art

A good sunday so far. As I have almost read the whole newspaper. A couple of fine articles caught my attention, as they are about essay writing and interviewing and resume/cv writing skills.

I strongly believe that interviewing is an art. To sit there, in front of a random person, who might be end up being a complete pain(in other words 'boss'), and act as everything is fine. No sign of anxiety or nervousness at all, replying to the querries confidently, is truely an art. And as been said by the great writer of all times, William Shakespear; "When you develop an ability to listen to almost everything, without loosing your temper and self confidence, that means you are educated"

I just have a habbit of giving interviews. Its like a feeling of victory that I have, when I am coming out of the interview room. I can just tell in the first minute that what kind of interview this is going to be.

The most important thing I believe, is to take control of the situation, by playing abit of mind trick with the interviewer. It is a science on its own (Neuro-linguistic Programming). Its like, to make him question you, something that you want him to. Lets take a look at an example from one of my latest interview;

Interviewer: So tell me something about your recent job?

Me: "Well, as I was working under the capacity of sales manager with a team of 8 salesmen, towards a specific target of x million a month. The business was challenging, as, we were not allowed to bring new clients, but to increase the revenue within that particular client list. Me and my team, sits together every month and PLAN a whole strategy as to, how and what to do in that particular month, in order to achieve these monthly targets? and then because of the strategies I implimented with my team, recently we not only, secured the position of the best sales team across the region, but also managed to achieve the targets"

Now if you observe and read it carefully, I ended my answer in a way, that will make him as me the question that I wanted him to ask. And that will be;

Interviewer: And what were those strategies?

Offcourse, the qualifications, skils, and degrees do make a difference. But I have seen extra smart people, failing their interviews, yet ordinary and average scorer achieving success. So it is all a matter of, HOW WELL YOU INSPIRE THE OPPONENT(INTERVIEWER)