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9 Ways Job Hunters Sabotage Their Job Interviews

I worked in recruiting for many years and filled many positions with companies of all sizes in the United States. Some of the companies I recruited for would report back to me about some of the ways job hunters would actively sabotage their job search.

 

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Here are 9 ways people sabotage their job interviews:
1. The job seeker is too anxious. They are worried that the job interview will go badly and they are going to look like they are not qualified. Their nervousness makes the interviewer anxious and doesn’t inspire confidence that they are the solution to what they need.

2. They are not prepared. An interview is the most important step in the job search process. You must be prepared to answer the right questions

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AND be able to ask questions that suggest curiosity and interest. If you are not prepared, they will politely smile and tell you that they have a few more people to speak with and they will get back to you. Usually, that really means they will be getting back to you with a rejection.

3. Watch out for body language that says ‘I don’t want this job.’ [In an interview, people tend to lean back and keep their hands still.
4. They make mistakes. No one is perfect. I have interviewed job seekers who pronounced their o’s as i’s, who didn’t shake my hand when I offered, and who had a few too many typos in their résumé.Not all of these mistakes would have caused me to reject them. Too many of them did.

 

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5. They don’t ask enough questions or any questions. You are supposed to ask questions to show that you are curious and interested in the position and the company. They become turned off to you when you don’t seem to care enough to ask questions.
6. You don’t show up on time. If you are running a few minutes late, that is fine. If you are 15 minutes late, that is a sign that you don’t care enough to be on time. If you don’t call or message them that you are running late, make apologies and explain the delay, you shot yourself in the foot.
7. You don’t show enough interest. This is the most important thing you can do in an interview. If a hiring manager doesn’t think you care about the job, they will wonder why you want to work for them. Showing interest shouldn’t across as staring intently at them as though you are boring a hole in them. Showing interest should be done casually, as though you are talking to a good friend. It is expressed in your eyes, words and facial expression.

8. You don’t dress for the job interview. If you show up in a suit and tie, you look like you are in the wrong job and that you are trying to impress them. The opposite is also true.

9. Your certainty that you know how to interview well is a lie you tell yourself. You haven’t gotten every job you were qualified for in the past but because you were eventually hired, the lie you tell yourself is expressed as not practicing or rehearsing how to answer questions. Great athletes practice. Great entertainers rehearse. When you go on an interview and haven’t practiced, you are acting like an amateur. Act like a professional
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Jeff Altman, The Big Game HunterJeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter is a coach who worked as a recruiter for what seems like one hundred years. His work involves career coaching, as well as executive job search coaching, job coaching, and interview coaching. He is the host of “No BS Job Search Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for job search with over 2300 episodes.

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