Most of us have been taught a lot of nonsense about job interviews.
We think that our goal as a candidate on a job interview is to please and impress the interviewer – to make them like us.
To do this, we can unintentionally spend most of our energy at the interview working to make the interviewer see that we really, really, really want the job.
But it’s just an interview – how would you know whether or not you want the job?
You need to gather information in the interview and then think about it.
Not every employer or every hiring manager deserves you.
Some of them would not see your talent, no matter how hard you might try to make it clear.
You are interviewing the interviewer as much as they are interviewing you.
Your goal on job interviews is to get more and more comfortable so that more and more of your brilliance, spark and wit come out in interview conversations.
Don’t be shy about asking your friends to mock-interview you.
Practice answering interview questions with your cat or with yourself.
Practice asking questions, too.
At its best, a job interview is a conversation between two people whose brains are both working.
You don’t want to fall asleep and give rote, unconsidered and uninteresting answers to
job interview questions and you don’t want the interviewer to fall asleep, either.
The more you are present in the room – fully there, tuned in and focusing on your own needs as much as the needs of the employer – the better.
If interviewers are tripping you up and slowing down your job search, sign up here for my Interviewing Boot Camp online course!
I want to help you have stronger, more confident job interviews to get the job you deserve!
