Showing posts with label hockey romance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hockey romance. Show all posts

Monday, September 3, 2018

Job Interviews are Changing - #hockey #sportsromance #romcom #99cents @LindaOConnor98

Job hunter

By Linda O’Connor (Guest Blogger)

Have you ever walked out of an interview wishing you could go back and do it over?

Well, maybe you shouldn’t beat yourself up – there are probably more factors than you think influencing the hiring process, and there’s growing evidence questioning the usefulness of the traditional interview process. Professor Jason Dana of the Yale School of Management has done some fascinating research. I caught the podcast of his interview (Ha!) on CBC radio Spark with Nora Young. Prof Dana pointed out that the common “tell me about yourself” open-ended type questions might not be the best predictors for job success. It’s often used, but an interviewer has to be somewhat arrogant to believe that they can accurately assess someone based on their first fleeting impression.

If the purpose of an interview is to determine if a candidate will be the best “fit” for a company, then there has to be well-defined parameters for what that entails. Having some standardization in the interview process is an improvement, but even more useful is asking the candidate to perform a task that is typically part of the job. Assessing skills or having the person work briefly in the job setting, rather than trying to assess personality traits after a short first impression, gives a more accurate measure of the candidate’s ability. Whatever the process, if you’re heading to an interview or an audition, smile, make eye contact, be enthusiastic and confident, and keep in mind that interviews can be just as challenging for the interviewer!

In Beyond the Face-Off, Kelly Danali sails through auditions and doesn’t have any trouble being in the limelight. For Jake Ross, though, it’s a different story…
Kelly Danali has a big personality. She runs a pharmacy by day and lights up the local theatre scene by night. There’s nothing she craves more than a spot in the limelight. Jake Ross is a homegrown hockey star. He’s been traded back to the Clarington Quakes and spends most of his time avoiding the press and hockey-crazed fans.

Kelly wants to curb an alarming trend of drug abuse in local teens, and Jake, with his athleticism and sex appeal, would be the perfect spokesperson. Except there’s one problem – there’s nothing Jake craves more than privacy and solitude.

Jake finds Kelly irresistible and skates around the possibility of falling in love, but is she more attracted to hockey, fame, or him?
There’s more to love…Beyond the Face-Off.

Beyond the Face-Off is only 99cents. Buy it here: 

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07G6XMD6B

About the Author


Award-winning author Linda O’Connor started writing romantic comedies when she needed a creative outlet other than subtly rearranging the displays at a local home décor store. Her books have enjoyed bestseller status. When not writing, she’s a physician at an Urgent Care Clinic. She shares her medical knowledge in fast-paced, well-written, sexy romances – with an unexpected twist. Her favourite prescription to write? Laugh every day. Love every minute.

Linda loves to connect with readers ~


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Thursday, April 26, 2018

My Quirky Trait in Behind the Bench - #MedicalRomance #HockeyRomance #RomCom @LindaOConnor98

Behind the Bench cover

By Linda O’Connor (Guest Blogger)

Lisabet, thank you so much for hosting me today!

As a physician, I’m always concerned (okay completely anal :D) about infection control. I taught my three kids to wash their hands whenever they came home from school, after playing outside, really anytime they walked into the house. We all have separate toothbrush holders, and we each have our own tube of toothpaste. And don’t even get me started on sharing drinks. Infectious mononucleosis, influenza, herpes simplex, even hepatitis A lurk everywhere. So imagine my chagrin when, now that they’re older, they taste-test each other’s beer or share water bottles on the bench when they’re playing hockey!

This crept into my romantic comedy Behind the Bench, the second book of the In the Game Hockey Romance series. Dr. Danni Angelo is the team physician for the local professional hockey team. She’s forever chirping at the players to use their own water bottles. The players tolerate the advice, even appreciate her concern, but they pretty much ignore her. She’s not giving up though – and she’ll add her two cents about the merits of full-face shields while she’s at it.


Behind the Bench (In the Game Hockey Romance series, Book 2)

Dr. Danni Angelo is the team physician for the Clarington Quakes hockey team. She’s worked hard to earn the players’ respect, but the new coach, Trey Mason, is stirring things up, and Danni’s worried her job may be in jeopardy.

Trey finds Danni…distracting. Beauty, brains, and sexy moves on the ice have him uncomfortably attracted. He’s the new guy on the block. He has a reputation to build and a standard to set. The last thing he needs is a complication.

When the team spirals out of control and Danni and Trey get caught up in a drug scandal, things heat up on and off the ice. It’s a whole new game plan…Behind the Bench.

Excerpt

Danni debated for a moment and then took one of the water bottles Dave had just filled. Hopefully Todd Webb wouldn’t miss his. It wasn’t as if they each used their own, she thought with chagrin.

She hustled back to the clinic, ducking around the corners and looking over her shoulder, hoping to avoid Cliff and Dave. When she passed the treatment room, Ben called out to her. “Do you want to come and take a look at this ankle?”

Danni looked at the two drinks in her hands. She’d been hoping to stash them, but she couldn’t just ignore Ben. Resigned, she walked into the treatment room.

Ben looked up and smiled at her. “Thirsty?”

Danni rolled her eyes and didn’t answer. She set the bottles on a counter and went over to the player sitting on the examining table. She chatted with Nate as she did a thorough exam and was satisfied that the ankle was strong enough to play. He could be shifted to a healthy scratch, and would be able to join the practices.

Danni finished up and, taking the bottles, made her way through the dressing room to the clinic. A handful of players were getting ready for the pre-game skate.

“Hey, Doc. That’s my water bottle,” Todd Webb pointed out from across the room.

Danni’s forehead broke out in sweat. “I’m doing an experiment to see if you actually use your own,” she said sardonically. “Good job, Webber.”

He laughed. “That’s okay. I’ll use Veet’s.” He grinned, gesturing to the player sitting nearby.

“I prefer NickNac’s anyway,” Veet said, poking Nick with his stick as he checked the curve on the blade.

“I usually grab Watty’s,” NickNac chimed in, sitting on the bench sipping a Score.

Danni shook her head and shut the clinic door as their laughter filled the air.
Well, she’d had the samples she wanted, but she’d better stick to medicine. She made a terrible spy.

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Behind the Bench is one of 16 medical romances in the Coming in Hot: Rescue Me  collection.





About the Author


Linda O’Connor started writing a few years ago when she needed a creative outlet other than subtly rearranging the displays at the local home décor store. It turns out she loves writing romantic comedies and has a few more stories to tell. When not writing, she’s a physician at an Urgent Care Clinic (well, even when she is writing she’s a physician, and it shows up in her stories :D ). She hangs out at www.lindaoconnor.net.

Laugh every day. Love every minute.






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