Introduction: The Awful Truth about Interviewing
The interview. The
dreaded interview. The pivotal moment when every subtle action, word and gesture will have a profound impact on your future. It’s the time when you must strive to be your absolute best…the most challenging 30 to 60 minutes of your career…and when it’s over you will be able to take a deep sigh of relief. Right?
Wrong! While the interview may appear to be a highly formalized process, consider for a moment the point of the process in the first place:
For the employer: it is their opportunity to become acquainted with you and to discern for themselves if you possess the capacity to meet their organization’s needs.
For you: it is an opportunity for you to share with another the
best of who you are,and what you offer
The fact is that in the business world, this process is going on perpetually. What often makes people so nervous about the “job interview” setting (when I refer to people, I mean both the interviewer as well as the interviewee) is that this dynamic is brought to the surface and intensified
So what does this mean for you? If the prospect of being highly scrutinized for a period of 30 to 60 minutes makes you uncomfortable, realize first that in the world of work,
you are always being scrutinized.
In other words, get used to it! In fact, anticipate it! You will find yourself making many more positive impressions than you ever expected.
Before we embark on this “last guide” to interviewing you will ever need, there is one point that I feel must be made above all else. There are two sides to approaching this, and the one that is most often touted in books and articles is the “performance” side. We are always hearing the importance about how one “performs” in a job interview.
While there is validity in this perspective, we must remember that even though your performance in an interview is very important, it is NOT an “act.” You are not going up on stage to pretend to be someone or something that you are not.
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