GUIDESPARK INTERVIEW PREPARATION
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Congratulations, we (Marilou & Mel Cades of RC Search) submitted your candidacy to GuideSpark and one of the hiring authorities (Jim Kirby or Steven Antuna) wants to telephone interview you.

We would like to prepare you for this GuideSpark telephone interview by

  • Providing you with more information about GuideSpark
  • Coaching you so that you can deliver the “best interview of your life”.

Marilou & Mel will schedule your call with Jim Kirby or Steven Antuna. After determining your and their availability for the telephone interview, we will send you each an interview email invitation specifying the day and time for the call as well as the telephone number they should call to reach you.

Your call with Jim Kirby or Steven Antuna will last 30 minutes. They will be looking for your answers to the following questions:

  • Why are you interested in exploring an opportunity with GuideSpark
  • How do your experience and skill sets match up with GuideSpark’s selection criteria for the role for which you are interviewing.

GUIDESPARK CORPORATE INFORMATION

The more you know about GuideSpark the better your call will go with Jim or Steven.

We suggest that you

Interview Coaching

Our interview coaching includes 2 chapters – one chapter specific to GuideSpark and one chapter which provides generic interview coaching information that will help you with any interviewing you are doing with any hiring authority.

GuideSpark Specific Interview Coaching

We suggest that you have the following documents in front of you when you telephone interview with Jim Kirby or Steven Antuna:

  • The candidacy cover letter email we submitted along with your resume to Jim Kirby. (Marilou & I should have already sent you a copy of this candidacy cover letter. If you do not have it, ask us to send it to you before your call with Jim or Steven.)
  • The GuideSpark Job Description for the position for which you are interviewing. The GuideSpark Job Descriptions are located at the following URL:
    https://rcsearch.com/open-positions

Generic Interview Coaching

We suggest that you

  • listen to our MP3 audio interview coaching tracks #3, #4 and #5 located at the following URLs:
    https://rcsearch.com/images/audio/concepts.mp3
    https://rcsearch.com/images/audio/plan.mp3
    https://rcsearch.com/images/audio/guide.mp3
  • read our 9 page coaching tutorial entitled “Achieving Your Career Objectives” located at the following URL;
    https://rcsearch.com/images/Career_objectives_print.pdf
  • call us at 800-256-0654 in the event that the telephone interviewer fails to call you within 5 minutes after the specified interview time. As soon as we learn that the telephone interview has not taken place, we will call the interviewer to determine how long his/her call to you will be delayed.
  • call us at 800-256-0654 after your telephone interview and answer the following 4 questions:
    • How long did you and the interviewer speak
    • What is your level of interest in the opportunity on a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being high)
    • What do you guess the interviewer’s level of interest is in your candidacy on a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being high)
    • What did you and the interviewer decide would be the next step in the interview process