by John G. Self | Oct 5, 2017 | Career Management, Interviewing Skills
Candidates shouldn’t stumble over the most commonly asked questions in an executive interview. When they do, they are either clueless to rising expectations of potential employers or they are determined not to put their best foot forward in a crowded, highly...
by John G. Self | Sep 27, 2017 | Career Management
LISTEN ON iTUNES The consolidation of healthcare continues apace, reports of troubled mergers and questions about the validity of the bigger is better strategy notwithstanding. TODAY, our big idea: The executive job market is tightening as hospital systems and...
by John G. Self | Aug 15, 2017 | Career Management, Interviewing Skills
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” The person who uttered that wise phrase was not a grizzled newspaper editor, but he should have been. Instead, he chose a different career path — the rambunctious and romantic field of theoretical...
by John G. Self | Aug 1, 2017 | Career Management, Interviewing Skills
When I was a young marketing representative fresh off three years of successfully selling and setting up the first 14 hospital emergency helicopter ambulance services in the country, I thought I was hot stuff. I was full of it: you get me in front of people and I...
by John G. Self | Jun 22, 2017 | Interviewing Skills
Embrace your failures. For some career transition coaches, that advice is counterintuitive. They like to use words like pivot – as in when asked about your failures or your weaknesses you pivot to a more positive subject. In a job interview, these coaches say, avoid...
