Career Fear? Mind Your Interview Manners.
Don’t let yourself Down. Tips on Interview Etiquette.
When an interview is pending it’s wise to go through all the well documented suggestions in the course of preparation. Learn your CV, practice your responses, know your skill sets and repeat them over and over in your mind. All this is fine and essential if you want to be able to make any kind of an impression with your interviewer.
However practice and more practice can over-do it and responses instead of being natural and delivered in a relaxed fashion, can become very staged, clearly rehearsed or parrot like in its delivery.
This is something that will be immediately identified by your interviewer and can be very irritating if you are at …show more content…
While sitting with an interview panel (all male), a young secretary brought in four coffees on a tray. As she left, the interviewee looked after her, then smiling at us all grinned and said in a suggestive tone ‘wow, where did you get that’. Even in the company of four males in a private room, I can’t describe how ill-appropriate his comment and gesture was even allowing for the fact this man thought he was being funny. Later on, the full interview panel agreed that that candidate would never darken the door again. His behaviour demonstrated bad judgment, poor taste and most of all, plain old Bad …show more content…
Just say thanks, but no, ‘I’m driving’ is enough to end the subject. Alcohol does strange things to a person when under pressure. You will do no favour to yourself by having even just one.
This may all sound somewhat over the top, but, believe me, at senior executive level competence in etiquette is a given. This is a subject that is rarely spoken about, but has a lot of armchair critics. There is nothing worse than watching someone who doesn’t know how to conduct themselves properly.
Now back to the bit about not knowing. If table etiquette sounds strange, then I strongly suggest you buy a book on the subject and read it through carefully. There are various books and information available, but generally not very comprehensive. The Jobdoctor has intense and detailed knowledge of this subject, the basic requirements and expectations in this grey area of presentation. The Jobdoctor can state with 100% confidence that no other can provide better guidance on the subject.
At interview know your C.V. and if dining out, know the menu and mind your manners.
The very best of
Don’t let yourself Down. Tips on Interview Etiquette.
When an interview is pending it’s wise to go through all the well documented suggestions in the course of preparation. Learn your CV, practice your responses, know your skill sets and repeat them over and over in your mind. All this is fine and essential if you want to be able to make any kind of an impression with your interviewer.
However practice and more practice can over-do it and responses instead of being natural and delivered in a relaxed fashion, can become very staged, clearly rehearsed or parrot like in its delivery.
This is something that will be immediately identified by your interviewer and can be very irritating if you are at …show more content…
While sitting with an interview panel (all male), a young secretary brought in four coffees on a tray. As she left, the interviewee looked after her, then smiling at us all grinned and said in a suggestive tone ‘wow, where did you get that’. Even in the company of four males in a private room, I can’t describe how ill-appropriate his comment and gesture was even allowing for the fact this man thought he was being funny. Later on, the full interview panel agreed that that candidate would never darken the door again. His behaviour demonstrated bad judgment, poor taste and most of all, plain old Bad …show more content…
Just say thanks, but no, ‘I’m driving’ is enough to end the subject. Alcohol does strange things to a person when under pressure. You will do no favour to yourself by having even just one.
This may all sound somewhat over the top, but, believe me, at senior executive level competence in etiquette is a given. This is a subject that is rarely spoken about, but has a lot of armchair critics. There is nothing worse than watching someone who doesn’t know how to conduct themselves properly.
Now back to the bit about not knowing. If table etiquette sounds strange, then I strongly suggest you buy a book on the subject and read it through carefully. There are various books and information available, but generally not very comprehensive. The Jobdoctor has intense and detailed knowledge of this subject, the basic requirements and expectations in this grey area of presentation. The Jobdoctor can state with 100% confidence that no other can provide better guidance on the subject.
At interview know your C.V. and if dining out, know the menu and mind your manners.
The very best of