October 1, 2014 in Blog by Dawn Williams

5 Behaviours to avoid during your job interview

How to behave in a job interview. What are some of the things not to do during a job interview.

5 behaviors to avoid during your next job interview.

Number One: Arrogance. Now you need to showcase your talent, talk about why you’re good for the job. But there’s a fine line between arrogance and confidence. You have to show humility during a job interview. It’s about reading your audience as well when you’re becoming a little bit too over the top. So you have to be confident but without being arrogant. Number Two: know it all. So… if you come across as “been there done that” on everything that they say it may lead them to thinking that maybe there’s a little bit of “untruth” in some of this. If you don’t know something, be honest and say “I have never done that before, but here’s what I’m willing to do to learn it”. Number Three: “I did it all by myself”. Now most people if not everyone that you speak to that’s risen to the top will tell you they had help somewhere along the line. Make sure that you acknowledge that there was a team effort when it was a team effort and what your contribution was to the overall success of the project. Number Four: Cutting the interviewer off. You’re excited, they’re explaining something about the organization and the job and you just wanna jump in and say “Yes I’ve done that! Here’s what I did in this situation…” resist the urge to cut them off. Take your pen and a pad of paper and write down the things you wanna contribute after they’ve finished speaking Number Five: Being over familiar with the interviewer. Resist that urge it is STILL an interview especially if your interviewer takes you into a territory where you’re going out for a dinner or lunch for the interview with a potential manager you still have to resist the urge of being over familiar. You want to get to know the person but you have to remember you are still on a job interview so backslapping, drinking too much during that job interview, that dinner… resist the urge to do that.