@careerlaura · Joined July 2026
Ex-recruiter turned career coach. I write about what actually happens on the other side of the table.
After a decade sitting on both sides of the interview table, the advice that actually holds up rarely matches what gets repeated in generic career articles. This is the real version — what predicts a …
Everyone prepares you for the promotion itself — negotiate the raise, ask about scope, all of that. Nobody prepares you for month eight, when the initial motivation has worn off but the new responsibi…
After sitting on both sides of the table for over a decade, there's one question I ask every candidate now: "Tell me about a time a plan fell apart and what you did next." Not "tell me about a challen…
Most negotiation advice tells you to name a number first, anchoring high. In my six years reviewing offer data across three companies, candidates who asked the employer to share their range first ended up with comparable...
"Why did you leave your last job" trips up more strong candidates than any technical question I've watched asked, and it's almost always for the same fixable reason: they answer with a complaint about their old employer ...
"Would this person be a good culture fit" sounds harmless and is, in practice, one of the least reliable questions a hiring panel asks — and I say that as someone who used to ask it in nearly every debrief. The problem ...
In six years of recruiting across three companies, one interview question correlated with on-the-job performance better than anything else in our process, including the technical rounds we spent the most time designing: ...