| There is nothing I dislike more, than attending a job | | | | trip you up, but to find out about you, and what's more |
| interview. They are a necessary evil, no doubt, but I | | | | fascinating than talking about yourself! |
| have always dreaded them. It seems to me that all | | | | When I answer job interview questions, I try to be calm |
| you do is show that you are good or bad at job | | | | and collected. I have had some success with |
| interviews, and not whether you are good at the job | | | | meditation exercises before going into the interview. |
| you're a candidate for. Some job interviewers | | | | Some people do the much-recommended technique |
| approach the interview very scientifically, reading up on | | | | of imagining the interviewer in his or her underwear. I |
| techniques, psychological profiling and so on. For the | | | | tried this once and got a fit of the giggles. |
| interviewee, you must know how to answer job | | | | Unsurprisingly, I did not get the job. Try to think of it as |
| interview questions. | | | | a conversation between equals, rather than a job |
| A job interview is the art of telling people what you | | | | interview. |
| think they want to hear. Having said that, there must | | | | The worst situation is when you really don't want the |
| be a degree of honesty here. We all exaggerate our | | | | job. In my younger days when getting a job was a |
| experience and skills a bit from time to time, but | | | | case of needing cash quickly, I went for all manner of |
| remember that if you claim to have a four-year track | | | | different positions. When this is the situation, they |
| record of flying passenger airplanes, you will need to | | | | always seem to want you to answer job interview |
| back it up later on. | | | | questions like, why did you choose their particular |
| To answer job interview questions is to walk a thin | | | | company? You have to quickly come up with an |
| tightrope. The questions tend to be designed to find out | | | | answer. Out of all the companies manufacturing ball |
| lots of contrary information. For example, are you a | | | | bearings in the world, why did I choose them? Tough |
| good team player and do you also enjoy working | | | | one. |
| alone? Do you like to lead and are you good at | | | | To answer job interview questions is an art. In the end, |
| following instructions? | | | | the only person you can be is yourself. Trying to be |
| Sometimes, I have been so nervous at job interviews | | | | who they want you to be is hard to sustain, especially |
| that I don't listen properly which make it difficult to | | | | if it's a panel of interviewers peering at you. Each job |
| answer job interview questions at all. In fact, the key is | | | | interview gets easier. Well, it's marginally preferable to |
| to swallow your nerves and listen intently. Otherwise, | | | | going to the dentist. |
| you'll have to wing it. The questions are not there to | | | | |