3 Things NOT To Do To P*** Off Your Interviewer

We’ve all given interviews at some point in our lives, haven’t we? We’ve spent a considerable amount of time fretting about it, doing internet search about the company who’s looking forward to meeting us, sometimes exchanging a dozen or so emails with the recruiter to figure out what we should expect at the interview, and sometimes we even ask our friends to help us out with the answers to some of the regular questions. 

1. Don't ever get someone else to write your resume - as lousy as you think you may be at writing a resume, you may have slept in your communication class and missed the whole lecture on an effective resume for a great job, DO NOT have someone else write it. Every time a recruiter finds discrepancies on your resume and what you say, you lose points in the interview. Although the interviewer may not comment on it but they can pick up very easily when a resume was self-written and when it was not. Here’s how the find out: (a) They’ll ask you directly or indirectly about your objectives and if they have no similarity to what’s on your resume, negative points! (b) They’ll ask you about your hobbies - yes you’ve written “reading” on the top but the last time you read a book was for your board exams when literature was a compulsory subject. Uh-huh doesn’t do well with an interviewer sorry!

2. Don’t ever start with “My name is…” when the interviewer asks you to tell them about yourself. One of the standard question that nearly all interviewers ask or slight variations of the same is “tell us about yourself” and when a question as Don’t ever start with “My name is…” when the interviewer asks you to tell them about yourself. One of the standard question that nearly all interviewers ask or slight variations of the same is “tell us about yourself” and when a question as regular as that is answered with a my name is… really it requires a lot of self-control for a recruiter to keep a straight face to ignore that. Your name is on the resume; when the interviewer is asking about you they don’t’ want an essay on myself, they want to know about you, so let’s not begin with my name is. as that is answered with a my name is… really it requires a lot of self-control for a recruiter to keep a straight face to ignore that. Your name is on the resume; when the interviewer is asking about you they don’t’ want an essay on myself, they want to know about you, so let’s not begin with my name is. 

3. Don’t ever beg for the job - as much as you may be in desperate need of the job, and you would really like that job more than anything else, begging for it will not make you get it. In fact, you’re more likely to get a job if you come with an attitude to the interviewer’s office of equality. Like how they can select or reject you, you can do the same to them, you can choose not to work for them if they decide to hire you, so it’s not like they have the upper hand just remember that. Of course that doesn’t mean you walk in with arrogance because then you’ll definitely not get hired. Interviews are two way, you can judge the interviewer and the company you are interviewing at just as much as they are judging you. In the end this interview will be a success if both parties agree to the same terms so they’re no better than you, and you’re no better than them. Just remember you’re in control of this situation as much as they are. 

Interviews are market places to buy and sell, you sell your skills while the company who is buying your services will sell their company image and brand to you, if both of you find it profitable only then will you get in the contract, so it doesn’t do well at all if you oversell yourself or miscommunicate to your interviewer, you’ll lose trust long before you can gain it and that means you may just have lost your chance at a great job too.