Job Interviews For Dummies by Joyce Lain Kennedy

Author:Joyce Lain Kennedy
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2011-11-22T16:00:00+00:00

Anticipating Interview Trapdoors

No matter how well you’re doing as you sail through an interview, certain things can throw you off balance when you’re not forewarned. Rehearse in your mind how you would handle the situations in the upcoming sections.

Disruptions

As you rehearse, keep in mind that not everything that happens during the interview is related to you. Your meeting may be interrupted by a ringing phone, the interviewer’s coworkers, or even the interviewer’s emergency needs. Add the factor of interview interference to your mock drills.

Because the show must go on, find language to politely overlook these interruptions with patient concentration. Practice keeping a tab on what you’re discussing between disruptions, in case the interviewer doesn’t.

Silent treatment

Interviewers sometimes use silence strategically. Moments of silence are intended to get candidates to answer questions more fully — and even to get them to blurt out harmful information they had no intention of revealing.

Instead of concentrating on your discomfort during these silences, recognize the technique. Either wait out the silence until the interviewer speaks or fill it with a well-chosen question (see Chapter 11) that you have tucked up your sleeve. Don’t bite on the silent treatment ploy, panic, and spill information that doesn’t advance your cause. Don’t run your mouth for no reason.

Turning the tables, you can use your own silence strategy to encourage the interviewer to elaborate or to show that you’re carefully considering issues under discussion.

Take One . . . Take Two . . . Take Three . . .

Practice your scenes until they feel right, until they feel spontaneous. Rehearsing gives you the power to become a confident communicator with the gift of presence. No more nervousness, no more zoning out. No more undercutting body language. Your butterflies fly in formation.

Tell me why I care

“So what?” “Who cares?” “What good does your past accomplishment do me?” This kind of question may be unspoken, but it’s lying in ambush deep in every employer’s mind. Each time you mention a previous job duty or accomplishment, pretend the employer is really thinking, “What does this all mean for my benefit? Will it make money? Save money? Grow my company’s market reach? What? Tell me why I care.” Rehearse telling me why I care and make the sale!

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