by Trevor Gelder, Corporate Director
Talent Acquisition and Deployment
When considering a job move and looking at salary and benefits packages, are your motivations aligned with the company? What is most important to you? Are you focused on finding a job where you will be challenged and successful or is the primary motivator the size of the base salary? The questions you ask in the interviewing process can often reveal your true motivations.
We hire a number of engineers in the construction industry, and we often utilize spreadsheets to help present information in a manner that will be most comfortable to their eye and sensibilities. In some cases, we have received thoughtful questions and responses focused on the contents of the spreadsheet, but we occasionally receive questions and critique about the format, formulas employed, highlighting presented, and many other tangential items. Is it better to be right or happily employed? Maybe waiting on those critiques until after the new job begins is a better strategy.
Here’s a video that touches on interviewing basics: http://youtu.be/0p_A2P_uvzc