| Your first real job interview can be a terrifying | | | | to a job interview. Be open and honest about your |
| experience. Interviewees stress themselves out over | | | | work experience but do not feel like you must be |
| what to wear and especially what to say. My | | | | modest. Show them that you are a rare find who has |
| experiences with job interviews have taught me not | | | | qualities they will not find in anyone else. I feel more |
| too take them too seriously. My first job interview after | | | | comfortable when I can throw in a bit of humor into a |
| graduating college was with an insurance agency for a | | | | job interview. Without being too casual or laid back, I |
| position that I was not at all interested in. Some people | | | | like to ease myself into the interview and help give a |
| would consider going a complete waste of time but | | | | more human feel to the experience. |
| knowing that I would never take the position allowed | | | | It is easy for a job interview to feel forced and |
| me to approach the job interview as a learning | | | | unnatural and I find that a touch of humor can ease |
| experience. | | | | those feelings. I think that it is very important to be |
| I used that first interview to get a better idea of what | | | | yourself in an interview. You would not want to have |
| to say and hone in on what employers were looking | | | | to keep up a façade once you have the job and |
| for. I did go out and get myself a great job interview | | | | you want the employer to know what kind of person |
| outfit and I went in there with all the confidence in the | | | | they are really hiring. |
| world. One way to communicate your confidence to | | | | Being yourself in a job interview will ensure that you |
| the interviewer is to give them a good, strong | | | | end up in the right place and working at the right place |
| handshake. Where I come from, handshakes are a | | | | makes all the difference in the world. The more natural |
| tradition when meeting a new person. Look the | | | | and honest you are the better. I like to really put myself |
| employer in the eye and give them a firm hand. This is | | | | out there because I figure that it is important that they |
| a quick and simple way to assert yourself as a | | | | like me for who I am so that there is no confusion later |
| confident and self-assured applicant. | | | | as to what they can expect from me and what |
| Always bring a copy of your current resume with you | | | | compromises I am likely to make. |