Interviewing for a job is like playing dress up on Halloween. The ultimate question is which costume will get you more candy? Which outfit looks more fit in ready? Is it the pinstriped pencil skirt or the black pants? Should you go for a businessy, white, button down blouse or have a sexy V- neck? Would they pay you more if you wore glasses or contacts? Should your jewelry say I have an edgy side or I come from a family with old money? Should you go for seductress, red, lips or a beachy, carefree, shine? Every tiny aspect of your outfit is under high scrutiny. And the sad thing is I just don't know. Does it matter?
A good interview is never a biography of your life, it's never the REAL YOU, that is making an appearance, instead it's like a bag of Gardettos (Those delicious chip thingys!) it's a combo, a mix between what they want to hear, what you have done and what you have to offer. The whole goal is to build a valuable relationship as fast as possible. You have to be the tasty, salty, little, brown chips in the Gardetto bag. You have to be so valuable that eventually you get your own bag and thus the job. But to get there you have to weed through, the prezals, what they want, the curly cruchy things, what they need at that exact moment, and the little cruchy things that look like bread loaves, how you can connect to them. Until they find that those brown, little, salty, chips, what you have to offer is so good that they can't say no.
But pretending you are a part of a bag of Gardetto chips doesn't help every job hunter out and so I have some other advise that might help instead. No one goes into an interview and answers the questions exactly the same as the interview before. Why? Well first of all, we are not robots and therefore remembering exactly what we said isn't the easiest for most people in stressful situations. But more important we don't want to say the exact same things. Every question we want to answer differently because we want the twist, not the lemon or lime twist, but the twist on our story. We bend every answer in an attempt to try to fit the mold of the company or the job. Sometimes we don't even know we do it. But just wanting the job makes our answers just a bit less truthful and a little bit more hopeful.
Doubtful? We'll for example
If your interviewing for a job as a bartender at a biker bar you wouldn't wear a suit and tie and talk about your degree in English Literature.
Or if you wanted the office assistant job in a law firm, your not going to wear a strapless shirt to show off the tree frog you have tattooed on your shoulder and mention your favorite old job as a lifeguard.
If you interviewed for a job working in a library, your not going to put in your contacts and glue on giant fake eyelashes or use your sorority girlfriends as your only references.
If you wanted a job in lawn care your not going to talk about being the president of the honors society and constantly bring up your degree in physics.
Sometimes it feels so trivial but it's true first impressions matter. But do they matter enough for an employer to by pass your resume or credentials and hire you on the spot, just because of the way you look or act?
A good interview is never a biography of your life, it's never the REAL YOU, that is making an appearance, instead it's like a bag of Gardettos (Those delicious chip thingys!) it's a combo, a mix between what they want to hear, what you have done and what you have to offer. The whole goal is to build a valuable relationship as fast as possible. You have to be the tasty, salty, little, brown chips in the Gardetto bag. You have to be so valuable that eventually you get your own bag and thus the job. But to get there you have to weed through, the prezals, what they want, the curly cruchy things, what they need at that exact moment, and the little cruchy things that look like bread loaves, how you can connect to them. Until they find that those brown, little, salty, chips, what you have to offer is so good that they can't say no.
But pretending you are a part of a bag of Gardetto chips doesn't help every job hunter out and so I have some other advise that might help instead. No one goes into an interview and answers the questions exactly the same as the interview before. Why? Well first of all, we are not robots and therefore remembering exactly what we said isn't the easiest for most people in stressful situations. But more important we don't want to say the exact same things. Every question we want to answer differently because we want the twist, not the lemon or lime twist, but the twist on our story. We bend every answer in an attempt to try to fit the mold of the company or the job. Sometimes we don't even know we do it. But just wanting the job makes our answers just a bit less truthful and a little bit more hopeful.
Doubtful? We'll for example
If your interviewing for a job as a bartender at a biker bar you wouldn't wear a suit and tie and talk about your degree in English Literature.
Or if you wanted the office assistant job in a law firm, your not going to wear a strapless shirt to show off the tree frog you have tattooed on your shoulder and mention your favorite old job as a lifeguard.
If you interviewed for a job working in a library, your not going to put in your contacts and glue on giant fake eyelashes or use your sorority girlfriends as your only references.
If you wanted a job in lawn care your not going to talk about being the president of the honors society and constantly bring up your degree in physics.
Sometimes it feels so trivial but it's true first impressions matter. But do they matter enough for an employer to by pass your resume or credentials and hire you on the spot, just because of the way you look or act?
