Expectations regarding salary benefits and promotion:
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Are you seeking employment in a company of a certain size..why?
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Are you willing to relocate?
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Do you have a geographic preference...why?
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Are you willing to travel for the job?
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How would you describe yourself?
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What do you consider to be your greatest strengths and weaknesses?
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What motivates you to go the extra mile on a project or job?
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Do you have any hobbies? What do you do in your spare time?
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What's the most recent book you've read?
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Why did you choose this career?
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Describe the best job you've ever had.
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How do you plan to achieve your career goals?
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What are your long range and short-range goals and objectives?
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What are the most important rewards you expect in your career?
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Describe the best supervisor you've ever had.
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How well do you work with people? Do you prefer working alone or in teams?
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How would you evaluate your ability to deal with conflict?
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Have you ever been fired or forced to resign?
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What would your last boss say about your work performance?
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Why did you leave your last job?
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Under what circumstances did you leave your last job?
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Can you explain the gap in your recent employment history?
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How do you determine or evaluate success?
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Personal information:
birth: 7-2-59, height: 6' 1", weight: 225
Education:
BA Colorado State University
Expectations regarding salary benefits and promotion:
I seek a job in management or technical position, with salary expectations based on position and
cost-of-living. In consideration of my experience and past salary an entry range between 60–75
thousand per-year and benefits with initial review after 6 months and then yearly thereafter.
Are you seeking employment in a company of a certain size...why?
I am open to work for any size company but am accustom to small to mid-size businesses experiencing
growth and changing needs that calls for creative thinking. I want to be in a stable environment with
low employee turnover and long-term management.
Are you willing to relocate?
Yes
Do you have a geographic preference...why?
Geographically I prefer to live in the west or a large city.
Are you willing to travel for the job?
Traveling isn't an obstacle.
How would you describe yourself?
A person willing to accept challenge and capable of exceeding it, a problem solver.
What do you consider to be your greatest strengths and weaknesses?
Strength: single-minded, goal orientated, obsessive over detail
Weakness: see strength
What motivates you to go the extra mile
Seeing results, achieving milestones, having completion, and the anticipation of
starting something new.
Do you have any hobbies? What do you do in your spare time?
I read books and periodicals. I love "Vanity Fair." I play tennis, ride a bike and most days spend between
1-3 hours at the health club. I look forward to Fridays when movies premier and going out to dinner.
What’s the most recent book you’ve read?
"Panzer Leader" by General Heinz Guderian, "A Rumor of War" by Philip Caputo, " The DaVinci Code" by Dan Brown
Why did you choose this career?
The career chose me. I worked in construction before and after college then learned to use a computer
so I wouldn't have to swing a hammer every day.
Describe the best job you've ever had.
I can't name one job that was best. There are parts of every job that I like and parts of every
job I dislike. I most like my work when I am accomplishing something like: doing something new, gaining skills,
making something, or helping someone. I dislike repetitive tasks, making mistakes, and doing things
twice.
How do you plan to achieve your career goals?
I don't look at life in terms of a career. There are those who have a calling, someone who wants to be
a doctor like my sister, but otherwise I don't know too many people who know what they want. It is how
to manage your life and what's important to you.
What are your long range and short-range goals and objectives?
Both in the short and in the long term I want a job that challenges me, involves constant learning,
and to work with others that have the same objective.
What are the most important rewards you expect in your career?
I don't expect reward. I expect fair treatment and compensation, and maybe one day, long after I'm gone,
someone tearing something apart that I built find my name scribbled inside and have him or her wonder
who I was and how I lived.
Describe the best supervisor you've ever had.
He wasn't a supervisor; he was my graphic arts teacher. He didn't teach by telling me what to do; he taught
me how to think and figure out on my own how to solve a problem.
How well do you work with people? Do you prefer working alone or in teams?
I can work equally well by myself, within a team, or as a leader, although my belief is no one really
works alone. We all rely on someone or something.
How would you evaluate your ability to deal with conflict?
Absent of emotion and faith, conflict generally boils down to perspective and how that affects
a solution. A problem solver would try to look at it from both sides of the dilemma
to find commonality or third way out. Outside of that, there is the use of authority, ignoring the problem,
or deciding that the conflict can't be resolved and it best to part ways. I have been a party to each
these solutions.
What would your last boss say about your work performance?
Completes job without fail, willing to put in 110%, an asset and agent of change.
Why did you leave your last job?
I had been hired for my position just after the business was sold. The previous owner, who
agreed to stay on under contract for two years to manage the business and the new owner hired me.
When the transition to new management occurred two years later, I having already been uncomfortable with
the new owner declined to stay on after the change in management.
Under what circumstances did you leave your last job?
I gave notice of termination and stayed on for 3 months while my replacement was found and trained.
Can you explain the gap in your recent employment history?
I haven't been looking for work. I was in Europe for 6 months and my father has been sick.
How do you determine or evaluate success?
Did you learn something, did you accomplish your task, did you make some money, most of all, do you
have any regrets?
