How to behave properly during an interview in order to get a dream job, which recruiters and managers are often silent about and how to find out complete information about the offered vacancy, says a headhunter with a considerable experience and the owner of a recruitment agency.
Meet by clothes - relevant for applicants
There are some important things that managers and personnel officers focus on, but applicants do not know about. For example, in addition to professional skills, career success is associated with appearance, social skills and the ability to interact with colleagues and managers.
Sociability wins
This means that when choosing candidates, for example, among several students of approximately the same qualifications, the employer pays attention to those who know how to present themselves. Applicants have equal chances in an interview, and they are given only once to fully demonstrate their capabilities.
For this, social skills are tested - usually with the help of tricky questions that are little related to the subject of work. In this situation, the ability to actively listen and respond appropriately in difficult situations is usually more important than skills and CVs.
Dale Carnegie's best-selling book, How to Make Friends and Influence People, can be very helpful in understanding how to build your working relationships. A demonstration of a sincere interest in life, the emotional state of other interested parties, empathy for people, understanding their condition is the right way to the hearts of others, including superiors.
The personnel officer is not the boss
In the hierarchy of service, employees of the HR sector, contrary to the common opinion of the layman, occupy a low position and are not considered “important” people.
The applicant should clearly understand that only the manager decides which specialist the company needs and what salary he will have.
Any applicant can go directly to the company's top managers, bypassing contacts with recruiters, for example, on Linkedin or Xing. By setting the necessary filters by specialization and location, you can easily find all nearby personnel agents from many companies.
Important:
- It is convenient to classify the search results into an Excel spreadsheet indicating all the parameters - company name, name, job title, notes.
- Do not immediately send a resume to the mailboxes of all managers in a row. If they refuse you, it is unlikely that in the future an HR employee will consider your candidacy.
- That is why it is still worth initially contacting the recruitment service of this company. To do this, use the mentioned Linkedin, message boards, work sites. After such communication, your list will be replenished with very necessary information - which of the recruiters represents which companies and with whom it is better to contact to promote yourself in the future.
How to wrap up a long job search in your favor?
Many potential employees are afraid of disclosing information on what kind of interviews and in which companies have taken place before, what salaries are focused on, like fire. This caution is in many cases superfluous. In many positions of the labor market, the number of vacancies exceeds the number of free candidates for them. Therefore, the applicant often has a much wider range of opportunities than the employing company.
When a job seeker honestly talks about which companies he has parallel job offers with deadlines for CV consideration, he often plays into his hands. A competent and confident presentation of this information may prompt the employer to hire this particular person - competition forces companies to fight for the best personnel.
In the modern business world, a lot depends on the rules of etiquette and manner of communication. Correctly stated and reasonable requirements are based on a person’s respect for himself and his abilities and time. Therefore, others, including superiors, relate to him accordingly.
We ask the most uncomfortable questions at the interview
Going for an interview, you need to clearly understand that with a favorable outcome, this company will have to spend at least several years of its life. Therefore, casting aside shame, one must directly ask all questions of interest. Often applicants, especially those without work experience, are afraid to ask about the most important aspects of work and remuneration, fearing that they will be considered too demanding. In fact, asking about salaries, social guarantees and career prospects is normal. In order to correctly understand the essence of the proposed work, you need to have good sociability, do not be shy to ask questions and clarify controversial and obscure points.
It happens that in order to lure a competent employee, the employer promises a lot, but subsequently does little. The following list of questions may help the applicant to avoid such unscrupulous companies:
- Tell us about company management policies?
- What problems do employees have?
- Nearest / remote company development plans?
- The main problem points are competitors, growth dynamics.
