You Never Know Who Makes a Difference in Your Search | JobSearchTV.com

You Never Know Who Makes a Difference in Your Search | JobSearchTV.com

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter shares a few stories to explain why you should treat everyone like young royalty who you meet on an interview.

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Every once in a while, I speak with someone from a networking group or social services agency that provides advice and coaching for job hunters.  I had a conversation with someone from an agency that provides four-week job coaching in job training services.  There really the story to me that you thought was real important for me to share with you.

They sent someone out for an interview who did very well, they were about to get hired.  The owner of the firm comes out, is enthusiastic about the candidate and walks over to the receptionist and asks, “So, what did you think?  I’m planning on hiring her!”

The receptionist told him, “Hmmmm, you really shouldn’t.”

“Why is that?”

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The receptionist told him about how rude the candidate was.  I have heard this many times before.  I’m from the New York area in the classic story from days of old on Wall Street was bad the bigwigs at the investment banks would ask the man who shining their shoes it would ask him for advice about someone they had met.  They want to know how he had been treated recently by this person because they want to hire people who are not only capable but considerate and a little bit humble.  I know that may be a little hard to imagine a lost these days, but this is to happen and is the point of the story.

You never know who is involved with the hiring decision.  You never know whether the person in the reception area is going to be offended by remark you made, by the disregard for them as a human being, are you treating them as though you are more important and mightier than them.

Keep your “attitude” to yourself.  Yes, you are focused on delivering a great interview, but everyone, EVERYONE is a part of the process

I remember one client am I would find people in for interviews.  Invariably, they would asked the driver who would pick people up at the airport for his input (yes, he was generally a “him” who was the driver).  They would ask him for his input about how he was treated by them.  Or they rude or discourteous to him.  Whether they spoke to him in the car or completely disregarded them as being a nonentity.

You never know.  You just never know who is going to be involved in that decision.  Treat every last 1 of them as though they were Prince George of England, small royalty who seem so important to everyone.

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ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER

Jeff 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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