Friday, December 9, 2011

How Much Is This Job Interviews Ignorance Costing You?

By Kenya Blumenfeld


It is not fair, but folks are apt to judge you based on the first impression you make. It might not be the real you, but you have to comply with that too at your job interview. Do what you can to ensure that you make quite a splash on day one; it could seal the job for you.

There are all kinds of people on this earth, and they react in different ways to other people. Your interviewers might be folks who are very sensitive so you might want to understand them in a hurry as you answer the questions that they put to you. It will not be too nice if you have to find out that they are not nice people the hard way. For any job interview, you need a strategy. You strategy should begin from your dressing, and work all the way to your walking out of the interview room when the interview is done. If you are able to plan it all well, you should come out of the interview in bright colors.

You should take some time out before your job interview to pick out the clothes you will be wearing for the occasion. More than that though, you should take time to learn about the company and the values that they hold dear. These are the little factors that will help to prepare you rightly for the event.

You could lose a job simply because you are fidgety at the interview. What have you got to be fidgety about, I ask you? Chances are that you don't even have a clue what that is anyway. So, enough with the fidgeting already. Smile your way through the answers and go home.

You must know that whatever you say at a job interview, they are not likely to take it at face value. Someone will probably do a background check on you, so you want to keep things as close to the truth as you can. Any discrepancies could cost you that one chance.

It is not strange that you should feel uncomfortable when you walk in for a job interview, but whatever the reason for that, you had better be done with it sooner than later. I have friend who would say that you should leave that discomfort at the door and pick it up on your way out, because it has no place in the interview room.




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