Over the past year or so, I have ventured into interviewing at my employer – yes, that means me! And I want to be open and transparent with you about my experience on both sides of the table.
Experience has taught me many invaluable lessons. Interviews now seem much different to me and here are 10 tips I want to offer to help make sure your next one goes off without a hitch!
Before I offer advice and observations, keep in mind that I work at a desk job for a Fortune 500 company as a benchmark. Although these tips should work in any job field, the importance of each tip may differ – use what seems relevant but leave out anything unnecessary. Here are my 10 best interview tips, given my experience:
1. Your Personality Is Far More Valuable than Your Resume
Your resume might get you through recruitment, but once it comes time for interviews, your interviewers care most about how well you connect with each one individually. Do not attempt to present yourself as someone you aren’t by creating an overly extrovert persona; that will become apparent during an interview if that isn’t who you really are. Be yourself; they want to see the real you!
However, if the real you isn’t good enough for the job in question, perhaps that role wasn’t right for you to begin with. If you need to fake your way in somewhere, chances are it won’t last very long and it would do both parties more good to remain genuine in their approach to hiring and employment.
Experiences that reveal who you really are should be highlighted; be they positive characteristics or mistakes you’ve learned from.
Half an hour is simply not enough time to form an intimate connection with anyone; your goal should be to leave the interviewer with the impression they know YOU better than any of the other candidates. We interviewers are humans – we want to find people we can connect with so we feel as though working with them would bring similar satisfaction and enjoyment.
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