Congratulations to Pittsburgh Coaches Association member and Past President Chris Posti on the release of her new book, The Shortest Distance Between You and Your New Job. This book is jam-packed with up-to-date and practical advice for job-seeking executives, managers, and professionals. With 20 years of experience, Posti has succinct advice for every step in your
job search, from networking, to preparing a winning resume, to interviewing, to negotiation.
For example, Posti gives examples of behavioral interviewing questions along with advice about how to answer them. A behavioral style interview question sounds like this:
Have you ever worked as part of a team? Tell me about a time when you were on a team and one of the members wasn’t carrying his or her weight. What did you do about it?
Posti recommends preparing for such questions by rehearsing STAR statements. Here’s her explanation:
“STAR Statements are Situations or Tasks you faced sometime in your past, where you took some kind of Action, which led to some kind of Result.”
To prepare for behavioral interviewing questions, get out a tablet and write examples of situations you have faced in your work life, or even in your personal life. Posti says, “These could include situations where you saved the company money, increased productivity, won back a customer, solved a thorny problem, learned to work with an impossible person, created a better way to something, assumed additional responsibilities, or took charge of something no one else wanted to touch.” Having prepared in this way, you’ll be better able to make an impression as you respond to behavioral interviewing questions.
If you or someone you know is involved in a job search, don’t miss this book! It’s a succinct, practical gem.
To learn more, visit Bonnie Budzowski at www.incrediblemessages.com and Chris Posti at www.postiinc.com.
Larry Lewis is the founder and president of Client Builder Sales & Marketing LLC, a company that provides practical, hands-on sales and marketing training to businesses and independent professionals. He has been a sales trainer for the past 15 years and has authored many articles for Dynamic Business, Smart Business News, Master Salesmanship, Sales Jazz and Staff Digest. He recently published his first book entitled Client Builder Selling.
Dr. Michael Forlenza is an Executive Coach and has special training in both mindfulness and coaching. He is the Executive Director of the Professional Coach Certification Program and Associate Dean of the School of Leadership and Professional Advancement at Duquesne University.
