Which of the following physical symptoms can be a sign that you're overstressed?Ħ. Emotional stress is the primary cause of stomach ulcers.ĥ. Studies have found that long-lasting emotional stress makes people vulnerable to all of the following conditions EXCEPT what?Ĥ. Which of these forms of stress can weaken the immune system?ģ.
A little stress can actually be good for you.Ģ. How much do you know about stress and your health? Take this short quiz to find out.ġ. Modern annoyances aren't especially dangerous, but stress can be. Whenever we're stressed, our bodies and minds go on alert, a remnant of the bygone days of our distant ancestors, when our problems tended to take the form of saber-toothed tigers and woolly mammoths. Any major change in our lives - from the loss of a loved one to the arrival of a new baby - can also cause stress. Whether we're stuck in a dead-end job or merely stuck in traffic, we all face aggravation from time to time. Remember that not every hiring manager deserves your talents.Stress happens, no matter how much we might try to avoid it. Not everybody will love your frame-shifting answer to the question "What do you bring to the table?" and so what? If someone is freaked out by your audacity in answering any interview question in a non-standard way, you'd hate working for them in any case. If there's no pain, then you're not interested in the job anyway!
That's nonsense!īring the conversation back to the pain. Sometimes managers and recruiters get fearful and try to pretend that they hold all the cards. If they didn't have pain, they wouldn't waste two seconds interviewing you or anyone else. Adults don't ask other adults to do things like that.ĭon't let an interviewer make you beg for the job! You have no reason to suck up to anyone or run down a list of your best qualities. Is that close?Īlex: What have you tried so far, to solve that problem? It sounds like you're doing some great things in Marketing, but they aren't bringing in sales leads at the volume you expected. That is the biggest issue.Īlex: Okay, good. Was I in the ballpark suggesting that the integration of your marketing with your sales process is among the largest hurdles you're looking to surmount this year? Pete, a Manager: So Alex, what do you bring to the table?Īlex (breathing slowly and deeply to calm the vomit reaction) That's a great question. I think I understand your business situation but you are the one living with the issues you're facing. With your frame-shifting answer to the lame interview question "What do you bring to the table?" you'll be sure to find out, one way or the other! Still, if you can stifle your nausea long enough to answer the question a different way, you might find out that the hiring manager is not a pompous idiot after all, but only someone who hasn't questioned or departed from the traditional interview script in a while. There is no table, and the question "What do you bring to the table?" is nearly idiotic enough to get a self-respecting job applicant off his or her tush and out the door. If you go on a job interview and you hear the question "What do you bring to the party?" I forgive you if you say "The table? Are you having a party? I'll bring my famous spinach dip in a bread bowl and my Hank Williams the First records! Can I bring a few friends, too?"
Do you like to beg? I sure don't! Most people with healthy self-esteem won't do it - and who can blame them? If your company still interviews candidate out of the frame "Sell me on yourself!" you are driving away the very best people. There isn't one designated fawner and beggar and one designated chooser. Everybody is vetting the other party, too. I wouldn't blame you if you heard this question on your next job interview and answered it with "A lot of things, but why don't you go first - what can your company do for my career?"Įverybody is selling on a job interview - not just the job-seeker. What can a job-seeker possibly say in response to this insulting question? It's a classic "Grovel, Knave" query, straight out of the hidebound and talent-repelling traditional interview script.