{"id":2033,"date":"2011-09-08T12:59:52","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T17:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.strategicsearch.com\/interview-preparation-blog\/?p=413"},"modified":"2011-09-08T12:59:52","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T17:59:52","slug":"interviews-are-important-even-in-the-ufc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/interviews-are-important-even-in-the-ufc\/","title":{"rendered":"Interviews Are Important Even In the UFC!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>One of my main mantras is:<\/strong> selling yourself in interviews is the most important part of landing a job. This took new meaning on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mixed_martial_arts\">MMA&#8217;s (Mixed Martial Arts)<\/a> highest stage; the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ultimate_Fighting_Championship\">UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship)<\/a>! <\/p>\n<p>Nick Diaz, a fighter scheduled for a welterweight championship bout on October 29th, failed to show for not one, but two &#8220;interviews&#8221;! His type of interview was different from the normal job interview. It was a press conference, which was a mandatory precursor to his actual fight, but it was an interview none the less. As a result, he was fired from his &#8220;job&#8221; (championship fight) and may be removed from the UFC all together! <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mma\/news?slug=ki-iole_ufc_stpierre_diaz_090711\">Please go to http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mma\/news?slug=ki-iole_ufc_stpierre_diaz_090711 for more details. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my main mantras is: selling yourself in interviews is the most important part of landing a job. This took new meaning on MMA&#8217;s (Mixed Martial Arts) highest stage; the UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship)! Nick Diaz, a fighter scheduled for a welterweight championship bout on October 29th, failed to show for not one, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-2033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interview-preparation","tag-interview-preparation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}