Ready for Your Job Interview?: Episode 902
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Answering recruiter questions, plus how to craft a personal spiritual retreat, and should you only use Christian dating apps?
Featured musical artist: All Sons & Daughters
Roundtable: Questions to Prepare for a Job Interview
A job interview is one of the most intimidating things you’ll do. How can you possibly be prepared for the questions you’ll be asked? And what questions should you ask in return? Three career recruiters bring their years of experience to suggest what really matters in a job interview, what questions you will absolutely be asked, and how you can be creatively and confidently prepared for the conversation, including any curveballs.
Culture: Take a Personal Spiritual Retreat
How do you tune out the noise in the world, take a break from the daily grind, and really focus on God? By crafting a personal retreat! Becky Harling is an expert at taking time away for worship, reflection and refreshment. She’ll walk us through the experience and its components, whether you can carve out a couple hours, a half day, a whole day or a weekend. If you’re feeling drained and discouraged or just need a spiritual boost or reset, Becky’s suggestions may be just what you need.
Our Father: A Study of the Lord’s Prayer (A 6-Week Bible Study)
Inbox: Only Christian Dating Apps?
Our listener is asking if Christians should use only Christian dating apps, or is it best to branch out to other ones as well. Lisa Anderson weighs in.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Boundless Show. Well, hey, friends, welcome to this week's episode of The Boundless Show. This is Lisa Anderson here with you. And as I often like to do, a little preview of what is coming up later on in the show. |
| 0:24.6 | So first of all, for our inbox, should Christians use only Christian dating apps? Are there |
| 0:30.8 | even Christian dating apps out there? Maybe we'll have to answer that first. I'm going to weigh in on |
| 0:36.3 | this question as a person who has used |
| 0:38.8 | online dating and apps. I have some thoughts. Then for our culture segment, Becky Harleen is back. |
| 0:45.8 | She is going to talk about what it looks like to take a spiritual retreat. What is some structure |
| 0:51.4 | around that? What could that look like? Why is it even important to take, |
| 0:56.2 | whether it's a couple hours, a half day, a whole day to retreat with God and how you do that well? |
| 1:02.1 | So that's going to be awesome. Here we are for our roundtable, though, and I have got three job |
| 1:09.3 | HR hiring professionals here to help us, basically handhold us through the process |
| 1:16.8 | of rocking an interview, specifically around what are good questions you should ask, |
| 1:24.0 | what are questions you will be asked and you need to be prepared with an answer and |
| 1:28.9 | stop acting like you've never interviewed for a job before in your life? And how do you just overall |
| 1:34.5 | put your best foot forward and what could this look like? So my three experts are Simonae, Kelly, |
| 1:40.5 | and Marchanda. Hey, y'all. Hi. Good to have you here. Okay. You guys are so great. All right, first off, just give us a little |
| 1:47.7 | quickly by way of introduction, like how long you have been conducting interviews. How long have |
| 1:54.3 | you been a, what do we call it, talent acquisition specialist? That's pretty awesome. Marcianda, |
| 1:59.5 | how about you? How long have you been in the game? |
| 2:01.9 | So I have been in the game for a little over almost 20 years now. Wow. So I've had some experience |
| 2:07.9 | with both nonprofit and for-profit organizations and have hired everything from entry level to |
| 2:13.6 | executive level professionals. So I feel like it's given me a good overview of what |
| 2:18.1 | organizations are looking for when they interview candidates. Cool. Awesome. Kelly? I have done this |
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