No. But youre applying for a job thats a cpa firm. I didntiwell narrator and the breakthroughs. Lets drop the mic and walk the hell out of this room, okay . Narrator as candidates come face to face with actual employers. Interviewing today, Fort LauderdaleAccounting Firm xendoo is looking for a bookkeeper who is a whiz with numbers. The successful candidate will be accurate, detaildriven, and all about the client. Narrator each of these applicants is hoping theyll be the one to get the call. Now all that stands between them and the job of their dreams. 1,600. 800. Narrator is themselves. Fantastic. Oh narrator xendoo is a provider of Accounting Services for small businesses. Thanks so much. Youre so welcome. Thank you. Appreciate it. Narrator today, theyre seeking a bookkeeper. The salary 35,000 to 45,000 per year. The location south florida. Weve got five, though, right . Weve got five. Narrator conducting the interview is lillian roberts, who launched the company last year. Small Business Owners theyre the backbone of our company, and those are the people that were servicing. Were growing to thousands of clients; were nationwide. The job entails accounting, bookkeeping, and they have a lot of client communication. Narrator assisting her will be cofounder steve gelley. This position is critical. First and foremost, they have to be detailoriented. Ive interviewed probably 700 people over my career. Our interviews are tough. I wouldnt want to be interviewed by us. Narrator 120 candidates applied for the position. Based on the strength of their resumes, lillian and steve selected five for interview. The successful candidate will be someone highly organized, extremely detailoriented, with excellent math skills. This interview is their one and only chance to impress. Sign in for an interview . Yeah. Yes, please. Hi. How are you . Hi there. How are you . I work as a staff accountant. The Current Company im at is a big Company Bought out by a bigger company, and they are moving their Accounting Services overseas, so our whole department has end dates. It can be tough, but you take the punches as they come. Right here with detail oriented with the ability to multitask with great followup. Look how its off a half a space. Theres some typos. Theres spacing issues. Hi. Hi. How you doing . Good. In the past month and a half, ive been on eight interviews. You have to go in with a positive attitude, and it is frustrating when you dont hear back from a company when they tell you that they will call you back, but you just have to keep on plugging, because in reality, you have to pay your bills. On her, im noticing a couple of things thats not great. All of her Work Experience is very shorttermed. It just seems like she bounced around a lot. I like to learn by teaching. For my interview, i told my husband to sit down. I want to teach you. He said, im not interested. I said, i dont care. Just listen to me. I just want to teach you so i can brush up my fundamentals. Right, so, richard, right . Yes, maam. Go ahead and head on back. Hi. How are you . Hi there. Great, thank you. How are you today . Wonderful. Hi. Hey. How are you . Good morning. How are you today . Good. Okay. Hey. Hi there. How are you all doing . Pleasure to meet you. Bill. Absolutely. How you doing . Steve. Nice to meet you, steve. Nice to meet you. Thanks for coming in. So before we get into the meat of it, you gave me, like, a half handshake. Really . Did you realize that . Yeah. Here. Lets shakeshake my hand again. He gave me a strong one. There you go. He gave you a strong one . He gave me kind of a half handshake, and i didnt realize if it was any reason. Yeah. My dad always taught me, you know, look them in the eyes and shake a firm hand, and with a lady, youre more gentle. Wow. Tell us a little bit about yourself. I have done mba, master in Business Administration in finance and marketing. I came to u. S. 6 1 2 years ago. My husbandhe was working here, so i moved. And do you like it here . Initially, i was a little bored, because i did not have my work visa. Right. But now i have it, so im enjoying it. I have a little daughter. I have work, i have home, so i enjoy my life. Everythings great. Everything is going great. What do you know about us as a company . I did some research. I went online and found that youre not too far from my home. Your company is a startup company. I even drove by, you know, the location. Great that you did the research. Are you husband and wife, by the way . No. No, no. No. Okay. In what order do these three areas drive you praise, financial, and accomplishment . Its sort of a trick question to begin with, but it also reveals a lot about somebody. Okay. What were really looking for with that is we want somebody to say accomplishment, financial, and then praise. You know what . Get your praise at home. Accomplishment, financial, praise. Good. Ive been very fortunate with my finances, so its gonna be accomplishment, praise, and finance. Very nice. If they say financial first, you know, it makes me wonder why in the worldeven if you think financial, dont say that on an interview. Financial, praise, accomplishment. Thank you. Hi. Good morning. Hi. Good morning. How are you . Good. Im here for an interview. Yeah. Just go ahead and sign in. I was the first female helicopter mechanic in the army. I was in a company of all guys, went to school with all guys. It was fabulous. Were actually going for a helicopter license in the next few months. Awesome there is nothingabsolutely nothing in the world that will compare to the helicopter. As a female mechanic in the army, you have to know your numberscenter of gravity, the rotation on the blades. What do you feel is one of your greatest strengths . Im a very good learner. Im loyal. I would say its my drive and my personality. What would be your greatest weakness . I secondguess myself. Im a little unsure sometimes. I really used to be very shy. It kind of went into anxiety, so i sometimes do certain things to counteract it. What do you mean . What do i do because ofwell, those are Little Things i try not to let people know about, sosometimes ill push my toes into my shoes if im nervous. Mmhmm. Not saying im doing that now, but. Are you . No. Im not. Can you explain the difference between desktop versus cloud . No. What would your pets say about you if we asked for a reference . I dont have a pet. Can you draw us a four bedroom, twobathroom house . Its the hardest thing ive ever done in an interview before. Would you like some water . What was the longest job you had . Um, seven years. And what happened at that job . I left the accounting company. [laughs] would you go back . Would i go back into Public Accounting again . No. But youre applying for a job thats a cpa firm. I didntiwellsomewhat. Youre we do tax returns. Were a technology company, but were in the cpa space. Its there. It shows you in the offerings. Oh, i guess it just slipped my mind, but, i mean, im notyou know, i wasnt in that realm of thought right now. I know how to do all of that. But its not what your ideal space is. No. I think were good. Well, we thank you for your time. Well be in touch. I look forward to it. [sighs] i think i screwed up a little. I forgot they were a cpa firm. [sighs] just blanked out of my head. Going down. Shbecause xfinity mobilehen ygives you more flexible data. You can choose to share data between lines, mix with unlimited, or switch it up at any time. All on the most reliable wireless network. Which means you can save money without compromising on coverage. Get more flexible data, the most reliable network, and more savings. Plus, get 300 off when you buy a new Samsung Galaxy s20 ultra. Thats simple. Easy. Awesome. Go to xfinitymobile. Com today. Narrator Accounting Firm for its newest bookkeeper. Im here for the interview. Great. I started working since i was very young, and i was always saving money. My mom was gone. Now that im older, im looking to buy a new car, but i have money saved up, so its always been good. It seems that you just graduated, right . Yes, in may 4th, actually. May 4th. Congratulations. Whos counting, right . May 4th. Tell us a little bit about yourself. Im colombian. Ive been here living for about 13 years with my mom. She is a single mom, so weve always been trying to help each other out. Ive been working, babysitting. I love kids since i was 12, but as i got older, i decided to take the finance path. All right. So a little bit of math. Okay. Here we go. Not hard math, please. Okay. My hair is behind my ears. Im ready to go. You are. Is that for good luck . Im hoping. If a bus conductor issues 50 tickets in 30 minutes, how many tickets can he issue in eight hours . 800. Perfect. There would be 100 tickets in an hour, so 800. Um. [quirky music] 1,600. Okay. 800. All right. Its 800. I should have had that one. Im good with math. I saw, you were heading right down the path. [stammering] 800. Got it. Yeah. What percentage of 80 is 100 . What percentage. What percentage of 80 is 100 . Okay. 20 . 80 percent . 125 . Fantastic. I think thats how it should be. 125125 . Perfect, all right. A lot of things that we discussed today showed detail. So if we were to come to your house and we looked in your closet, what would we see . [laughs] that tells so much about somebody. Details are everything to me, especially when it comes to money. We need to see a really organized closet. The tshirts, you would see the blouses. I put my pants through a hanger. I fold them by the seams to where they have the crease here. Nice. On top, you have all my boots for winter clothes. And you hang those up, and then my shorts i just fold and put them on top of each other. Dresses on one side and work clothes on the other side. Okay. Great. It depends when youre coming. Monday itll be good, but by thursday or friday, it wont be that good. Okay. But with my daughter, sometimes during the week, it becomes difficult, so its like, not be exactly in the place where it should be. Then on saturday, i make it a point that i keep it. Okay. Are you quick to anger . Anger . I get upset easily. I mean, not that easily, but yeah, i get upset, so its only for a very short period of time, but i do get upset. What makes you angry . I work monday through friday, and the other girl, she works on weekends, but one day we were both working together, and she was a little rude to me, so i just stepped out. I cooled off. Then i came back, and then i tried to explain her, because she was acting rude, so thats difficult to take for me. So when you say you had to cool off, what do you mean by cool off . I just wanted to talk rudely. Smack her . No, no, no, no, no. Fantastic. Steve, you all right . Yeah. Im good. Ruchi, its been an absolute pleasure to spend the time with you. I dont know whats gonna be the result, but im gonna say i did very well. Awesome. Good. Well, thank you so much. Bye bye. Great. Thank you. Bye bye. I can see that angry side in her. It came out. Right. I like being a little bit fiery and feisty. It could be at the expense of clients, and i think thats an area that we never, ever risk. I think i could have done a little better, but yeah, it was well, it was good. Going down. Narrator is looking for a meticulous bookkeeper. Theyve narrowed the search to the final three candidates. So lets do this. That is a sample profit and loss statement. Thats for a retail store. Look over it. Tell me if anything jumps out at you thats abnormalsomething that the Business Owner might want to know. We purposely put mistakes on these profit and loss statements. These mistakes should jump right out at them. If the candidate cant identify this, then theyre definitely not the right fit for us. Take your time. I dont like being put on the spot. [tense music] you know, he went up with his revenue, but his profit went down. I would want to know why their bank charges are increasing and why their profit went down so much. Good. He or she might be giving deals to get more revenue in so they can get their name out more. Perfect. Theyre focusing a lot on the sales side, but theyre not really budgeting wise when it comes to the expenses. Good. Something is off on it. Can you share with us what is . It looks like they have the same profit for more revenue, which im not gonna say is a red flag, but itd be maybe something to look into. Right. Yeah. Good. Great job. Good. Great job. So let us share with you what it is. So income did go up. Yeah. Right . From one year to the next. Look how much the cost to consult went up here. Oh, that went up there drastically, to the point where they actually made less money. Which could be theft. Yeah. So what we were looking for with this was, do you the business as a holistic approach . Because as being small Business Owners xendoo is small Business OwnersAccounting Firm. Theyre counting on us to watch their books for them. Well be in touch. We really appreciate you spending the time with us. Oh, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. When i was looking at that income statement, i was hesitant. When youre put on the spot like that, its like somebody watching over your back, youre gonna get nervous. She looked at it like a traditional. Accountant. Bookkeeping accountant. Right. Where they look looking to see if it adds up. Yep. Thats the firstyeah. You know what . You hit it on the head there, steve. Going down. Whys this job important to you and your family . Its important for my family to make them proud of whatever im accomplishing. My mom was always working hard to maintain a good lifestyle for me, and thats when i was able to start working. I try to take that weight away from her and try to take it on upon myself. I guess i just want to look at myself in the mirror and say, you did something with your life. Thats really important to me that im doing something professional to where, you know, you cant just learn this in a couple days. You know . I have a lot to give. Im eager to learn, and i want to eventually become an asset to the company. Very nice. I think you should hire me because im gonna bring the positivity every day. When you stay positive in life, things happen for you, and happiness leads to success, not vice versa. Perfect. All right. Good . I think so. Its been great speaking with you and meeting you. Thank you so much. Okay. And very calm. Yeah. We appreciate it. Take care. Enjoyed our time with you. Well talk to you. Thank you. Really delightful guy, i have to say. And hes a brain. Yes. It went well, in my opinion. I feel good. Their opinion might be different, but i think its the same. Im gonna stay positive like i always try to do. I feel like i nailed it. I had a great connection with both lillian and steve, so im hoping to hear back from them as soon as i can. Lots of positive. Yes. Gets it. Yeah. Definitely gets it. Wants it. Definitely wants it. We have a very difficult decision ahead of us. Good day. Good day. W . Nand xendoo is ready to hireys their new bookkeeper. They have two impressive candidates, but they can only give the job to one. Im hoping to get that call saying that i did get the job and im able to start next week. Dont be nervous. Thats easy for you to say. [laughter] i think i did very well. I feel like the two people that i interviewed with, i definitely want to work with. All right, steve. What do you think . Im confident its the right decision for us. Lets do it. Hello . Hello. Youve reached richard. Hi there. This is lil. Steves here too. How are you . We really enjoyed meeting you, and youre just so accomplished for such a young age. Thank you. Thank you. As we told you that day, we were very impressed with you. Thank you so much. Your skillset very impressive and just your story. I mean, with how youre looking at the future and where youre headed. Your core values you fit our core values. You align with xendoo. Youre a freethinker, which we loved, and so its been a very, very tough choice to make, and sometimes theres easy calls, and sometimes theres difficult calls. Well, this is an easy call to make. Wed love to offer you the position. Thats awesome. Im so happy. Yay. Yay. Well, we are so excited to have you come aboard. You are just a tremendous individual. I hope im a good addition to your team. We cant wait to get started with you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Good night, natalia. Have a good night. You too. Bye bye. You got it . I got it oh, my god. Come here. I know [squeals] i want you to know that you are just a very, very special guy and are gonna go very far in life. Unfortunately, we cannot offer the position to you. Okay. I got to tell you, it was just so close. It was such a hard decision. But we have another position that we feel would fit you great with a friend of mines company, and we want to set you up for an interview. Really . Well, thats very nice of you to think about me like that. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thanks a bunch, richard. Take care. All right. Have a great night. Bye bye. You too. [sighs] its hard to do. Yeah, very. Very hard decision. It was close. You win some, you lose some. However, this was not a loss. I was delighted to know that they were gonna offer me a position for another interview with a company that they work with, and i was very happy to hear that they thought about me in such high regards. Im so proud of you. This job means pretty much the world to me right now. 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