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Understanding a Hiring Manager’s Perspective / Getting Hired

With no, or little, experience

When you have little experience, you have to convince a hiring manager to take a chance on you.

Make it an easy decision for the hiring manager. We need to know that you can make it without a lot of guidance.

How do you do that? What do you have to offer? In life, how have you taken leadership in other areas.

I have years of hiring experience and have turned down more people than I care to admit. It’s not because I’m evil or have extremely high expectations.

I look at it like this, if your marketability were a glass - the bottom of the glass should be filled to the minimal knowledge required to do the job, I’ll even accept less.

The rest of the glass is your passion, personality, willingness to take ownership, willingness to learn new things, and a willingness to challenge yourself and others to be better.

With experience

When you have a lot of experience, it still comes down to a lot of your passion, personality, and willingness to grow.

However, a history of accomplishments or growth is required. I’m going to ask you to name something you’re very proud of in your career. I want to see your successes and know you’re independent.

I hire experienced people because they are professionals in their field and the expectation is that they are independent and can move things to completion.

I want you to tell me the story of you, you have experience so my screening won’t rely as heavily on whether I think you’re technically competent.

I want to know your future plans, do you think about your future. How does this position fit into your story.

Do research on the company, ask questions.

I only look at degrees when I believe it adds something that can’t be covered by other areas.