You must not be desperate when looking for a job. You might need money to survive, but definitely, you do not need the job. So when in an interview, just remember that. I read this somewhere, last night. It's wasn't my first time coming across this thinking, but it was refreshing.
You are not desperate for that one job. So do not go into the interview with an air of neediness. You must remember that there are still plenty of jobs out there if you do not get this one. They, the company, need to get the vacancy filled, but you do not need to get that job. Go in there, with your head strut high, full of confidence, and believe. Yes, believe that you, of course, are able to handle that job.
Your aim is to make them understand that you are the right person for that spot. Then, once that is done, do not rest on your laurels, but get to know how you can fit into their corporation, adapt to their work culture and accept their working habits, and understand their structures and system. The benefits will come will match you, if the company's ways match you. This is most definitely the case, as by then, it would be obvious that you both are singing the same tune.
I blew a job interview, just earlier last month. It was my only interview. As sad as it was, I learned, coming off reading last night, that perhaps I was not in the best frame of mind. Doing a little quickie of a post mortem, I think I had let to put myself in a needy frame of mind, not asking the right questions and worse, not answering the questions posed honestly. I answered them in a way that I thought the interviewees would like to hear. I left them to hire me, not me choosing them.
Doing that did not help me at all because throughout the interview, I believed that I emitted a aura of unbelievability saying what I said. I was grinning alot, with my mouth. Not smiling, with my eyes. Looking back, remembering what I said, how I said them, it was totally a dishonest crap. Even I saw through my sloppily-veiled bluff. I guess, what made it worse was I could speak fluently, making it sound even more cheesy.
I had thought I need that job, or needed to be in a job, get back to be part of the mainstream. Perhaps, I was letting the perceptions of others or what I thought others had of me, get into the better of my judgment. It was my mistake, but a lesson well-learned, hopefully.
Getting a job would be good now. I have no concrete plans yet. However, the neediness feeling is gone, the pressures off. I'm no longer in the state similiar to that of a pressure cooker. It doesn't matter what others say or do or comment. I'll get the job that I'm looking for, bringing me heading towards my dream. I wish, gratefully.
Till then, I'll continue honing my writing skills and reading as much as I can, and dabble into a little art and learn more about the technicalities of photography and try as best as I can to resist abusing linguistics.
You are not desperate for that one job. So do not go into the interview with an air of neediness. You must remember that there are still plenty of jobs out there if you do not get this one. They, the company, need to get the vacancy filled, but you do not need to get that job. Go in there, with your head strut high, full of confidence, and believe. Yes, believe that you, of course, are able to handle that job.
Your aim is to make them understand that you are the right person for that spot. Then, once that is done, do not rest on your laurels, but get to know how you can fit into their corporation, adapt to their work culture and accept their working habits, and understand their structures and system. The benefits will come will match you, if the company's ways match you. This is most definitely the case, as by then, it would be obvious that you both are singing the same tune.
I blew a job interview, just earlier last month. It was my only interview. As sad as it was, I learned, coming off reading last night, that perhaps I was not in the best frame of mind. Doing a little quickie of a post mortem, I think I had let to put myself in a needy frame of mind, not asking the right questions and worse, not answering the questions posed honestly. I answered them in a way that I thought the interviewees would like to hear. I left them to hire me, not me choosing them.
Doing that did not help me at all because throughout the interview, I believed that I emitted a aura of unbelievability saying what I said. I was grinning alot, with my mouth. Not smiling, with my eyes. Looking back, remembering what I said, how I said them, it was totally a dishonest crap. Even I saw through my sloppily-veiled bluff. I guess, what made it worse was I could speak fluently, making it sound even more cheesy.
I had thought I need that job, or needed to be in a job, get back to be part of the mainstream. Perhaps, I was letting the perceptions of others or what I thought others had of me, get into the better of my judgment. It was my mistake, but a lesson well-learned, hopefully.
Getting a job would be good now. I have no concrete plans yet. However, the neediness feeling is gone, the pressures off. I'm no longer in the state similiar to that of a pressure cooker. It doesn't matter what others say or do or comment. I'll get the job that I'm looking for, bringing me heading towards my dream. I wish, gratefully.
Till then, I'll continue honing my writing skills and reading as much as I can, and dabble into a little art and learn more about the technicalities of photography and try as best as I can to resist abusing linguistics.
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