{"id":3195,"date":"2017-03-20T02:46:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T02:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=3195"},"modified":"2017-03-20T02:46:05","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T02:46:05","slug":"dont-spill-your-candy-in-the-lobby-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/dont-spill-your-candy-in-the-lobby-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Spill Your Candy in the Lobby"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over Spring Break, I had an interview for a small business in Harrisburg. It was a fairly standard interview and went pretty well. However, it was evident how much selling yourself is important in the job search. And how some of these sales techniques applied to my interview process. For example, Sandler\u2019s Core Concept #2 is don\u2019t spill your candy in the lobby. This means that you should be patient in presenting your sale so that you don\u2019t show all that you can do and all of your expertise prematurely. During my interview, I was able to highlight some of my strengths\"\"<\/a> right off of the bat through some of his questions. However, at the end, I was startled when he asked me why they should hire me above any other candidates. First of all, it was more forward than I was expecting, which started me off on a bad foot. However, as I tried to answer the question, I found myself repeating several things that I had said earlier. This left me trying to think of new things and trying not to just repeat what I had said before. The answer wasn\u2019t very good. Lolz. However, this was a great lesson to me on the importance of not showing off all of your stuff right away. Don\u2019t be like me. Don\u2019t spill your candy in the lobby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over Spring Break, I had an interview for a small business in Harrisburg. It was a fairly standard interview and went pretty well. However, it was evident how much selling yourself is important in the job search. And how some of these sales techniques applied to my interview process. For example, Sandler\u2019s Core Concept #2 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3197,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3195\/revisions\/3197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}