10 tips to be successful in your job interviews - Part1

1- You have already stepped in

As agency recruiters, we are working under enough pressure from KPIs not to have time to waste.

Same goes for internal recruiters. By networking with talent acquisition specialists, internal/on-site recruiters,  internal recruitment consultants (agency recruiters working as contractors at end users like "implant" or a delegated resource from an RPO).

If you made it to the interview room, you have already come a long way. You’ve ticked most of the boxes. So what could make you fail?

2- Your attitude

Those of us who are used to interviewing have often developed an acute ability to read people. This sense comes with our strong business acumen. You can understand that we are seeking to recognise the potential for success in the candidate we chose to represent.

We are screening your:

- Gestures

- Coherence between your story and what is written on your resume

- Vision for your career

- Self-confidence

- Ability to reveal your potential and “true colours”

3- (Good) recruiters are more about sales than NLP

Our job is to connect a talent with a great career opportunity and recognise the potential of a great fit. This is all about business.

The more talented recruiters I know are great business people, some of whom are even launching their own business.

4- Our job interview questions are to get you lost

Let me give a real-life example: the airport. If you were a terrorist, would you truthfully answer the question, "Are you convicted of terrorism acts?"

Same with our questions.

Sometimes, we weird questions on purpose (turning you back to an experience you have already discussed, trying to make you look stupid by reasserting your lies)…  just to get you lost. In that manner, we can take down your prepared pitch or your defences and gain access to the real person.

I will follow with 6 more tips in my next post, next week

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Author - Kevin Simonnet