Michael Neece is the CEO of Interview Mastery which is a guaranteed preparation service on Interview advice. His article on job interview where we make our self-made assumptions has been rephrased.
According to the writer among too many people he does presentations, there is small number of people who are briefed about interview skills in a job. The amount of lies people tell themselves during the job is amazing itself for the author and according to them that is harmful for their careers.
Most of us are certain about how a good resume could lead you in an interview process, but most of us don't realize the importance of a good interview for grabbing a job. In fact, minimizing the importance of job interview would mean less chances of getting hired unless an exceptionally well interview could only take you on the board.
When economy is going well, there are more job opportunities for candidates so let's say after having six interviews you get a job. Having being better prepared for job interviews would not take to go through six interviews to get a job. Below are some of the incorrect assumptions we make about ourselves before an interview.
1) I am awful in doing my jobs:
This is one of the wrong assumptions being made for a job interview. Giving a job interview is quite different from doing a job somewhere. In other words, set of skills which we require for a job is different from skills used in a job.
2) I am a good communication:
Being a good communicator is appreciated but we have to keep in mind that communication at a job is a unilateral process where we give directions or advice or respond to our daily routine but in a job interview the dimensions for communication are different. Here we may be interviewing to a panel of interviewer and being asked for different sort of job roles and skills based on our profile. Convincing interviewers about our abilities in a unique situation we are put in.
3) I have interviewed many people before:
This is one the assumptions which the interviewer makes about himself, although the skills and nature of vacancy could be unique in every aspect. There are couple of good candidates wrestle in to a particular job offer which then tests interviewer's abilities to evaluate candidates to get the best one out of it. During an interview, a good interviewer and interviewee are like two people involved in a dance, where every one is playing his/her part. When the job applicant has got skills, both of them facilitate each other, and applicant normally gets the offer.
4) I have had many job interviews:
It happens that a candidate who had previously many job interview exercises end up wasting his time with hit and trial methods for improving drawbacks, but doing ineffective interviews would not enable him to improve his interviewing skills a lot.
5) Interviewers have a required set of skills:
It is seen that interviewers all around the world are less capable to ask good questions from candidates. Asking things such "Tell me about your self" or "how do you think you are good for this job" shows the incapability of interviewer as he is unskilled to structure some interesting questions for a candidate.
6) The most qualified people are hired most of the time:
This is one of the assumptions which people make up; where as the reality is quite different. Most qualified people are never gets hired. The reason is who is the most qualified lies from the interviewer's view. This person who has authority to select or reject a candidate has his/her own opinion, assumptions personal bias. Another thing is the pre-requisite that the interviewer is looking for. A specific candidate has been selected because of his specific skills utilized again and again in his career in different organizations.
The central idea of the whole discussion is developing the interview skills. No matter how many interview programs we are registered in, how many interviews we appear in, it's all about using interviewing skills in the interview where it matters most.
Bryan Goldberg is a professional writer who has helped numerous applicants with their resumes, CVs and cover letters.He is a regular contributor to online article directories for instructional articles about resume, CV and cover letter writing.
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