To Prevent Interview Pitfalls

Here are experts' tips on what not to say and do.

Many are nervous during a job interview, it is quite common, and the prospective employer usually have understanding for it. However, it is worse if nervousness causes chatting away about both the one and the other. First impressions mean everything during a job interview, and you do not have much time to make it right, if you've started to burn bridges.

I would not opened the interview by talking about the salary. Do not start with mass claims, they take control without even being passive, telling career guidance in Manus Motivation Group, Mette Manus, the Student Centre.

Do not go into the private affairs:

It can also be devastating if you enter matters of a private nature, this is not your potential employer interested in.

There's something about this being personal but not private. Do not talk about private things, such as entering in your private feelings. Reply to what they ask about, be honest and open, but do not go into details, continuing career mentor.

Do not be unprepared:

To come unprepared for a job interview, nor is it something Manus recommend.

Make sure you understand the business, and did not come with questions like: "What are you doing?". Prepare also some questions that show interest, that you are prepared and curious, says Manus further.

If you really really want at work as you are interviewing for, this will also be felt well.

You must have a mind at work, be assertive and motivated. If it stands between you and another, which is just as good, it is the one that seems most motivated for the job, who's going to get it.

Stay away from cliché goods:

A standard question in an interview situation is whether you can list your strengths and weaknesses. Many are afraid that weaknesses can be perceived negatively and runs on with phrases like: "I am a hard worker and is too poor to say no." Such answers will not impress the interviewing you.

To Prevent Interview Pitfalls

Avoid cliches. Talk nor about things you've done wrong, wrong or lack of education, advises Manus.

If you are asked if you briefly tell about yourself, this is a nice chance to bring out aspects of yourself that are not necessarily all about job performance.

If you get five minutes to present yourself as a person, it
not wise to go straight on job performance, this emerges gradually. Tell us about your hobbies. Like parachute, tell about it, backpacked you around the world as youth or working at an orphanage in Nepal, talking about it. It is also important that the prospective employer gets the impression that you are a fun person to be with.

Not really desperate:

Magnus points out that it is important for you as interviewee to not seem desperate for jobs.

Think of yourself as a brand to sell into. Suppose you make the employer a favor by working there and that they are the ones who are lucky to get you.

Do not talk disparagingly of ex-boss:

Career Coaching and Managing Director of Smart career, 
have good experience with giving people Career, she also has some great tips on how not to behave in an interview.

Do not say anything negative about your former employer. One should not signal that you want to escape from something but to something. It's about real motivated and enthused in relation to the job you interviewed for .

Avoid digressions:

That conversation can suddenly run wild until you suddenly can not remember what one really talked about, is also a pitfall.

One should be very conscious of responding to what is being asked. Do not go off on associative stories and digressions. And here, I know that one sinned much, but it shows that you are not focused, she continues.

A limp handshake, would also be detrimental for first impression.

To greet each other, the first one does, one should not have a limp handshake. It goes back at work and motivation to work. Show foroverlenthet and you want something, a limp handshake shows the opposite.

Not having limp body language:

She also warns against having a limp body language.

Do not sit leaning back with a stooped posture, have neither eyes fixed down at the table, this shows insecurity.

This is not to say or do during the interview:

✔ Greet with a limp handshake

✔ Chatting about wages and demands

✔ Talk about things of a personal nature

✔ Getting unprepared for the interview

✔ Talk about things you've done wrong or wrong

✔ Chatting about your lack of education

✔ Do not show that you do not really want at work

✔ Answer questions by dragging start digressions or tell long stories

✔ Respond with clichés (especially questions about strengths and weaknesses)

✔ Not gazing down at the table, this shows that you are insecure