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Using Head Fake Questions To Achieve Your Career Goals - Commoncog

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Imagine that you have a job interview coming up for a startup. Unlike interviewing for larger, more prominent companies, the vast majority of startups aren’t very famous, and you’re not likely to know anyone working in that particular company. So how do you figure out if working at this startup will fit into your career goals? The quick and dirty answer is that it’s very difficult to tell — pretty much any job interview is a highly compressed process that leaves out valuable information you’ll need in order to answer that question. But it turns out that there’s a related question that’s easier to answer, that’s nearly as useful as our first question above. The question is this: “how do you disqualify bad companies that won’t help you towards your career goals?” This question is easier to answer because you are much better at identifying specific bad traits that you may then test for. If a company you’re interviewing with fails your set of tests, then you may quickly disqualify that com

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