What Makes the Interview Process So Difficult? | JobSearchTV.com
By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
This one is an easy one. What makes up the interview process so difficult?
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“What makes the interviewing process so difficult,” is the question for today. To me, it’s something very easy. At least easy to answer that. You see, the skills didn’t to find the job are different than the skills needed to do a job. That seems obvious, but let’s take it a step further.
You can talk about what you’ve done in glowing detail. However, finding a job is different. There is different sequencing to interview questions. So, yes, you know the going to ask you, “Tell me about yourself.” But you never practiced in answer to it. And, once you’ve heard your answer, you probably groaned because you think it’s awful.
So why don’t you practice?
Because you act foolishly. You get lazy. You think if you just regurgitate a bunch of things that is enough to get hired when obviously it isn’t.
What makes it difficult is lack of preparedness because, for any skill, the more you prepare the more effective you are. I’m going to repeat that.
The more you prepare, the more you practice, the more effective you are.
Small Mistakes, Big Consequences
If you practice interviewing, working with someone who you partner up with were you give them series of questions to ask you, or you work with a coach and give them series of questions to ask you, your interviewing is going to prove a lot, especially if a coach.is good.
I was working with someone today, as a matter fact, resin interview, that is really excited about tomorrow. When I coach them last week, we spoke about doing a practice interview today. His answers were okay at best , but there was no excitement to them and his answers were not crisp. They were kind of sloppy, as a matter fact. What we need to do is listen to the words come out of her mouth. Thus, you record your answers and listen to them. It’s not about your voice tone. It’s about how you tell the story that starts making a difference.
For this person, they were okay at best.. But people get hired for 2 reasons – – 1 is that they are competent and the 2nd is because someone likes them personally and is willing to give them a chance. Likability was missing here just like it is with most people I interview. They just don’t let their personalities show enough for people to engage with them. When you think about it, for job hunters, there are a lot of talented people who do what you do.
For college graduates (this may be more obvious), there are a lot of people with good grades who have gotten great internships. That is been the model for college grads for the last 5 or 6 years. So why should they pick you?
The answer is ultimately, your personality and how fits into their organization and whether or not they like you are not. If you go for serious/professional mode, likability disappears of the equation.
For everyone, recent grad/adult worker, you have to let your personality come through. Otherwise, you just another interview clothes who is out there trying to show that there competent and struggling to do so.
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