Job market looking up? looking Down? The only way to get a new job is to crack the interview
On EITF season 1, we asked the following question : When you interview someone today for a position in your company, apart from the job qualifications, what do you look for in the candidate and how do you make the decision to hire or not to hire? In this article, we will tell you why we asked this question, and what we learned. Let us give you a little background for the tech industry at the start of Season 1. We began working on the EITF project in April of 2022. This was back when the job market was in a post-covid hiring frenzy. The state of things had a catchy nickname as well – “The great resignation”. The pandemic was forcing everyone to reassess what they wanted their lives to look like in the present–and not just in 5 or 10 years. Employees had had time to reflect on their career journeys and decided to make changes that better aligned with their desires to spend more time with their families, have better work-life balance, or even leave the workforce altogether. A lot of ch