An endless number of tips have been published on how to successfully pass an interview for the work of your dream, but "it's still there" - hundreds of applicants regularly fill up a conversation with a potential employer, "blurting out" about the love of children and plans to become a large mother in the next five years,wearing sneakers under a business suit or taking "one hundred grams" for courage.
Let's not fill up the ranks of these fools, but we'll find out what to tell about yourself at the interview, and what is delicate, like a young lady on a date, to be silent.
"Only business, Michael, nothing personal. ..": 5 things for work that you need to tell about yourself at the interview
Experts identify 5 "eternal" topics that you will have to tell about in an interview as if you are in the spirit:
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Education.
If you are the heir of an aristocratic family and somewhere on the shelf along with family jewelry collects a diploma of Harvard specializing in "Lawyer-internationalist" - honor you and praise, and tell the interview to a potential boss.
But even if there is a modest "crust" of the sewing technical school in the "zagashnik", you should not be afraid: distance learning and online courses, independent study of textbooks and manuals - take an interview on your inexhaustible, as a world ocean, craving for knowledge.
Do not forget to tell about all the trainings, seminars and other events at the interview, where you managed to hang out with colleagues.
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Work experience is what you should first talk about in an interview.
No, not even so: not experience, but your functionality on previous places.
Whether you are on the workbook at least three personal assistant manager, but if in practice you never had to rush to write a speech to the chief, buy a ticket for a plane and take out a stain on his expensive suit, call yourself an ordinary secretary at an interview - and Bozhenka will repayyou for truthfulness after him.
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The reason for leaving the previous place of work is one of the "top" topics in the interview.
Emm, well, you yourself understand - no "Yes, it's impossible to work in this gadfly, what can I tell you?", "Chief is a rare blockhead", "Yes it's a sharashka office" and other "cries of the soul."
Tell me more about what already "grew up" from the previous place of work and did not see the prospect for career growth, that they wanted to work with a "miracle nail" for a miracle firm that invited you to an interview and carry other "vanilla" nonsense.
Believe me, for a fragile boss soul - it's like a bottle of Borjomi after a corporate party.
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Achievements at the previous place of work are something that is worth telling about yourself.
Take a deep breath and tell me at the interview how you increased the sales of the cream "Snow White" by 15%, and the lotion "Cucumber" and did a symbol of eternal youth.
Have a difficult journey from a secretary in a firm selling a bra to a commercial director at an it-enterprise? Do not be modest! Tell a wonderful story about yourself, but try to keep within 4-5 minutes, so as not to take away from the high authorities precious time in the interview.
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The most secret thing about what you need to tell about yourself at the interview - no, this is not who is the main hero of your erotic fantasies, but what salary you are counting on.
"My advice: ask for an interview with a salary of interest 15-20 more than the one for which you agree to work.
Do not get - well, in principle, you are on a smaller and expected, get - will you "on pins and ribbons".And with a valuable worker and will not be at all trivial - they will pay, like a pretty one », - says the manager for recruitment of Yana from Moscow.
Personal or public?3 things that you will have to tell about yourself at the interview, although they do not concern yourself with the work. ..
Nobody will ask you to voice the code from your banking cell, the size of the shoes and( oh, horror!) The real weight, but what exactly is on the interview to tell, so it's about:
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state of health if there are serious diseases.
First, about the "sores" that prevent you from working, sooner or later it becomes known, and secondly, it's not interesting for anyone to "pump out" you after an attack of asthma or epilepsy, except for the avid fans of the series "Doctor House."
At the very least, tell the interview that there is a problem, but everything is under control;
Somehow the girlfriend of the author of the article, Nastya, "bortanuli" from a steep jewelry store just because she was wearing braces and every month she was sent for a couple of hours to the dentist.
"Well, I did not believe the authorities that with an ideal Hollywood smile I will sell even more diamonds, and the most insulting that until the end of the treatment there was literally a couple of months" , "the girl said about herself.
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tell in an interview about the family situation, so much so that the employer hugged you and cried for joy that he found such an employee.
That is, if you have children, it means that a dozen relatives live somewhere near by, who are always ready to sit with a sick little one, and you will not even think of any sick people, let alone running to other firms for an interview.
Unmarried young women should, at an interview with foam at the mouth, tell that a career is their light in the window, and no borsch pan will replace the joy of timely delivery of the report;
Men "in the prime of life," burdened by family, credit and mortgages, can rest on the interview that they are ready to give their best at work for a thousand percent, because they are the main breadwinner in the family. Tell us about yourself, they say, they are waiting for their home with a salary and heated slippers on the battery;
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tell us about your hobbies so that you can earn extra "points" in the interview.
For example, if you came to be a journalist who writes reviews of cultural events, God Himself told you to tell with an air of an interview about your love of literature and painting, but without a trip to the theater, there is not one weekend at all. Yes you already have all the cloakroom attendants by their names!
An accountant, at leisure, "frolicking" in a club of chess players or playing in the local league "Brain Ring", also causes a sense of satisfaction: they say, everything is normal and logical in this world, as it should be.
Although the author of the article personally knows one accountant from a poultry farm who rides a Harley Davidson, gallops on a red horse, Getman and "scored" a tattoo all over his back. In a word, it's not something that breaks, but crushes stereotypes, like King Kong, New York skyscrapers.
3 advice from an experienced HR manager, what do you need to tell about yourself in an interview to fascinate for ever?
The author of the article was lucky to be friends with a representative of such a wonderful profession as an HR manager( HR manager).
And now the charming Yanochka, recruiting not only intelligent economists, but also hard builders, shared her "sacred" knowledge about what to tell about herself at the interview, and what it's worth keeping a mum on:
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determine on the move that the "beast" before you is sitting and "dance" from this : the elderly boss, brought up on the principles of communism, Leninism and other "soviet" will weep with emotion if you tell at the interview that your main qualities- diligence, concentration and labor discipline, and you will not exchange your native collective even for the group "Viagra" in the first composition;
A young boss in a fitted suit, reading Brain Tracy and Robert Kiosaki, will be "dragged" in an interview from the fact that you skate, cook homemade soap, plant chinchillas - in short, quietly go crazy;
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books on etiquette are not the Bible, so do not take their advice to dress up for an interview in the strict business style : a young girl, dressed up like a queen of the Queen of England, looks suspicious.
And I want to ask: "And you from what area?" And tell how to find a way out of the office space.
"I do not even listen to what she says about herself. The poor girl: read the business books and tries to hide the fear and insecurity in her professional skills behind a dark suit and blouse with a jabot.
Simply do not shock at the interview with an evening sports style, tell us about your strengths - and this is enough for the cool , says Yana. - must tell at the interview, if you can recommend the previous boss. It's not even that you are the god of sales and are able to indulge a vegetarian to buy "KAMAZ" pork, but that you could leave, having preserved human relations, and not having slept all the bridges behind you. It captivates.
14 typical mistakes: how, when and what to tell about yourself in an interview can not be
How to correctly answer the most common
question in an interview to get a job:
The main secret of successful employment: does not tell you about yourself in an interview, but howDo it - easily, confidently and without "straining", believing in your bright future( even if it has nothing to do with the company you came to be employed in).
Believe the author of the article - a man who 7 of the 9 interviews in his entire life went well and got a job.