text. You get one text message to your phone. About practical job tips. So do that. I linked it or TikTok user, where is the best place to look for work from home jobs? I'm having a hard time finding them. Listen, a few things to look at. This is tech. So TikTok user, this is tech-specific. So we have GitHub jobs. Glassdoor, indeed, remote, okay.

We work remotely. Monster, LinkedIn, Stack Overflow jobs, dice, angel code jobs. Hopefully you got that. If you have any more questions, shoot me a note, tailoredvaco.com. Again, that's tailored at VACO.com. Kale and thanks again. Oh, what is it recommended to tire for video-based interviews, particularly for tech company? Listen, I think a college shirt works. I, you know, in my experience, I don't think you suited up a lot anymore. But that's just me. But I think, you know, if you're interviewing for a startup, like you probably don't need to dress up at all. Right? But if you're interviewing for like an enterprise company, maybe throw on, maybe throw on a college shirt and jacket, right?

But, but you need to know, you need to know who, who you're interviewing for. Right? Took talk. Perfect. Thank you. I looked at it indeed, but the others I haven't heard of. Yeah, absolutely. If you need that list, tailoredvaco.com, shoot me an email. And I will send you that list. Again, thank y'all again, so much. Kale and thank you, Gene. Thank you. Feel me and me, shoot me a text. Go to my, go to my website. Check out my resume template, all that. Share, share all this with your friends. And I'll see you tomorrow morning. Looking forward to it. Thanks y'all.