Posted on Aug 27, 2014
COL Jonas Vogelhut
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Had an interesting 40 minute phone interview today. It was clear from the start that I was talking to a recruiter. Nice person, but little knowledge of me, my resume, or my career. Could have frustrated me. She started the conversation on the attack…..lots of people applied for this job, the phone interviews will down select to in person interviews, etc. She asked salary up front….asking me if I would take 10% less that I am making now. Rather than say yes or no, I just stated that we can leave salary to the final negotiations. She made it clear that I would have to turn in my terminal leave to start immediately …. that I could not be on terminal leave when hired. Yuk. Some of the interview questions were not realistic for me to answer….I would have had to have been in industry to have the experiences. Nevertheless, I tried to relate my experiences to the job. I used the job announcement in my answers, which might help. She typed while I talked.

So my question for discussion – how do you deal with recruiters who have limited/no knowledge of the military, for a military related (defense contractor) job? (Assuming the real people you will work for will have a thorough knowledge of the department of defense?)
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LTC Paul Labrador
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Sir, was she really interested in hiring you....?
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COL Roxanne Arndt
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I'm not sure I would want to work for that company based on the initial impression!
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