Tips to Ace the Job Interview:
Passing It in Flying Colours .. cont part 3
Job Interview Tip # 6:Have a positive attitude
Whether you have a positive attitude or otherwise, will show during job interviews. Especially if you will be with an experienced job interviewer, your personality can easily be read. The ‘true you’ would be transparent, and hoping to hide behind your flowery words would be of no use.
While this may require quite a degree of personal change, it is only but healthy for you and for those who you will eventually work with if you have a positive attitude. The dynamics of a group environment would be ideal with members who are optimistic, and works their best to achieve the group’s objectives.
Having a positive attitude may require some time – especially if you have been pessimistic most of your life. But if you keep at it – you’ll succeed little by little and step by step. The important thing is that you are improving at each step of the way. And mind you – even a slight improvement will show and can do well to give the right impression to the interviewer.
Job Interview Tip # 7:Stay calm.
Arrive 15 to 20 minutes early before the actual interview time. This will ensure you will not be gasping for breath in front of your interviewer as you were hurrying your way up to the office.
And during the interview, listen well to the interviewer’s questions and get the main concept of his question and answer that point. Stay relaxed and concentrate well. Though you may feel the pressure for badly wanting the job, it will be to your disadvantage if you allow your feelings to get the best of you.
Staying calm will allow you to focus. You will be more alert to the questions thrown at you, and you will be able to give the right answers to these. Find comfort in the thought that you are doing your best, and with some stroke of luck – and hopefully with some divine intervention, you may just get the job. Whatever thought that relaxes you, find it and dwell on this.
Job Interview Tip # 8:Be Honest.
In all things, be honest. In job interviews, it will do you no good to mislead your potential employer. While you may succeed in getting hired, you will still be subjected to job evaluations that would eventually show how poor a hire you are. Your immediate boss may find it insulting and will end your stay with cause.
Be truthful with regards to your strengths and weaknesses. Be proud about your strengths and strong points, but don’t be shy to tell your weaknesses. We all have weaknesses, who doesn’t?
Even big-time CEOs have some weaknesses. What makes them so successful though is the fact that they concentrate on their core strengths, and delegate those areas where they lag behind to a more effective staff which have these as their expertise. They also make an effort to reinforce their weak areas, as a well-rounded executive can always make better decisions.
So again, you can’t go wrong with honesty. You need not hide so much during job interviews, and you will be consistent will all your answers. It will also be a plus factor for being honest, and a wise prospective will employer will notice that and value you for it.
Continued: Job Interview Tip # 9: Express your eagerness to learn and the willingness to be trained
