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spun că atitudinea candidatului este elementul cel mai important în decizia de
angajare, cel puţin în cazul poziţiilor entry-level, potrivit ultimului raport al HR Club.
2. Mergi sigur pe tine şi zâmbeşte. Nimic nu trebuie să fie forţat în ceea ce faci.
Cel mai important lucru este să fii pe aceeaşi lungime de undă cu persoanele din
faţa ta, să le transmiţi încredere. Ce trebuie să faci când ajungi în faţa recrutorului:să
saluţi, să te prezinţi şi să-i înmânezi CV-ul înainte de a te aşeza pe scaun.
2. Să porţi costum sau nu? Mihaela Berciu le recomandă celor care activează în
mediul de afaceri (în special în bănci, firme de avocatură, în Comunicare sau PR) să
meargă la interviul de angajare îmbrăcaţi în costum. Este acceptată
ţinutacasual doar în cazul mediilor creative, de artişti, sau în cazul specialiştilor care
nu interacţionează direct cu clienţii (de exemplu, specialiştii IT). “Scopul este ca
angajatorul să te vadă încă de la interviu ca membru al companiei. Trebuie să-l
convingi din prima clipă că vei reprezenta bine compania”, explică Berciu.
3. În ce culori să fii îmbrăcat? Este recomandat să fii îmbrăcat în culori închise, dar
nu în negru, care are o asprime ce vine în contradicţie cu tinereţea chipului.
Consultantul de imagine recomandă bleumarin, gri închis sau alte culori închise care
să sugereze tradiţie, profesionalism şi autoritate.
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angajare nu trebuie să fie foarte scurtă. “Indiferent de domeniul de activitate, cea mai
scurtă lungime acceptată la fustă este puţin deasupra genunchiului. Altfel distragi
atenţia, mai ales când te aşezi pe scaun”, spune consultantul de imagine.
7. Cum trebuie să fie pantofii? Pantofii trebuie să fie în aceeaşi linie cu restul
ţinutei. Sunt recomandaţi pantofii clasici, simpli, de culoare închisă. Sandalele sunt
contraindicate în cazul interviului de angajare.
FORTUNE -- Dear Annie: I graduated from college last spring and, after
taking a few months off to take care of some family business, I'm looking for
my first "real" job. I've been lucky enough to get several interviews, and
they've gone pretty well, but I have to say, I'm kind of mystified. While I was
still in school, I read a bunch of books about how to prepare for a job
interview, and one thing they all said was that interviewers would be well
prepared and ask probing, detailed questions.
Instead, I'm finding that, not only do my interviewers so far seem to have few
questions beyond "Tell me about yourself," but they haven't even read my
resume (short as it is, at this point). Am I just running into some weird
companies, or is this par for the course? --Ivy League
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Dear Ivy: In an ideal world, everyone responsible for deciding who gets hired
would indeed be well versed on your qualifications and ready to ask
thoughtful, incisive questions. In reality, though, many interviewers are
managers who are so pressed for time that they just haven't gotten around to
thinking about you at all until you're sitting across the desk from them.
And that's not all. Veteran career coach David Couper, who has worked with
both interviewers and candidates at Mattel (MAT, Fortune 500), Amgen
(AMGN, Fortune 500), Amoco, Allied Signal, and many other big companies,
has identified 10 areas where job applicants' expectations are often way out
of line with what actually happens.
Here is his list of the top 10 job interview myths, and how to deal with them:
Myth #9: Most interviewers have been trained to conduct thorough job
interviews.
While human resources professionals do get extensive training in job
interviewing techniques, the average line manager is winging it. "To make up
for vague questions, be specific even if they don't ask," Couper suggests. "Be
ready with two or three examples of particular skills and experiences that
highlight why they should hire you."
Couper once interviewed a job candidate who said she would love a cup of
tea, which, he recalls, "meant I spent half the allotted interview time looking
for a tea bag, heating water, and so on. It was irritating."
Another good reason, Couper says, to decline caffeine is that "if the interview
is a lengthy one, you don't want to need a restroom halfway through the
conversation."
Second, and no less important, "you want a little time to prep your references,
by gently coaching them on what you'd like them to say, before the employer
calls them."
Don't be afraid to talk at length about it, partly because it will spare the
interviewer having to come up with another question for you (see Myth #1
above) and partly because "in a good interview, you should be talking about
two-thirds of the time."
Myth #3: When asked where you see yourself in five years, you should
show tremendous ambition.
The five-year question is a common one, and it's uncommonly tricky.
"Interviewers want you to be a go-getter, but they also worry that you'll get
restless if you don't move up fast enough. So you want to say something that
covers all bases, like, 'I'd be happy to stay in this job as long as I'm still
learning things and making a valuable contribution,'" says Couper.
You might also consider turning the question around and asking, "Where do
you see me in five years?" Says Couper, "Sometimes the answer to that --
like, 'Well, we'd expect you to keep doing the same thing we hired you to do'
-- is a good way to spot a dead-end job."
Myth #2: If the company invites you to an interview, that means the job
is still open.
Alas, no. In fact, the job may never have existed in the first place: "Some
companies use 'interviews' to do market research on the cheap. They ask you
about your current or recent duties, your pay scale, and so on, to get
information for comparison purposes." Another possibility, Couper says, is
that "they may already have a strong internal candidate in mind for the job but
just want to see if they come across someone better."
Even if the job opening is phony, it's still worth going, he says: "Sometimes
they discover you're a good fit for a different opening that really does exist.
You never know where an interview might lead."
And the #1 myth about job interviewing: The most qualified person gets
the job.
In at least one crucial respect, a job interview is like a date: Chemistry counts.
"A candidate who is less qualified, but has the right personality for the
organization and hits it off with the interviewer, will almost always get hired
over a candidate who merely looks good on paper," Couper says.
What can you do if you suspect you're not knocking an interviewer's socks
off?
"At the end of the discussion, you'll probably be asked if you have any
questions," Couper says. "If you sense the person has reservations about
your style, ask what the ideal candidate for this job would be like." Then think
fast. Can you talk a bit about how you fit that profile? "Addressing any
concerns the interviewer might have, beyond your formal qualifications, is
your chance to seal the deal," Couper says.