And a fine piece for all! I thought it was very good, and useful, You can only be a LeoStrong Eagle wrote:I've hired more than 200 people in my career, so here's my personal observations.
1. Confidence is the utmost important characteristic. When you are finally invited into the office for an interview, do you walk in looking timid, not sure what is going to happen next, or do you stride confidently towards the desk, make eye contact, and extend your hand for a handshake before the interviewer has time to get up? Trust me... lasting impressions are made in the first 20 seconds and if you come across as a mouse, the rest of the interview won't matter much. Companies want confident people who will take action.
2. Answer questions with a "yes" or a "no" only and you are doomed. Use each question to expand upon your strengths. Tell stories of what you have accomplished. Give the interviewer a sense of what you are. Nothing worse for an interviewer to hear nothing but yes and no. You will never get hired and the interview will be very short. No way to know who you are.
3. Watch your body language. If you slouch out, you look too comfortable and... well... lazy. Don't be stiff, either. Be comfortable... confident. Make eye contact. Lean forward slightly to show interest. Use your hands to make a point but not to the extreme. Don't take notes.
4. Know something of the company. Don't ask what the company offers you... not on the first interview... instead, ask what the company's problems are and why they want to hire you. Then make up a solution on the spot. Doesn't have to be grand, or even right, but you show two things... you care for the company and its problems, and you can create solutions.
5. Be honest. If you don't know, just say so. Emphasize your strengths, use your weaknesses and failures as teaching pieces... what did you learn from them.
6. Ask lots of questions. The interview is supposed to be about you, but I guarantee lots on interviewers can be so easily side tracked. They will talk about everything, and when they are through, they think you are cool because you were confident, even though they didn't actually learn anything about you. Caution: This could be a sign that the company is not very professional.
7. Have an attitude that you don't give a shit about getting the job. If you come in on your hands and knees begging, then you'll look like a beggar. If you come in as though they need you more than you need them (played conservatively, of course), then you are perceived as a person that is self starting and confident.
OK.. that's my contribution. Good luck.
) Well, there could be circumstances where you might have to grovel... perhaps the last job in town with no hope of another. It just seems to me that if you grovel you end up getting hired by someone who likes peopl to grovel.(I found it very interesting that you say not to grovel for the job. Always seem to do the opposite... )
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You are doing a fine job over here too, SE, for speaking your mind and letting us know where we stand with you and with each otherStrong Eagle wrote:Yes, yes... I would have made such a fine Oracle at Delphi... born 2500 years too late, I guess.The Authority has spoken
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