The Best Candidate Wins: Interview to Job Negotiation Strategies

The Best Candidate Wins is suited for postdoctoral fellows who are seeking to further their careers in business or industry. The principles and practices can also be applied to academia. 

The Best Candidate Wins is a highly experiential four-hour workshop that will build your confidence and help you to:

• Strategize on ways to get your foot in the door and deliver your pitch or get an interview
• Practice pitching the value you provide to a potential “employer” in a telephone screening call and informal in-person setting;
• Prepare for and successfully respond to questions in a simulated interview; and
• Negotiate your compensation package once you are offered the position.

Program Prerequisites:

You will be expected to complete approximately 1.5 hrs of pre-work which consists of viewing videos, pre-reading and a short quiz. Please ensure you prepare and bring with you a current resume, brief bio and a sample career advert. Please also bring along your mobile device for recording your own interviews.  

 

The session objectives are to:

• Help you get your foot in the door;
• Equip you to clearly and persuasively pitch what you do and the value you bring in 60 seconds;
• Build your confidence in articulating your core value and professional expertise in a telephone interview – you will record your ‘interviews’ on your own mobile device;
• Prepare you for an interview and build awareness of power differentials and pitfalls;
• Build your confidence in responding to difficult interview questions;
• Provide a continuum of realistic expectations for negotiating your package if you are hired to fill a position in business or academia;
• Enable you to successfully negotiate your compensation package;
• Help you assimilate the information, strategies and skills you need so you can be the best candidate and get hired for the position;
• Provide practical tools and transferable concepts that you can use immediately after the program and for the rest of your career

Templates and tools:

At the end of the workshop participants will receive a copy of the most useful tools, templates and links to the resources referred to in the pre-work and the workshop. 

Registration:

Registration is required, please register online. Successful registrants will receive a confirmation email from the PDFO prior to the workshop. This confirmation will include the prerequisite materials.

** Please note, as this is a half-day session lunch will not be provided however light refreshment will be served **

About the Facilitator:

Dene Rossouw is co-founder of AuthenticDialogue.com and TheIdeasEngine.com in Vancouver, specializing in influencing and innovative solutions. He helps his clients have the necessary influencing conversations of leadership and helps organizations innovate by leveraging the power of employee ideas.