Never Say these Five Things in a Job Interview
A lot of candidates go in and they're so desperate to work at a job they'll say, “I'll do anything. It doesn't matter what it is; I'll do anything.”
A lot of candidates go in and they're so desperate to work at a job they'll say, “I'll do anything. It doesn't matter what it is; I'll do anything.”
Panel interview is going to consist of a manager, probably hiring manager, maybe even that person's manager and then a couple of their subordinates; that's usually it. Sometimes, human resources will sit in on this interview, but it just depends. So, anyway, anywhere from three to five people is a panel.
So, what does all this USP stuff have to do with you and interviewing for jobs? Well, I tell you it makes a big difference. You need to know what your USP is. You need to know what makes you unique, what makes you stand out from your competition.
You need to dig deeper. I encourage you to dig deeper and find out inside what it is about this company that attracts you so much. What is it? What do they do? Is it their culture? If it's their culture, what specifically is it about their culture. If it's their products, what is it about those products? You can't just say, “Oh, I like them. They're nice”. You need to dig deeper and to find a real compelling reason about what it is and why you are aligned with this company.
But there's another way; there’s a stronger technique to answering this question, “Why do you want to leave your job?” And it's called the pull technique, but nobody uses it. Nobody even understands that it exists. And if you search on YouTube you probably won't find anybody talking about the pull technique. That's right; you heard it here first.
If you think about it; a job interview, it's not really a natural process. It's just not natural to take somebody and stick them in a room with a couple of other people and have them ask them and probe them with all kinds of questions about things that they've done and experiences and how they would do this and that. It's a very unnatural process. That's why you feel so nervous.
So, they're kind of rude in that sense, and I don't like those kind of employers or interviewers. I don't think they're intentionally being rude, but they're kind of just ignorant of the fact that someone put a lot of time into something. They deserve a little bit more than silence. I mean, I think so anyway.
when you blend in, you look like everybody else. When you go in there into the interview and you say all the same things that everybody else is saying, you answer all the questions in the same corporate way that everybody else is doing it.
One of the first things an employer is going to do is they are going to evaluate whether you are like minded, whether your values are the same, whether your principles are the same as theirs, whether they think you're going to fit into their culture.