hey everybody Don Georgevich here with
job interview tools have you been
impacted by covid19
have you lost your job because of covid
well today i want to give you
three things that are going to help you
tell employers explain to employers
why you lost your last job now i get
emails from people
every single day so you my friend are
not alone people are writing me they're
like don i lost my job because i coveted
what am i supposed to tell
employers now do i just go in there and
say well it was covet i lost my job
and they're going to be thinking well
you know if you were any good that maybe
you wouldn't have lost your job
you know all these things are running
through people's minds
and they just don't feel comfortable
going in there and saying i lost my job
because of covid
so today i want to break that down and
just give you a strategy that you can
use when you go on your next job
interview
give you something to to help explain to
an employer
what happened so that it doesn't make
you look undesirable when you're talking
to an employer and trying to sell
yourself
on why they should hire you so first i
want to start off with i got an email i
want to read one of these emails to you
that i got from a guy
and he says i don't paraphrase some of
this he says hey don how do i handle
discussing my separation from my
employer during covid
he says i was asked to resign i was
offered a severance
and i received some legal advice i
declined the severance
and then they terminated me bam out
he says i filed a grievance and the
grievance committee found in my favor
recommended that i be offered my job
back
and but it was still up to the
administrator to decline the
recommendation
blah blah blah blah blah this goes on
for like two more paragraphs
it's just a bunch of whiny whiny whiny
whiny whiny it's not my fault
i was fired i really want my job back
and that is the worst
thing you can possibly do is to go into
an employer
and just dump on them and say it wasn't
my fault i filed the grievance i won the
grievance
um i should have my job back it doesn't
fly that doesn't work and besides
you are not on trial you don't have to
go into a job interview
and talk to a prospective employer and
give them
you know this boatload this long sad
story of how you were let go and how it
wasn't your fault
and why they should hire you back and
that you were treated unfairly
employers don't want to hear that you
are there
to talk about what you can do for them
you're not there to explain
what happened in your last job it's why
you got fired
that is just so irrelevant but people
like to take this and just expand on it
and and i think part of the reason
people like to go so deep is because
they really feel
that it wasn't their fault and they want
to explain to an employer someone who
will listen
that hey it really wasn't my fault i
didn't deserve this
and you know what maybe that's true but
this actually
brings me to um just a quick little
segue here
if you've ever heard of jocko willink
he wrote this book called extreme
ownership
and what he talks about in extreme
ownership is that
you have to own everything you have to
own your mistakes if you were fired you
have to own it if it wasn't your fault
it doesn't matter
it doesn't matter you were let go
you have to accept responsibility for
that and if you don't
employers are just going to think that
you're a crybaby
and i know you're not i know you're not
but you're struggling
inside trying to figure out how to
present
your story to an employer so that it
makes sense i'm gonna make it
very easy for you so i wanna give you
three things
that you can use that are gonna help you
explain
why you were fired first one is
own it own it
go in there and say you know what maybe
if my numbers were a little bit better
maybe if my performance was a little bit
higher they wouldn't have let me go
but you know it is what it is and i was
let go and i accept total responsibility
for that
period another thing you can say number
two
is you can go a little bit further and
say they had to let
you know 30 people go i was the last one
to go
they wanted to keep me so bad my boss
was fighting for me
but it was a numbers game and they had
to let 30 people go and the axe just
fell on me
now if that's not actually true then
don't say that
but if it's true and you were the last
one to go that's some
leverage that you can scrape up and say
you know in addition to
owning it tell them that i was the last
one to go
they really wanted to keep me and they
promised to call me back
but again only say that if that's true
and the third thing you need to remember
is you are not on trial
you're not there to explain why you were
fired
you are there in this job interview to
explain what you can
do for them not how it didn't work out
in your past job explain what you can do
for them
in this job take that job description
read through it thoroughly find out
what they are looking for what is most
important to them
and then go in there ferociously and say
you know what
these are all the kinds of things that i
can do and i can do them well and i did
them in my last job
and i did them better than anybody else
here's how i can do those things for you
take those employers problems that they
have because that's that's why they're
hiring you that's why they're looking
for people is because they have problems
they're looking for someone to be able
to solve those problems so go in there
take that list of problems that they
have and talk to them about it
work with them and say you know what i i
can deal with these things these are
things that i've done before have you
thought about doing this have you
thought about doing that
here's how i can help you go further
here's how you i can build that
territory here's help
here's how i can help you build out that
application you know whatever it is
whatever it is focus on
their needs if you go in there just
focusing on what happened to you in the
past
then you're making the interview all
about you
and why you were fired and how you were
fired how unfair it was
they don't care they don't care they
want to hear
what you can do for them so spend as
little of time as you possibly can
talking about why
you were fired so let's go back to that
email that i talked about about the guy
who wrote in and gave this big long sob
story
about why he was let go and boohoo
here's what i told them to say
i said take those three paragraphs of
boohoo
and condense it down to one single
statement because that's all you gotta
do you're not there to tell a story
you just wanna give him one single
statement about why you were fired so
here's what i told them to say this is a
three-part answer
so go in there and tell them that you
were asked to resign because of covid
19. part two you declined to resign
you're like you know what i think i'm
doing fine here
i'm not gonna resign and you know what
they called my bluff and they says
you're fired and and that was it
so i packed up my bags and i left and
you know in hindsight it was probably
the best move i ever made
because it got me out of an environment
that i just wasn't performing
as well as i could have period done
that's all you got to say
one single statement if they want to ask
you a couple of follow-up questions
about that
that's fine they can do that but you
don't want to go in there and just say
oh my last employer let me go and they
shouldn't have when i file the grievance
if you go in there and you tell a
prospective employer
that you challenged a past
termination and that you took it to the
review board and that you know you
wanted your job back
they're going to see you as very
litigious and they
are not going to want to take a chance
on you because if you're the kind of
person
that just cries foul every time
they don't want those kind of people
working for them they want people who
are there for the company
who are there to deliver who are there
to show up be a part of that culture
and help that company move forward they
don't want crybabies
they don't want people who are litigious
they don't want
people who don't want to be there
it's as simple as that so if you were
fired
because of covid 19
pick yourself up and stop feeling sorry
for yourself
and go out there and tell employers what
you
can do for them and focus on that
take all the emphasis off of
why you were fired why you were let go
all right my friend
now to help you to help you go farther
with this
head on over to javanevetools.com
download this book it's called the top
10
job interview questions see this is top
10. so there's 10 of them in there
these have some of the most common
interview questions that you can expect
to get asked stuff like you know tell me
about yourself
why do you want to work here what are
your greatest strengths
stuff like that and you are going to get
asked those kinds of questions these
questions are written in a way
that they're going to help you answer
other questions so once you learn how to
answer these
this style of answering is just going to
kind of
uh you know rub off on you so to speak
and it's going to prepare you to answer
a lot of the other questions that they
are going to ask you
so that is all i have for you today my
friend
and if you were fired i i am very sorry
and i don't mean to make
light of that i have been fired probably
more than anybody
i've been fired seven eight times in my
career
so i not making light of it i'm not
calling you a crybaby or anything else
like that
i've been there i know your pain all i'm
saying is
you don't need to share that pain with
the rest of the world all right my
friend
go out there and get them we'll see you
next time bye-bye