Job Seekers & Career Transition
Successful Interviews Every Time
Do you ever feel frustrated that you are not putting yourself across to the very best of your ability in interviews? I wrote the first edition of this book because in my job as an interviewer on behalf of companies big and small, I have seen too many candidates who were just not doing themselves justice.
And it is always a shame because in most cases it is something that they could quite easily resolve.
Interviews come in all shapes and sizes. There could be just a single interviewer or a panel of interviewers. You might be put at your ease and asked a handful of straightforward questions.
Or you might be subjected to a traumatic interview designed to wear you down.
You might be ready for just one interview lasting a couple of hours, but what if you are faced with a dozen interviews each lasting an hour? And what if you are given a case study interview, a presentation to prepare, or even a group discussion to contend with?
Why A Grade Students Work for C Grade Students
School is a great experience for some children. For others, school is the worst
experience of their lives.
Every child has a genius. Unfortunately, their genius may not be recognized by
the educational system. Their genius may even be crushed.
Thomas Edison, one of the great geniuses of modern times, was labeled
“addled” by his first teacher. Addled means “mixed up or confused.” He never
finished school, and instead became an inventor and an entrepreneur.
The company he founded, known today as General Electric, creates products that
have changed the world. A few of Edison’s early projects were the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb.
Albert Einstein also failed to impress his teachers. From elementary school
through college, his teachers thought he was lazy, sloppy, and insubordinate.
Most of his teachers said, “He will not amount to anything.” Yet Einstein
became one of the most influential scientists in history.
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Fearless Interviewing
Why Are Interviews So Scary?
Have you ever felt jittery before an interview? Nervous or even terrified?
Have you ever wished you had answered a question differently or negotiated your salary more skillfully?
Do you panic when you imagine the possibility of “failure”? Do you just
want to make sure you get it right the first time?
Let’s face it. Interviews are not like normal conversations.
Being interviewed can be scary, even for ordinarily outgoing people.
When you’re sitting in the hot seat, the interviewer is an authority figure, and he or she has all or most of the power in the
interview.
Guess what? Studies show that more than 60 percent of interviewers have never been trained in the task of interviewing.
Most of these managers report that they feel “nervous, anxious,
confused, stressed” and even “incompetent” when taking on the
responsibility of conducting a job interview.
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