Excellent Resource for a JMO to Improve Communication and Interviewing Skills

I apologize for the short post this week.  Cameron-Brooks is in full force preparing for our January/February 2010 Career Conference in Austin, TX which kicks off this Friday.  As a result, I am keeping my post short though I hope you find it as useful as previous posts. I love podcasts and I really enjoy podcasts that … Continue reading “Excellent Resource for a JMO to Improve Communication and Interviewing Skills”

The Failure Question

Sticking with the failure theme from earlier this week, I would like to address why recruiters who interview junior military officer (JMO) candidates ask the failure question, and how to respond with a successful answer.  Recruiters ask the failure question for the same reasons I outlined in my previous blog post about the importance of … Continue reading “The Failure Question”

JMO Career Transition Research and Preparation

We are now in the follow-up process from the August Conference. It takes 2 to 5 weeks after the Conference to complete the interviews that will result in companies making decisions about offers. As the August candidates wrap-up their follow-up interviews, we ask them to leave comments on the Discussion Area http://bit.ly/xgUOp where you can … Continue reading “JMO Career Transition Research and Preparation”

Cameron-Brooks August 2009 Career Conference

The August Career Conference in Charlotte, NC is now complete.  Our client companies are leading their way out of this recession by focusing on getting the “right people on the bus” as Jim Collins says in Good to Great.  The result: candidates averaged over 9 interviews each and every candidate achieved success at the Conference.  … Continue reading “Cameron-Brooks August 2009 Career Conference”

Ethics in a JMO Career Search

For the last week of July, I wanted to write a post on ethics – what they are and why they are important.  What seemed to me to be an easy topic to understand became very hard when I began to try to explain.  I reviewed  notes from my Notre Dame Business Ethics class 12 years ago … Continue reading “Ethics in a JMO Career Search”

Receiving Offers and Accepting Employment

How to handle the critical process of receiving and accepting an offer.

How to Ask Quality Questions During an Interview

JMOs who ask quality questions during an interview demonstrate curiosity and intelligence, as well as interest in and knowledge of the position, company and industry.  Asking questions is just as important as answering them in order to have a successful interview, yet some JMO candidates struggle with asking questions that would engage a recruiter and demonstrate strong … Continue reading “How to Ask Quality Questions During an Interview”

Interviewing – How to Deliver Your Best

The article below is from Jeffrey Gitomer’s “Sales Caffeine” Issue 398 that I received Tuesday via e-mail.  I couldn’t find the link to the article on-line so I pasted it here.  I found this extremely relevant for JMO candidates interviewing for business opportunities.  If you follow the Cameron-Brooks blog, you know that we believe preparation … Continue reading “Interviewing – How to Deliver Your Best”

Receiving and Applying Constructive Criticism = Improving

Constructive criticism. Those two words send shivers down my spine.  I don’t like giving it and I am probably worse at receiving it; but I am getting better.  At Cameron-Brooks, we spend a lot of time coaching JMOs on how to answer the question, “How do you give constructive criticism?”  We do not spend much time … Continue reading “Receiving and Applying Constructive Criticism = Improving”

How to deliver interview answers without rambling.

One of the hardest aspects of interviewing  for a JMO to master seems to be in delivering concise, to the point, substantive interview answers.  Unfortunately some JMOs make the mistake of responding with long winded answers that are difficult for a recruiter to follow.  I wonder sometimes if the JMO candidate thinks an answer to an … Continue reading “How to deliver interview answers without rambling.”