About this episode

The episode discusses strategies for handling a job interview when a colleague is on the panel.

POV: You finally land a job interview...then discover someone from your current workplace is sitting on the interview panel. 😳 What do you do? In this week's episode, Sarah and Emma unpack a listener's real-life government job interview dilemma, including whether to tell your boss you're job hunting, how to handle a familiar face on the panel, and why the best advice doesn't always come from the internet. 🏀 Shoot Your Shot - Shoutout to Eibhan! “Hi Sarah and Emma! I am about to finish my final year of university and the graduate job market over here is super competitive. I could spend hours talking about the amount of jobs I have applied for and not heard back from or applied and things didn’t work out, but I finally found my dream role. It’s essentially a tech consultant role, which combines my two greatest interests (coding and working with people). Once I realised I actually had a shot even after seeing that this job was super competitive, I was recommended your podcast by my brother (shoutout to you Joey love you). Listening to your podcast I felt like one of the girls despite being a tall large man. Anyway, in short, I grew so much in confidence and built trust in myself…

People in this episode

Hosts: Sarah, Emma

Topics covered

• job interview
• career advice
• job hunting
• interview panel
• confidence building

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