How You Really Sound in Job Interviews | Fast Company
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- čas přidán 13. 01. 2015
- Watch this intensely squirmy video to discover why you aren't getting hired-and what you can do about it.
You may have thought you were brilliantly outlining all the reasons you are the perfect candidate for a job in your last interview, but what the HR rep heard was you mumbling something about revenue... synergy...and elevators?! Watch the above video for more cringe-inducing reminders that what you say is not always what other people hear.
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Wow, this is made by an HR Psycho, who gives the right to himself to ask cliche questions but doesn't want to hear the normal answers for them.
Half of the answers these people are giving are not something that anyone with a brain would say at a job interview. The other half are actual answers to cliched questions. As a hiring manager, I've hired many people who give similar answers to some of these. I think what's mostly wrong with today's HR-obsessed world is the fact that we want perfection from these candidates who are 1) nervous and 2) clearly trying to give you the right answers. If you post a position for a company that stresses a "team environment" and then you ask someone "why should we hire you " You're almost begging them to say "I'm a team player". Yea it might be cliched but would you rather them tell you that they don't have any skills. Obviously they recognize the fact that your workplace is a group setting and that having strong interpersonal skills would probably benefit them. I find this video upsetting and misleading.
I find it entirely appropriate to ask about things such as health care and vacation. These are important factors, which should be taken into consideration when considering a job. Indeed, I would find it a warning sign if the interviewer didn't bring it up during the interview, without me asking.
Just be yourself, and if they don't hire you, you don't belong there.
If you ask a clichéd question you should expect a clichéd answer.
It's entirely appropriate to ask about benefits such as medical insurance. As someone with a chronic illness medical insurance is incredibly important to me. I value being as healthy as possible to provide the best work to an employer. "I want you to pay for my health care" Yes, actually I do as a form of compensation and I may take that into account when negotiating an offer. I want to know that the company values my health as it means better work from me. It's an exchange. Also Cholera is an acute illness that kills if untreated in a matter of hours.. perhaps you meant something like Chron's disease which is a chronic illness. And if your employer is seriously thinking negatively about that question, then that is not an employer I want to work for.
If you ask cliche questions, you get cliche answers. There are so many interview prep books are out there, and people have been reading them, so their answers to common questions will be more or less the same. Also, asking people to bring a copy of the resume?!!!! Wow, there can be so many questions a candidate can ask about this. What happened to the digital copy? Do they keep records of employees by paper still? How do they use technologies there? To be fair, there needs to be a similar video about the interviewers.
Next time, do a video on "what your witchdoctor thinks when you describe your symptoms". Hiring is one of the most ridiculous branches of business. Virtually no studies exist to support the song-and-dance routines that employers put candidates through. The whole area is rife with cargo-cult thinking, circular reasoning, and cognitive bias.
Anyone who walks away from this video saying "ah, right, I shouldn't take calls during my interviews - great advice," then I'm sorry, but even this video won't improve your chances.
Job interviews today have become so dehumanising.
Tip:
Print your own damn copy of my resume. This isn't 1995.
This is why i hate office jobs. Condescending middle management that will despise you no matter how tactful your answer is.
Actually the sad part is of lot of these same questions are still asked today and it amazes me when someone actually has really interesting job interview questions to ask.
Is this a video on how narcissistic people see other people?
Well wtf am I supposed to say then? Being blatantly honest doesn't sit right with people.
wow. I'm definately in the wrong business. How much fun I would have putting this together. WELL DONE!
Is there a video with the right answers to these questions? I do get the point of the video. I would just like to see the advice. I find job interviews very difficult. Like you never know what tiny little thing will get to one interviewer, but not to another.
There goes any chance of me getting a job. Thanks!
this made my anxiety worse.