Ask The Headhunter: Edition #1,000: Do The Job To Win The Job
Ask The Headhunter, Wednesday, January 15th, 2025
This marks the 1,000th edition of this weekly newsletter, first published September 20, 2002. Over all these years, one idea continues to permeate all of Ask The Headhunter...
"To win a job, do the job in your interview"
Everything else I write about, and everything we discuss in the Q&A and the Comments section, clarifies and expands on this idea. That's why I chose reader John Grace's e-mail about how he won his job by doing the job in his interview...
Nick's Reply
There is nothing easy about doing the job in the interview; nor is there any substitute for it. Your resume won't do it, your LinkedIn profile won't do it, and being able to answer the Top 10 Stupid Interview Questions won't do it.