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A new tallest skyscraper, telling great interview stories, and transformative wisdom
A new tallest skyscraper, telling great interview stories, and transformative wisdom
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🏗️ In today’s newsletter:
The new tallest building in the world is resuming progress
How to tell great stories in job interviews
Change your thoughts to change your outcomes
🔥💵 Hot Job – Senior Network Architect Engineer
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After a few years of being left alone, the future world’s tallest skyscraper is making progress again.
Originally begun in 2013, the Jeddah Tower (originally named the Kingdom Tower) was designed to be the tallest building in the world. Yes, even taller than the Burj Khalifa (but designed by the same architect, Adrian Smith)! It is planned to be 1,000 meters or 3,281 feet tall. It will have a total built area of 530,000 square meters or 5.7 million square feet. Wow!
👷🏼♀️ But it has faced some challenges along the way, including:
The initial contractor was replaced during the 2017-2019 Saudi Arabian Purge
The COVID-19 pandemic didn’t help
They are still looking for a new contractor, and are reportedly receiving bids through the end of this year.
Before the construction hiatus, the building had reached the 63rd floor, with the bulk of the foundation already completed.
📍 When completed, it will serve as a mixed-use building and will include the world’s highest observation deck, a luxury hotel, residences, and offices. It’s meant to be the focal point of the revitalized Jeddah urban district.
Its unique “three-petal footprint” is designed to be aerodynamic and reside wind loading.
💨 How do you get to the top you say? Well, with a building this size, the elevator system must also be high-level. It will include 59 elevators and 12 escalators, with some elevators traveling as fast as 10 meters per second!
When will it be finished? There isn’t a current estimate, but it’s bound to be one of the most impressive buildings ever created when it’s complete!
Career tips
👀 Got a job interview? Tell a great story!
We all have many stories to tell from our education and careers. These stories are a representation of how hard we have worked, how we learned and developed new skills, and how we contributed to the greater good of the organizations or project teams we worked with.
One of the key factors to job interview success is the ability to clearly tell these important stories to your interviewers. The best way to structure the stories you tell is using a technique called the STAR method. This is an acronym that is widely used for behavioral interview questions. Here is a brief explanation:
📇 Situation - you need to set up the situation. Identifying and describing your situation whether that be an event or a work experience. Describe how important the situation or project is, and why it mattered.
🟢 Task - being clear with what you wanted to achieve and what your responsibility was in the project or situation. What did you need to accomplish?
🎯 Actions - what are the steps you took in order for you to move through that process? Make it easy to follow and understand.
📈 Results - this is the outcome or the conclusion of the situation you are in. Make it measurable if possible. Describe the improvement made, the crisis averted, or the resolution created. Resolve the issue you set up in the “situation.”
As you tell these stories, one of your main goals should be that those who are interviewing you should remember you. Additionally, many studies have revealed that people remember the most from the beginning and the end of experiences.
Thinking broadly, it's important to have a great first impression and end an interview on a positive note. Yet the same principles apply to each individual answer you give or story you tell.
📊 This is mostly done as you explain the "Situation" and "Results" of your stories. You need to set up the appropriate context and almost the drama of the situation, then resolve it with the final results. Ideally, you'll want to back up these explanations with measurable data you can share. That would be memorable, and get the interviewers imagining you delivering similar results in their organization. Then, they might want to hire you!
Start right and end right to tell meaningful and impactful stories, and deliver a great interview!
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“As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every act of a man springs from the hidden seeds of thought, and could not have appeared without them.”
James Allen in As a Man Thinketh
book recommendation
📝 This book is short, but powerful. It was described by Allen as “... [dealing] with the power of thought, and particularly with the use and application of thought to happy and beautiful issues. I have tried to make the book simple, so that all can easily grasp and follow its teaching, and put into practice the methods which it advises. It shows how, in his own thought-world, each man holds the key to every condition, good or bad, that enters into his life, and that, by working patiently and intelligently upon his thoughts, he may remake his life, and transform his circumstances.”
What you think influences what you do and what you become. This book helps you change and improve what you think.
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Written by
Jeff Perry
Engineering Career Coach
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