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Conducting The Perfect Job Interview On a Higher Level

The ultimate and true success of any business enterprise is solely dependent upon an effective head and competent employees. Slick, silken-tongued, prospective employees are easy to find and abundant and could easily cause your company ruin. With careful observation, using your own intuition and judgment, you can learn to pick employees with superior qualities.

Looking within yourself do you really feel qualified to hire or reject the best or worst applicant? You can classify yourself. How many bad hires have you made? I know businesses that lose many new hires within six months. It would be less than six months but there is a process in getting rid of bad hires. In some businesses it is too competitive for the average person. There are monthly quotas, stress, heavy competition, low commissions and the list goes on and on. It is expensive in training new hires and when they don’t work out the company loses money. Be careful when you start to hire new employees as many businesses fail because of unqualified associates. These following techniques are from the teachings of a master. If you are motivated to advance your skills it would be best to study and learn these transcendental ways of interviewing. If you can even master one or two of them it would be of a great benefit to you.

Learn to awaken your intuition. It is not as simple as it sounds. The mind with the help of the senses of hearing and sight can give false impressions and build the wrong conclusions from their perceptions. To be able to grasp truth, comprehension must be increased by meditation until it develops into an unlimited cup of intuition and perception. The intuition in man does not require the power of the senses to distinguish truth. The soul sees directly into things with the power of intuition. The post and prenatal history of a man's life is inscribed in his eyes. The intuitive way of reading character is through the eyes. When interviewing a prospective employee if you are somewhat advanced spiritually is when meditating; in meditation, visualize the eyes of that person and examine the feeling that materializes in your heart. If you sense any fear or hesitation, don't hire that person. Keep this in mind if you do not meditate, but are receptive and calm during the interview and you penetrate their eyes and study that person your first impression will be correct. The contents of a man are reflected in their eyes because they are the direct index of the mind. Be careful of revengeful, crafty, sarcastic, untrustworthy, shifting, or cruel eyes. Any lack of straight-forwardness or hate-projecting eyes along with a sinking feeling in your stomach, beware of that person. If you awaken your creative ability any difficulty can be overcome. The success of your business lies with yourself.

Feeling the vibrations in people can help you determine accurate results. How do you sense good or bad vibrations in relation to people? Certain people will vibrate with cruelty, some with temper, and some with nervousness. Other people are spineless and vibrate no will at all. The ones that vibrate kindness you like them at once. The surest way to read the good or bad vibrations people radiate is by watching your feelings so you can sense the vibratory rate of their mind, body and soul. A sick or ailing person has inharmonious and negative body vibrations and should be rejected. Free yourself from any feelings or attraction for the opposite sex as you must be in a neutral state of mind. Keep a kind, unprejudiced feeling in your heart and the microphone of pure feeling will judge superior than any intelligence in the land.

If you awaken your creative ability any difficulty can be overcome. Polished, silky-tongued liars are abundant and these lordly egotists are easily riled, often defensive and will offensively repel those who seek entry into their private thoughts. The success or failure in trusting that person lies within yourself. Watch those who exaggerate or lie, suffer from talkativeness and their words are as useless and ineffective as plastic bullets shot from a toy gun. With words that are always truthful and sincere, they will have just the opposite effect. There are many ways to spot a liar in a interview. The mundane way of spotting a liar in a job interview is through the verbal signs of deception and the reading of body language. How would someone on a higher level perceive the truth in an individual in conducting a job interview? This is what they would tell you, "your speech is a open index to the contents of your heart and reverberations of the hearts vibrations echo into the form of speech." No matter how you dress up and polish an individuals speech, or refine his language, his voice will resonate the inner inclinations residing in his heart. The vibrations and tone of his voice is the reflection of his hearts experience. An evil man may impersonate the tone of voice of a virtuous person, but the wickedness in his heart will surely echo in his deceiving voice. Within the vibration and tone of a persons voice one can recognize from its harshness or mildness the hidden nature and feeling of one's heart.

People that have good thoughts and who are adapted in doing good actions automatically store good habits in their heart, and their actions and speech reflect that kindness. A wicked person who does evil actions, produces wicked habits and a taste for sin in his heart and when he acts or talks, wickedness is spoken within. The life story of a person as to how he lives his life within and what his true character is with friends and family is exposed in his voice.

Do’s and don’ts. It is always better to hire a spiritual person then not as the majority of people want significant or privileged positions, but are unrealistic in their expectations on how to achieve them. Well, how do you attract intelligent employees who are honest and will remain loyal? Seek out creative ability and most of all trustworthiness with those who will make your business and your ambition their business and their ambition. Make sure you test any new employees as to their honesty with money, as you should never take for granted the integrity of any employee. Make sure you subject your employees who are handling money to temptation to see their reaction. You never know what a dishonest person can do to your business. Try to confidentially find out about the honesty, character and ability of a prospective employee when you check their references. On the other side, and if you are an employee and you hear something detrimental or harmful, stay away from that employer altogether and look for another position.

There are a few questions you need to add to your list of required questions and answers during the interview. Testing the spirituality of an applicant with questions and getting the proper answers. The first question is, what is the main goal for success for any thriving business? The answer is, "money-making alone should not be the goal of business. Service should be the true goal of business. By spiritualizing service in your work rather than having moneymaking your entire goal, you will change the plan for your life and never will you be left out. Profiteering should not be synonymous with business. Eradicate this idea completely from your mind. Businesses blunder into periodic inflation and depressions by operating at the expense of others well-being with their own self-interest. This metaphysical blunder will cause selfish enterprises to fail. The second question is; how do you increase the bottom line for your employer? The answer is, the first step to increase the bottom line for your company is to develop the proper qualities by loyal unselfish actions for the betterment of the employer. These unselfish initiatives will automatically propel you to a better position by activating the laws of cause and effect. The biggest to the smallest companies the world over are looking for this type of worker because there is no type of business that can succeed by going it alone.

The third question; is bringing in the dollars to increase the bottom line your main objective in coming to work here? The answer is, no, all commercial businesses should be spiritualized. If your business does not conform to divine laws it will never last. If your business caters just too human lavishness, and the mighty dollar, unethical or false pretenses, it will certainly be ruined by the execution of the spiritual law of the survival of the virtuous. Any business that hurts the true spiritual well-being of the individual does no real good, and is certain to meet with devastation by the very same nature of its actions.

The fourth question; what is your feelings about coexisting with you fellow workers? The answer is, stop seeking prosperity for yourself alone and include others in your own prosperity. This will prevent you from becoming poor. That means not just including your family and yourself but a larger group of people that surround you. This is serious matter; do not take it lightly because using this secret universal law by becoming unselfish and by distributing the prosperity to everyone equally with no exceptions will activate the universal law of karma to come to your aid. The fifth question is; What are you financial goals, do you want to be a millionaire? The answer is, people must determine their goals in life and not get lost and wander along aimlessly in this jungle of existence trying to acquire useless desires instead of satisfying their real needs. You can not find happiness with an insatiable desire of acquiring money, even though money is supposed to bring happiness.

You may get some answers that are similar or as good. You should be very surprised if anyone answers all of these questions correctly. You want your future employees to be full of enthusiasm, honesty, dependability, loyalty, creativity and be ready to swing into action. It is not that easy to do as directed. You must heighten and develop your intuition to make these techniques your own. With those who exclaim "I don't have the time" but are able to arrange unlimited activities for themselves throughout the day and night but don't have a few minutes to meditate should reevaluate their busyness. These people are not dealing with a scheduling conflict or a lack of time, but are suffering from an addiction to restlessness a spiritual disease where they try frantically to alleviate that bare restlessness by self-indulging in further restlessness trying to occupy themselves with worthless diversions to distract themselves mentally from their troubles to tolerate getting through the day. Set aside even fifteen or twenty minutes to meditate out of the twenty-four hour day-even until death who with foolish pursuits is trying to satisfy unsatisfactory desires. But not merely dragging the body to sit and meditate while the mind and heart are busy recycling the worries of the day, but with attentive sincerity giving one's devotion and attention to God with a quiet mind and a calm body.

How many of you can say you have even lived at least one year so far in your lifespan no matter what your age. If we theorize a lifetime of seventy-five years, lets assume its safe to say that thirty-seven of those years are spent in sleep, seeking bodily comforts and eating. Another eighteen years are committed to making a living and keeping the wolf from your door. Of the remaining twenty or so years it is not uncommon for those householders to waist two-thirds of that precious time in fruit-less activities, fraternizing, indulging in idle or frivolous pursuits and gossiping. Only eight or ten years of our lifetime may be left; how many do you think use that time to meditate, seek or think of God and expand their consciousness? Do you think a few minutes that are left in the evening which are meagerly set-aside to parrot up the Lord's Prayer or ask for some desired advantage, act of grace or favor while the mind is desiring to sleep and longing to get this obligatory moment of devotion finished with as soon as possible is time spent really living? Oh Lord, could you please take care of my family and me; I do now have to go to sleep. Those few moments of time with God is practically nil. Yet these same people expect to at the time of their death to enter the everlasting heavenly life in the kingdom of God. Good luck. Copyright Gary Zalben

Who is the Most Successful Salesperson?
How in the world does an average person become a convincing salesperson? How do you close a sale within minutes or even seconds? Will learning the 56 different sales closes do it? What about going to sales seminars, or learning communication skills and personality types? Will learning all of this make one more convincing? I have seen the best and brightest company workers go to important sales seminars from top people in their field and who also watched tapes on learning sales skills but I saw no significant changes in these workers. There is a vast difference between listening to a lecture and applying the truths it contains put into practice. No noticeable changes were seen in them. It still boils down to the hard fact that 20% of the sales people do 80% of the sales. Any sales teacher worth his salt knows this. What I am trying to convey here is to get you into the 20% category. Certainly all the outside help you can get is good but unfortunately the amount of retention from seminars and videos is very little. Most people retain between 10% to 25% of what they see and hear. How do you become a convincing sales person? You have to become childlike. Children are sincere and open, honest, spontaneous and eager. A childlike person is naturally spontaneous, sincere and enthusiastic.

There may be 56 different kinds of sales closes taught by the sales pundits, but you do not have to try to memorize all of them for success. What you do have to memorize is product knowledge, mix with the qualities of an eager child then you are on your way in becoming one of the 20% that do 80% of the sales in all companies. If you practice these qualities your sales will improve according to the amount of time and focus you put in. There is a reason why the simply observe, think it and become it, read about them, learn and do what they did does not work as claimed. Not everyone can become successful by listening, reading, or watching videos repeatedly. There is one truth you may have never heard before. What ever these people have done to accomplish worked for them, but it does not necessarily mean it will work for you.
I will explain how to start outwitting your competitors. You can go from a rookie beginner to the seasoned professional. You must learn how to dominate the sales floor and to literally set the pace for your co-workers. First, you will discover why most sales tips, ideas, and techniques have little effect on most sales people and find out how technology is changing the habits in the way customers shop. Customers are now more sophisticated than ever. Learning to take over the sales floor and getting the majority of the sales is no easy task but it can be done. Some of the things you should learn is how to quadruple your sales, the art of closing a sale without closing and training your customers to be loyal only to you, how to make good habits and understand why bad habits will get in your way and trip you on your road to success because environment is stronger than willpower.

Achievement is quickened or prolonged by habits. I am talking about daily mental habits that have sphere of influence over our daily life. These habits are like glue that attaches everything to your person, bad or good. Good habits attract advantages as bad habits attract disadvantages. For example, you arrive at work and instead of getting down to business you say to yourself, "I need a cup of coffee before I get started and I have a really important phone call I should make." These habits are nothing but distractions that take away your time from sales and you rob yourself of making more sales which means less commission and a smaller pay check. How about having your coffee before work or at lunch time and make your phone calls at lunch time. Refuse a bad habit by rejecting everything that arouses it. One bad habit that I see happen continuously with salespeople is they leave work early to go home when it is slow. Not smart because it could get busy the moment you leave. If this become a bad habit just think how many sales you could lose every time you do this. Cultivate good habits until your hard work is met with success. You can be successful or not depending on your thoughts. Which thought is more prevalent failing or succeeding. Are you mainly positive or negative in your thinking? It will be harder for you to succeed with infrequent positive thoughts. Lets say you practice visualizing in the morning but as soon as you finish you say to yourself, "I have probably just wasted my time seeing myself making all this money and I am pretty sure this technique is useless. I just do not have the patience to do all of this. Patience is a virtue of the dead." Later on you will need to learn how to visualize correctly. Having negative thoughts in the back of your mind is the time waster and negative thoughts can neutralize the positive ones. Negative thinking is the same as worrying. When you worry anxieties and worries arrange your own funeral digging an early grave for yourself. Why bury yourself alive daily from fear and worry. This is defeating yourself and preventing the good that is coming your way.

Some people think their mind entertain thoughts that keep them away from work and cannot stop those thoughts. This is false reasoning! It is the internal pessimistic mental condition sidetracking you from your focus. The majority of people born on this earth are loaded with moods which are leftovers of desires and past bad karma, the unwelcome forces rival of discrimination. Which shall it be victory or defeat. If you adhere to a positive thought it will become real in form. Acquiring good habits in the beginning is essential to meet your goals. Bad habits are like chunks of glass that look like precious stones, but filled with disillusionment and dissatisfaction. The treasure troves for permanent happiness are good habits. Habits are essential but we abuse their power. If you teach a parrot to talk and sing it will duplicate what it hears over and over. If you teach it to use bad language it will repeat profanities again and again against your will upsetting you and others. Weak minded people can descend into bad habits effortlessly as tough- minded people can be taught to make good habits at will. Habits can be made at will by concentration.

The technique for destroying ill formed habits is to concentrate on the brain cells during meditation or when in silence. Concentrate at the third eye at the point between the eyebrows and intensely affirm all the grooves of bad habits are erased and destroyed. When practicing this technique you must be more cautious of the kind of company you keep and whom you are living with. As you progress you will become more and more sensitive and when you become more advanced you will learn how to protect your subconscious mind from your mental environment. Evil tendencies within the subconscious mind are like ticking bombs you do not want to reenergize. The company you keep is stronger than willpower especially the thoughts and feelings you entertain and makes it harder to rid yourself of bad habits. Learning any new technique that works requires constant effort to make it a habit. Understanding this but not putting it into practice will not help you on the sales floor. For example learning to walk the stock room floor upon arriving at work knowing and learning what is in your inventory will help you immensely. If you faithfully practice this technique you will have an advantage over your co-workers as you will out-smart everyone you are working with. The very first thing you do when you arrive at work is go to the stock room and visually eyeball your entire inventory. After you glance at the entire stock room section by section, you then look for the products that sell faster then the others. You know the one’s that can make you the most money. You must retain in the back of your mind throughout the day the items of importance that you have on hand. You must remember especially the ones that you have only one left or the one’s you are sold out of.

If you happen to be in the garment or wearing apparel business this means you must not only remember the colors but most important the sizes of all big sellers. If your are selling shoes you must remember styles, sizes, and colors. Once you start doing this and you don’t get lazy, this practice will be done and finished in just a few short minutes. Now your are ready to demonstrate your knowledge on the sales floor. This is how I use this technique. When a customer comes in the store and asks me for a certain product, I will instantly know if I’m going to get them what they ask for, or if I will switch them to another product. If I say to the customer we do not have that in stock, they can say "thanks" and walk out. I must have at my command and in my mind, the items of importance in the entire inventory. Can you imagine spending your valuable time selling an item you have on display and finding out you do not have it in stock, or in their size. Then you either have to try to switch them to another product, try to get it for them or lose the sale. You will be spending as much time trying to save the sale.

If you knew all of this ahead of time and switched your customer to a different product and explained to them in the beginning that you are showing them a newer or better product, they will not suspect that you do not have it in the first place, and they will think, "oh what a knowledgeable and thoughtful sales person and so sincere." I will take his advice and buy the other product. Here is another way to use this knowledge to turn around a potential lost sale. The customer says, "I want this silver clock you have on display." You reply, "I do not have it in stock but I have this one that just came in and the features are about the same only they are improved." Subconsciously the customer knows they are talking to someone that knows what is going on and in most cases will come to you for a sale or advice on what to buy. Remember that when you try to switch a customer on a product and you don’t have what they came in for, you get the least amount of resistance without their knowledge that you never had the product.

Teachers talk about time management but usually in generalities. Managing how you spend your time during the day will help determine how many sales you make. First, you must know what you are not supposed to do on the sales floor if you are working on one. You may notice your co-workers standing around together talking and joking with nothing to do while waiting for customers. They are in a huddle, this means standing around together like a football team. When you come on the sales floor you first survey the sales floor and look for any free customers. You never drop your attention on making sales happen rather than falling into the pitfalls of being a mediocre sales associate by losing your focus. Remember you are there to make money and your must get into the habit of using every minute productively. Take no more than a half hour for lunch unless your are forced to, taking your lunch at a busy time is the wrong time, talking on the phone when its not necessary or removing yourself from the front door where customers come in, spending to much time behind the counter, taking frequent or long brakes. You can not forget even for a moment that you are a commission sales person and how you spend your time with a non-buyer or a lookie-lou is essential. What applies here is the hot-potato syndrome, which means you drop them like a hot potato.

Well, you might, at this time ask yourself do I really want to be a commission salesperson? If the answer is yes then you start allocating your time to making money and not interfacing work with pleasure. Start to develop strict working habits. With the right frame of mind, you will be much more satisfied making sales and money rather than taking long brakes or misusing your time as this will only diverge your attention from your goal. I hear so many sales associates saying "I know the labor laws, I am entitled to so many brakes during the day." When I hear this I laugh to myself. The more they are off the sales floor talking on the phone, taking brakes and so on the more customers there are for me. Most of these types of sales people have no fixed goals, are weak producers and are usually transitory in this type of job.

Steps of the sale greeting your customer. Attraction and repulsion is a universal law that governs our whole universe. When you meet a new person you can be instantly turned off or repulsed by them. It is much better that there is more of an attraction when you greet a customer and the way to do that is to be a smile millionaire. Greeting the customer correctly is as important as closing the sale. The reason this is so important is, if the customer is a real buyer and they do not want to acknowledge this at first, you must make an excellent impression on them so they will come back only to you. First, the contagious smile. This does take some practice as this is a cardinal rule.

When you greet a customer you must have a contagious, million dollar smile on your face until it is second nature. You have to practice this without fail. Even if it means you have to stand in front of a mirror and pushing up the sides of your mouth every day for a few moments to practice. If you are having a trying day, you do not want to clean the floor with your long face. Learn to smile from the heart. I am not saying that you should always smile like a clown or a Cheshire cat. That kind of smile "doesn’t mean a thing," it is worthless. But a smile that comes from the soul communicates itself in your expression, in your appearance and is sincere. Do not smile in a motionless, skilful way, when within, your thoughts are of other things. When you fake a smile there is nothing within you to make the smile genuine. Not many can refuse to accept a person who has genuine smile when it is mirrored from the heart.

In comparison, the designer jeans of today’s styles will not sell in stores unless they are distressed to the point of looking old and almost ragged. Manufactures are now using lasers to achieve the used look. When you look at the results, it looks good on the surface but you know inside yourself that it is fake. You do not want your face to look contrived like designer jeans walking the sales floor with a smile. People can tell when something is fake. I always get the feeling when I see a fake smile that I am being played. This is where your enthusiasm comes in as you must be very upbeat and cheerful.

Greeting the customer. I was taught at a very young age never say to a customer "can I help you". If they wanted help they would go to the Salvation Army. But in reality the hungry salesperson wants to cut to the chase as he becomes direct not to waste his precious time. He then must tweak "can I help you?" in the correct manner.

When I notice customers walking in very fast as though they were on a mission, I already know these are the real buyers. I always start off with them by saying, "Hi can I get something for you?" I only say this when I feel the customer already knows what he or she wants. Always greet a customer with a hi or hello, welcome to, good morning or afternoon, a million dollar smile and correct body language, which means never with your hands in your pockets or your arms folded in front of you or leaning or resting on a counter or other object. If the customer says "I am just looking" after being greeted, you must give them your name and say "if you have any questions please call me, or please ask for me, I would appreciate it, I will be right over here."

To most customers I say, "Would you please ask for me? My name is." You want them to feel that by asking for you or calling you, they will get excellent service and they might feel obligated to call you as you were very polite to them. This does work because if their first impression is good and they like you, they will ask for you. If you are wearing a name badge, point to it when you give a customer your name so they can see your name as well as hear it. You must imprint your name in their memory banks so if they need to call for you later they will have it on the tip of there tongue. For if they forget your name then you did not make a strong enough impression on them and they can just go to another sales person if you are not in sight when they do need help with a product. Always look your customer in the eyes never turning away or facing down as it may show insecurity and you may be perceived as being shifty. If your customer does not trust you they will not buy from you. All Content Copyright Gary Zalben

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