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in this video we're gonna provide you

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with 10 tips to nail that

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interview in germany hey i'm jen and i'm

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from guatemala

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and i'm ivan and i'm german and together

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we're from simplegermany.com where we

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help expat settle into life in germany

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more

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smoothly and make sure to stick around

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until the end of the video because we

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will provide you some tips on how you

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can actually get an

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interview if you have not gotten one

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already um and again all the links to

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everything we will be talking about will

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be in the description box below so

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exactly check that out yeah

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so first of all who are we to talk about

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interview tips in germany

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two girls and i'm just kidding so in

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this uh

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interview in this interview right in

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this video i will share with you my

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experience

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as a hiring manager in germany um what

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does hiring manager mean

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so i am was not in hr or a personnel

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person

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per se so it wasn't my full-time job my

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full-time job was to

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lead a team and maximize sales for for

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the company

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but of course as in such a position i

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also

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need to make sure that my team is fully

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staffed and i have the the right team

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members right so

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a hiring manager my number one goal next

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to

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sales is in managing is to hire the

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right people

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so at the end of the day you had the

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decision whether you would take that

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person for your team or not

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absolutely okay and i come from the

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perspective that i have been interviewed

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in germany

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from the other side so i've been on the

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other side of the coin

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um as an international in germany right

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i think that's the point

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um so again so uh just to have a little

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bit more of a background story obviously

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the

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work or the job of the cover letter and

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the resume is to get you an interview

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yes

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but it's in the interview where you get

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the job exactly so you need to like nail

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that interview to hopefully nail that

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job

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yeah so let's uh step into tip number

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one

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which is actually research the company

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it is super important that you prepare

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um and research the company and the job

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and the people that

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you are getting interviewed by it's

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nothing worse than

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actually you know not knowing um for

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example in my previous company it's a

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family-owned

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business well it's big big business but

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still family-owned

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and there's one founder and if you as an

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interviewee don't know the name of that

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founder i'm like okay you don't really

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care yeah right

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so this is the number one thing know

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your company

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um know the people that you are getting

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interviewed by like research them on

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linkedin like how long have they been in

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the company like just you know some

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facts

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where you can also gather um some some

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some questions so we'll get to later

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um and also research the company culture

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right like what are you working into

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um especially in germany super important

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how are you going to address

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your interviewees like um is it is the

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culture um

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more more casual and it's actually like

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the do culture right so it's a first

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name basis

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or is it super formal and it you need to

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use z and the last name

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um you might not know

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this from just researching um but you

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have to pay attention when you actually

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meet the person how do they introduce

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themselves right

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yeah to give some actionable tips on how

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you can research the company i would

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suggest to look into the social media of

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the company

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check what they're promoting there how

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they're doing stuff because a lot of the

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projects that are not

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necessarily 100 related to the company

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also tend to be on social media like

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working culture and whatnot

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second thing is that when you get that

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interview um

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interview request or that invitation

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there you would see the names of the

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people that are in the call so copy that

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email those names

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do research as we mentioned on linkedin

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or in any other social media platforms

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where you can find information about

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these people

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for example i was interviewed once by a

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technical manager and i found out about

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her a lot of information because i

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looked on linkedin she had a youtube

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channel

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where she did electronic music she was

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into this whole alternative scene so i

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already knew

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kind of like the vibe of this person and

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i could

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you could build more report by knowing a

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little bit of about that person that's

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gonna interview you

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um also make sure a lot of companies

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have like their own career blogs

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um or like the whole section where you

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can find more information about the

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company

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um i also worked at vodafone for some

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time and there when i was preparing for

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the interview i went down the rabbit

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hole of

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what links can vodafone provide to read

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everything about them and there i

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learned about their social initiatives

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about

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how they treat their employees and i

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learned so much from just digging also

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not only into what you see

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as the skin of the company but digging

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deep like you said into the culture

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yeah for that so that's definitely

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prepare for that

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absolutely yes as much as you can yeah

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number two on our list is

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be on time especially in germany i would

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say

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and on time doesn't mean like like at

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specifically let's say your interview is

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at

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11 30. it doesn't mean that you should

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be there at 11 30.

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it means that it means 10 to 15 minutes

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yes yes definitely and

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um so obviously this is the goal right

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but if you cannot make it on time

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because of

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something that happened out of your your

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control control yeah

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if you're arriving by car and there was

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an accident if the train is delayed i

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mean

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by train just take a train that gets you

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there early early early

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but whatever reason happens it can

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happen

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and no one even germans won't be mad at

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you if you let them know like call

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in and say look i'm delayed i'm so sorry

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about it

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this happened and i'll be probably late

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by this time

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yeah um this goes i would say not just

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for job interviews but general culture

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and if like you you go to a dinner and

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you're late five minutes

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you also tell them you tell them like

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look i'll be late five minutes and jen

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in the beginning was like

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five minutes i'm like yeah but that's

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that's the way to do it that's polite so

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if you're not going to be there

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sitting at a desk ready for the

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interview at the time of the interview

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even if you're one to five minutes later

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you have to let them know as well yeah i

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would say

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um and why do you need to be early so

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for example i've always had the

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experience that when i arrive to a new

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company

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i'm a bit lost of where to go what to

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find out i remember i went to this one

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interview

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and it was such a complicated setup

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because they were like in this kind of

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warehouse kind of looking thing

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wasn't so clear where the company is so

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here i am 10 minutes

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spending time trying to find my way

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luckily i was there like super early

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so imagine it takes you five minutes to

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find the right person to talk to another

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let's say five minutes to check into the

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company

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and then if you spend 10 minutes or five

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or 15 minutes waiting at the couch at

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least you know you're there you know

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like at the waiting not at the couch but

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at the waiting area the reception yeah

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at the reception then you know you're

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there and then if the

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interviewer is late that's a different

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story right but you were there on time

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so again on time doesn't mean on the

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spot be there 10 to 15 minutes before

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right and i had similar experiences that

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i couldn't find the entrance i mean

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you have the house number but you just

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can't find the entrance sometimes in

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these big buildings

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yeah um if you have the interview online

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um also be in the call like if it's zoom

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you can already enter like the

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the waiting room earlier be there

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earlier also if it's skype there is no

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um

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waiting room but just be online because

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you usually see the green online

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and um and then the next question would

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be who initiates the call

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that's a very good question well if it's

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on skype you would receive the call but

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then be attentive to your computer a few

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minutes before i would say five minutes

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is enough if it's google hangouts i've

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had the experience that

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when you go into a google hangouts call

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you think you're going into the call but

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no google hangouts you need to configure

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your settings first make sure that works

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and then you can join the call which you

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can also have a waiting room and

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uh zoom also you have a waiting room so

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if it's a if it's a skype or any other

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software the company initiates the

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company but yeah

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it's important that you're there at

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least five minutes before absolutely um

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to

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to take the call yeah um so number two

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so number three is dress accordingly

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again a dress code is very different in

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every culture yes

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and um especially in germany um there is

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actually a i mean

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a rule that is not really talked about

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um and this goes back to preparing and

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researching

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so part of your research should be the

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culture of the company

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and the dress code of the company like

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jen mentioned look at the social media

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look how

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people you know are dressed um because

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if it's not banking

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where you are expected to wear suits

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right um it could be

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that the culture and the dress code is

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somewhat less

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formal however um

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it's super important that you dress as

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close to the culture as possible because

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if you dress in a suit and it's super

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casual

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you don't match the culture you stiff

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you and and

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and me as an interviewer is like okay

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you can do your research

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and it's i i no matter how the interview

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goes

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i already have this predisposition

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shouldn't have but i have

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that you probably won't match the

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culture right um

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so my golden rule is find out the

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official

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dress code and if it's nowhere to be

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seen or written call the company up

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call the company up they usually always

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have like some reception customer

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service whatever and just say look

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i'll be coming for an interview and i

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want to prepare can you tell me what the

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dress code is yeah and you that first of

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all

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already if it's a smaller company like

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whoa hey who's having an interview with

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this person this person just

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prepared that's already a super like

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ding you know like star

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and second of all you really know what

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what to expect and then

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dress one level on top of that dress a

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little bit

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better than what the dress code is yeah

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i totally agree with that uh

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i had the example that i had an

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interview once at a media agency and

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there

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they are super casual the interview was

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held like in the patio where we were

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having

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a couple of beers actually so there

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obviously if i would have showed up like

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super dressed up

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whoa not blending in if if a guy shows

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up there with a suit already it's like

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you know this is not the right place

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there could be a thing that you're over

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dressed and there could be a thing that

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you're underdressed

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yeah so again uh number four is uh

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to translate your achievements into

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clear benefits yes so in the

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conversation

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um first of all you will have you'll be

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asked questions right

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and most likely you'll get some sort of

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questions the typical question yeah

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about your achievements about you know

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what makes you stand out why are you

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unique

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whatsoever be prepared for that um know

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what sets you apart

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and be able to talk about not just your

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tasks in your previous jobs but

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the achievements of those tasks like the

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translation of it right like explain

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what the benefit for the company was um

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to to really

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uh highlight look this is what i have

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been doing and this is what i'm ready to

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do for you

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and your team or you and your company

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yeah could you give a concrete example

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for example

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uh so since you know like let's talk

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about sales um don't just say

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uh yeah i achieved 300 sales that's

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totally out of context i have no idea

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what that means what the benchmark is

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right

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um also don't just say yeah i increase

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sales by 10

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because 10 you know that that in

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maybe in your setting was amazing

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because before you know the average was

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one percent

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but it could also be not so good because

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before the average or my expectation

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would be at least 30

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increase right so put it into context

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and and and

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like i said give the benefit of the

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company like the 10 sale increase

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um allowed us to um to

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to to get like x amount more customers

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to

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grow the team to expand to another

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country to the benefit

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that lets um that your achievement led

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to

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if you are a developer for example i

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worked in a company where

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we achieved as a team as well i was part

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of this uh kind of like

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achievement no the the core team to

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develop this

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um that we rewrote kind of like the

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whole front end if you are not developer

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sorry a bit technical

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the whole front end for the website and

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this increased

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the the speed of the page meaning it

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decreased the load time

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and if i were to say this okay cool but

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the interesting fact for a non-technical

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person is that by this

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increase of speed or decrease of loading

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time conversion rate increased by 20

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so sales increased yeah so when you give

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this whole context of like you can say

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oh yeah i rewrote the whole

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front-end okay cool but what are the

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benefits of this what did this translate

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as a positive thing to your company

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so every time you sell it like this it

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sounds oh actually then

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your job had a direct correlation to

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increasing the sales which at the end of

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the day is what every company wants

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sales doesn't matter how clean your code

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is or not at the end of the day is how

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much money are we making yeah

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exactly yeah okay so uh what else number

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five on

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our list is like to not talk bad about

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your previous employers

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yes this is for employers yeah this is

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very big in germany um

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because loyalty uh in germany is is is

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very important

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and if you bad mouth or talk badly about

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the previous employer

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i have the impression this could happen

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to my company

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um and i you know this is not how do i

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know that you're going to stick around

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um for more than a year or two and then

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not bad mouth about

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me or your team my team um in the next

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interview right

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so this is a really a no-no um

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you can you will be asked for the

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reasons why you want to change jobs and

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why you want to leave your previous

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employer yeah and you should definitely

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answer those questions

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but for example in my case it was once

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um

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that the job ended up being a lot more

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technical than i anticipated

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so it was really more about my my job

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set per se like what i had to do um than

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than the company right it was more about

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that

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i expected to have more international um

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contact than i actually ended up having

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so it was more that

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my expectation setting that i had for

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for my job

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was different and i don't want to

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continue in this than the company per se

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yeah i think always putting it like is

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your expectation was different

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um that always works for example i also

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worked in a company where i

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really disliked the whole system of how

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they work the whole processes or lack

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thereof

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the chaos of it and i could obviously

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like badmouth them like oh they're super

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crowded no but i put it in the

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perspective of like

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my expectation was to be in a more um in

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a more like process driven company to

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achieve

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goals faster without so much chaos and

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that is not how the company works so i'm

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not a good fit for that

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which is already you know that's not how

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the company works it's already

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borderline i would say

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it has worked just just um think about

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it

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beforehand again preparation preparation

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why do you want to change jobs

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what can you argue um why what you want

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to achieve

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because you have to have a goal to get a

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job right what you want to achieve with

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this new company

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that you could not achieve with the old

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car yeah maybe that's about that should

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be that should be your answer yeah and

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again

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not bad mouthing exactly which could

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happen very easily if you're super

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frustrated at your current job right

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yeah yeah also another well maybe a

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better example in one company that i was

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which i was very frustrated

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um i didn't have any opportunity of

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growth so when i changed companies i

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said

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look i've been wanting to grow for the

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past x amount of time in this company

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unfortunately

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the circumstances has not allowed me to

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do it because also how the company has

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been structured

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um so i'm looking for opportunities of

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growth outside of that company i mean

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that is amazing like i i always look for

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people who have

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again a purpose and a goal and want to

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grow yeah so that with that one you

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would have hired me yeah

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okay number six on our list is to be

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confident

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authentic and engaged yes so maybe this

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is a bit more of a german perspective as

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well

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yes i would agree so obviously um in

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i said obviously again sorry not

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obviously in

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a interview uh in germany it is not a

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one-sided

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um interrogation okay yeah okay it's not

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a one-sided interrogation

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but we want to have a conversation right

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um

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so we want to get to know you um and you

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as an interviewer

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should get to know the company as well

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um

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meaning that in the conversation you

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should be

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your true self authenticity is super

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super important

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um i should be able to to understand who

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you are

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that means you should not oversell

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yourself because then it's very very

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i mean it could happen quite fast that i

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would think wow that is

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that is you're full of yourself you know

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it's like how does that match my team

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right um and if you are not confident

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that would be like whoa

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how is that person supposed to achieve

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our goals so

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um be yourself but be yourself but of

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course

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you need to portray confidence without

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being cocky

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and you need to be authentic without um

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being being being too shy so you just

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need to find the right balance

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that you have an authentic conversation

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and basically build rapport

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yeah i would agree i am a very so i i

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don't know if you have noticed this on

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video but i really enjoy making people

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laugh and smile i think i'm quite quirky

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sometimes and i don't shy

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away from this in an interview if i have

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an opportunity for a joke i take it

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and most often than not i would say i

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have a 95 success rate

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i make the other party laugh because

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this is me having a genuine conversation

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with someone to have laughs

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to be able to talk lightly about

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subjects and not super like strict in

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anything

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and that's my personality and i really

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uh try to

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not obviously over the top do it but do

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it in a way that they

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yeah naturally that they know oh

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actually jen is a fun girl which i

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i am if i would be a serious person

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obviously that would not be i wouldn't

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want to be a fun girl if i'm serious

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because that would not

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you know correlate but at least be true

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to yourself exactly and and don't be shy

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to be who you are i would say

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and don't um don't oversell yourself

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don't tell me how

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awesome you are in all aspects of life

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yeah because no one's perfect and

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obviously we all have our strengths our

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weaknesses right yeah

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totally so that's cool so what else uh

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here oh number seven

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is to know your worth and be ready to

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talk about salary

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so um i mean it always depends a little

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bit

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on which interview it is like because

17:06

usually depending on the company there's

17:08

more than one

17:09

um but whether you talk about it in that

17:12

particular interview or not you need to

17:13

be ready to talk about your salary

17:15

expectation

17:16

i need to know your worth and not in the

17:18

way like so if you're being asked so you

17:20

know what what is your seller

17:21

expectation what you want to earn to be

17:22

like

17:23

well i thought about no i'm sorry um you

17:26

need to again

17:27

be confident and you need to know the

17:30

kind of like market average uh you do

17:32

again goes back to research

17:34

but also you need to know what what do

17:36

you want to get paid to live

17:37

your lifestyle to to feel confident and

17:40

also to stay motivated right

17:41

because there's nothing worse than

17:43

agreeing to an underpaid salary and then

17:45

six months in you're super frustrated

17:47

and it's super hard to get that pay

17:48

raise

17:48

so know what you want know what you can

17:51

ask for

17:52

and do it in a confident way as a hiring

17:54

manager because i've always my

17:55

strategies

17:56

it's always been to give a range of

17:58

salary that would be my next point yeah

17:59

okay would you

18:00

would you uh accept that as a hiring

18:02

manager um to be honest as me because

18:04

obviously i have had interviews right

18:06

right

18:06

and i have done both i've given ranges

18:09

and i've given a drop that one number

18:11

and i went better with a drop that one

18:14

number

18:15

okay and as a hiring manager i prefer to

18:18

drop that one number because again

18:20

it shows me confidence wow okay um and

18:22

it shows me where this person

18:24

really sees themselves and where they

18:26

stand if i give a range especially then

18:28

the question is how big is the range and

18:30

then ask

18:31

why arranged like what is it that you

18:32

want okay so

18:34

oh interesting if you ask me and again

18:36

of course of course there are tons of

18:37

opinions on that topic out there

18:39

i would prefer a drop that answer okay

18:42

maybe again

18:42

it could be also like um like uh like a

18:46

cultural thing right because germans

18:47

prefer a direct answer over a

18:48

wishy-wishy answer

18:50

if you are a hiring manager in germany

18:52

right what do you prefer a range of

18:54

salary or

18:55

a dead number i want this much please

18:57

let us know in the comments below we

18:58

would love to learn and to

18:59

have more uh insights into this topic

19:01

and right discussions yeah that'd be

19:02

super cool okay

19:03

number eight is uh to have questions

19:06

prepared for your interview

19:07

absolutely yes for your interviewer yes

19:10

i would be the interviewee for your

19:11

interviewer yes

19:12

yeah so um 100 you

19:15

need to have questions ready and in

19:17

germany

19:18

it's i mean you might not have that

19:20

brainwash yet because you might not

19:23

have appreciated the perks that that we

19:24

have in our culture

19:26

but when i say questions i mean more

19:28

questions than

19:29

oh and how many vacation guests do i get

19:31

and oh do you pay overtime

19:33

and you know all those things that are a

19:34

little bit selfish maybe

19:37

ideally those things should get answered

19:39

already in

19:40

in like the career page so i don't know

19:42

right okay but not always

19:44

um those questions are important and you

19:45

should definitely ask them because

19:47

you need to know what you're getting

19:48

yourself into but don't make those your

19:50

first questions yeah

19:52

i would say a lot of questions uh

19:53

related to the company or the team that

19:55

you're joining one of my favorite

19:56

questions to ask is what's your biggest

19:57

challenge currently in your team

19:59

what are you struggling with the most uh

20:01

to see if also i

20:02

am a candidate that can help with those

20:04

challenges right um also what is your

20:06

expectation

20:07

for me like exactly what is my goal here

20:10

in let's say the first year yeah so

20:11

basically

20:12

questions that uh show the interview

20:15

were

20:15

that you are really interested um that

20:18

you're interested in

20:19

in in your job the prospective job

20:22

interested

20:23

in the company and the company's goal um

20:25

but also interested in the manager like

20:27

if this

20:28

is if i'm it's different for hr and the

20:30

hiring manager right but if i would be

20:31

your hiring manager

20:32

show me that you are interested in my

20:34

leading style like how what do you

20:36

expect what is my expectation of you

20:38

like and what

20:39

what do you what can you expect of me as

20:41

your manager

20:42

right um so really show your interest

20:45

and your depth

20:46

because if you don't have questions i'm

20:49

sorry i'm out i'm not interested in in

20:51

you

20:51

because you clearly only want a job to

20:54

get a paycheck

20:55

and you don't want to to grow this

20:56

company yeah so that's super interesting

20:58

yeah wow i'm like talking very tough

21:00

yeah very hoo yeah i feel like we're in

21:02

an interview with you here yeah

21:05

so let's see okay number nine on our

21:06

list uh so i would say this one

21:08

okay number nine still i would consider

21:10

that i've done it too is to discuss

21:12

next steps so do not leave that

21:14

interview

21:15

without knowing what's going to happen

21:16

next and i would say not all hiring

21:19

managers or not every person that's

21:20

interviewing is so good at giving you

21:22

what the next steps are

21:23

so it's super important to ask okay what

21:25

goes what happens

21:27

afterwards um so i also worked in a

21:29

company where there was actually like

21:30

six interviews

21:32

um but i knew from the beginning there

21:33

were six interviews because i asked okay

21:35

what are the next steps that are gonna

21:36

happen right like if i pass the next

21:38

round

21:38

is there another round is there another

21:39

round after this or you know like what

21:41

happened so have a full overview okay um

21:44

i need to pass six interviews to to to

21:46

even

21:47

have the consideration of getting the

21:49

offer or not i mean it's good for you to

21:51

go

21:51

good to know like what you're getting

21:54

into again expectations right but also

21:56

for me

21:56

um it shows me that you're interested in

21:59

continuing in continuing and also like

22:02

the proceeds right

22:03

so and the hiring manager should be able

22:06

to tell you that and

22:07

at the end of the day like what i said

22:08

earlier um

22:10

a interview is a conversation and

22:14

as much as i as an interviewer want to

22:16

get to know you

22:17

and know whether you're the perfect

22:18

match for my team you

22:20

should take that chance to get to know

22:22

the company whether it lives up to

22:24

you know the courier page and whatever

22:26

because at the end of the day a company

22:28

markets itself right of course

22:29

and you as an employee you need to make

22:31

sure that this is the company

22:33

and the manager even more important you

22:36

want to work for

22:38

so you need to ask those questions that

22:40

get you that answer

22:41

yeah i agree so definitely do not leave

22:43

that interview without the

22:44

what are the next the next steps exactly

22:46

to also know you know is this going to

22:48

take a week two weeks

22:49

um possible next steps in germany is

22:52

another interview

22:54

yes a technical interview if it's a

22:55

technical job

22:57

but also for example a trial day like

22:59

trial work to to see to

23:01

see you in action because you can talk

23:02

much but i want to see you how you

23:03

actually

23:04

how quick you are to think how fast you

23:07

are to learn

23:08

how you behave with the team um all of

23:10

those things uh that can happen yeah

23:12

yeah

23:12

i yeah i agree i would say from the

23:15

multiple jobs so let's say i've been

23:16

employed

23:17

i don't know let's say five jobs i

23:18

cannot okay wait let's say which is very

23:21

atypical because again loyalty in

23:22

germany is big and it's it's quite

23:24

normal that you spend several several

23:27

years more than one or two in a company

23:29

yeah but as a developer it's so nice to

23:31

find a new project

23:33

anyways but long story short i've been

23:35

maybe employed by five different

23:36

companies

23:37

and out of those i've never had a trial

23:39

day um

23:40

in any of these companies my point being

23:43

that um

23:43

some companies might offer child aid

23:45

some might not but there was one company

23:47

that i worked for

23:48

who the general um the general process

23:51

did not include a trial date but a one

23:52

guy the

23:53

guy asked i want to have a trial day and

23:55

they they gave him a trial date because

23:57

also the guy wanted to figure out

23:58

is this a company for me i want to see

24:00

what a day looks like in in in you know

24:02

the day-to-day life so just because

24:04

there is no trial date does not mean

24:05

that you cannot get a child you can ask

24:07

for what you need to answer to yourself

24:09

is this the company work with okay um i

24:11

would like to correct

24:12

actually i've worked for jobs in germany

24:15

okay so four jobs more like eight nine

24:17

years that's like average of two

24:19

something that's still okay

24:21

ish yeah well you know no but

24:25

also don't get me wrong like no don't

24:26

think oh my god i have to stay there

24:27

like five years no

24:28

no so generally speaking everyone can

24:32

find a company that they might

24:34

not be happy with and then change but if

24:36

you change like every five companies

24:38

every year

24:40

that is not so that that in germany that

24:42

is not that's frowned upon

24:44

yeah i would say but if you stay an

24:45

average of two years that's okay i'll

24:47

say two years or more is

24:48

is okay as long as you can always um

24:50

argue it until tell why yeah yeah

24:52

yeah okay so number 10 on our list which

24:55

i

24:55

have not really done in all my

24:58

interviews actually

24:59

but is to actually follow up after the

25:01

interview correct yeah and i think it's

25:03

um it's super important because so

25:05

there's two aspects of it

25:07

one um an interview there

25:10

the goal of an interview for you to get

25:11

the job so you need to

25:13

provide information i need to convince

25:16

the interviewees

25:17

uh sorry the interviewers that that you

25:19

are the best person to do this job and

25:20

to get

25:21

the team the company to the goal so you

25:24

need to stand out and you need to stay

25:25

top of mind because most likely there

25:27

will be

25:28

several other candidates right that will

25:30

be interviewed yeah and

25:31

several other candidates it's easy to

25:33

like oh how was this again

25:35

but if you send a follow-up email it's

25:38

one more step to stay

25:39

on top of mind because you can send the

25:41

follow-up email a few hours later

25:42

depending on what time the interview was

25:44

or the next day um and what what should

25:46

you send there

25:47

thank them for the time and and the

25:50

conversation

25:51

um maybe you relate to something that

25:53

stuck with you

25:54

in the interview that really made you

25:55

ponder that you really related with

25:57

and point that out um point that out

26:00

as a reason as why you really you are

26:03

convinced even more than before that

26:04

you are the right person for the job and

26:06

you really see yourself and identify

26:08

with the culture and the company

26:09

whatever

26:10

you're convincing me here yes yes yes

26:12

obviously if you want the job right yeah

26:14

um and for the interviewer i'm like ah

26:17

okay this person is really invested this

26:19

person is dedicated and they really

26:21

they they go the extra mile and they're

26:22

super motivated to work exactly for this

26:24

company

26:24

exactly yeah okay um on the other hand

26:27

like when i interviewed

26:28

um i asked my candidate to send me a

26:31

follow-up email

26:32

or a call whatever i also had that i was

26:35

when i actually was interviewed i

26:36

i was asked to give a call the next day

26:38

oh okay um because my

26:40

uh the the manager that said you know i

26:41

don't believe in rash decisions i

26:43

always have the 24-hour rule so if in 24

26:46

hours you still want the job then give

26:47

me a call

26:48

wow so there are different tactics

26:50

behind this but i also asked for like an

26:52

email

26:52

um to exactly that to see is the person

26:56

serious um

26:57

do they remember that i asked them to

26:58

follow up and

27:00

and and what do they say and also when i

27:02

did this i sometimes got the answer like

27:04

hey thank you for your time

27:05

it was what you told me what what i got

27:07

to see of the company and really i

27:08

really really liked it

27:09

but i also noticed that this and this

27:11

and this and this is why i won't

27:14

want to pursue this further and this is

27:15

the best thing that can happen to an

27:17

interviewer because

27:18

imagine you continue interviewing a

27:20

person that is not really fully

27:21

committed anymore it's just a waste of

27:22

time

27:23

yeah um so i want to know is the person

27:25

invested and does the person really want

27:27

the job

27:28

yeah super interesting okay you

27:29

convinced me then everyone follow up

27:31

after your interviews super important

27:34

okay and we have a plus tip as number

27:36

11. exactly and that is what language

27:38

should

27:39

you actually um do the interview in this

27:41

is uh one of the

27:43

questions i think that we get asked most

27:44

or that gets asked most by foreigners

27:46

that want to work in germany right

27:48

right and i would say go back to the

27:51

the number one or two the authenticity

27:53

um authenticity

27:55

authenticity um it depends really on

27:58

also the job

27:59

you're applying for what language it is

28:00

right if you're applying for a job in

28:02

english spanish

28:03

french or any other language any other

28:05

language chances are that that interview

28:07

will also

28:08

be at least parts in that language right

28:11

in my

28:11

my when i was hiring like the the

28:13

company language in in the office was

28:15

german but the copy language worldwide

28:17

was english

28:17

so i always tested the english of the

28:19

person as well because it was super

28:21

important

28:22

um that doesn't mean i don't know if you

28:25

just saw the fly

28:28

that doesn't mean that if your the

28:30

interview is in english or spanish

28:31

that you should not learn or speak or

28:34

try to speak german

28:36

it goes it says so much that if you make

28:38

the effort of even just throwing in a

28:40

few words if you're a funny person like

28:42

jen like you know throw a joke in

28:44

or or just make the effort in the

28:45

beginning like hello couldn't talk

28:47

and feel good um

28:51

just the small things and that show

28:55

again you're interested you're making

28:56

the effort you're willing to learn

28:58

also saying that germany is not just a

29:00

one-year stopover for you right

29:03

um and you're just eager to to adapt to

29:05

your new

29:06

culture in life yeah i would say though

29:08

not your one-year stop i think it

29:09

depends on the job because if it's a

29:11

temporary job well of course

29:13

however like in my four interview well

29:16

i've had more than four interviews but

29:17

in the interviews

29:18

um so when i first arrived to germany my

29:20

german was like very basic obviously and

29:22

that the whole interview and everything

29:23

was in english and the company language

29:25

was in english

29:26

so that was okayish then i joined a

29:29

company whose company language was

29:31

in german but the department the dev

29:33

department which by the way the dev

29:34

department was another dev and

29:36

i uh our language is english because

29:38

also the

29:39

the the guy was from uh the uk

29:43

british so that was a lot easier to

29:44

communicate in english even though the

29:46

company language was in german and our

29:47

interview was in english

29:49

and then i joined this very big german

29:51

company right and there i had the

29:53

hiring manager plus his manager and his

29:55

manager all in one

29:56

room interviewing and they're all german

29:59

and that interview wasn't the english

30:00

because the whole company's language was

30:02

100 german but this one department's

30:04

language was in english because of the

30:06

of the tech um the tech and like the it

30:09

was at the digital department and

30:11

they need a lot of tech people and as we

30:12

know there's a high demand for tech

30:14

people and a lot of them are

30:15

multinational people so that changes a

30:17

little bit the

30:18

now we need to communicate in english

30:19

and gives you the chance of getting a

30:20

job here

30:21

yeah exactly um so there the

30:24

the interview was in english actually

30:27

and there you know

30:28

uh i cracked some jokes like you said in

30:30

german um i tried my best to show that i

30:32

can speak some german i'm willing to to

30:34

learn more german

30:36

however i was very honest and saying

30:37

look these technical things i will not

30:39

be able to answer your

30:40

questions to the best of my ability in

30:42

german so i'm going to have to speak in

30:43

english and they were all accepting so

30:44

against be

30:45

be honest and authentic with your skills

30:47

and what you can and cannot do

30:49

i think that also goes a long way to to

30:51

realize no i cannot answer this or i did

30:53

not understand can you repeat it again

30:54

in english please

30:55

and that was fine and i got that job by

30:57

the way definitely

30:58

but if you make no effort of speaking

31:00

generally oh that is also not a good

31:02

example

31:02

yeah yeah at least make an effort i

31:04

think that goes a long way so now it's

31:05

promised to our hot tip if you have not

31:07

gotten an interview yet in germany we

31:10

have um

31:11

actually a few uh resources for you we

31:13

have a video and an article about how

31:15

you can prepare your cv

31:16

cv in germany works a little bit

31:18

different than in other parts of the

31:19

world so you can check that video here

31:21

or the article is linked in the

31:23

description box below

31:24

we also have another article talking

31:26

about the cover letter and how you

31:28

should prepare for that as well as well

31:29

as a template that you can download and

31:31

you can use

31:32

um so like we mentioned at the beginning

31:34

the cover letter and the cv

31:36

are the ones that are going to get you

31:37

the interview but it's the interview the

31:39

ones that are going to get you the job

31:41

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