Job Interviews & Interviews - An Opportunity as Well as Privilege

Attending interviews is probably the most nerve racking aspect of the job searching process. It seems that many people will do almost “anything” to avoid that and those “terrible” interview , interviews or “meetings” , even if that means that they sabotage their own job search and prevent or even stop themselves from going up the career ladder.

True interviews can be scary. However if you want that job or that advancement in your career, interviews are a basic as well as essential component of the whole job seeking or career upgrade process. Get used to it. Get comfortable with interviews. It’s all a game so to speak. The more interviews you do, the easier it and they will become. You will become more at ease, and to say the least better at the whole interview “game” and “process”. Interviews for the most part are fairly predictable – that is once you become experienced and wise to the whole flow of events.

First and foremost is the question. Why interviews and what are interviews for? It can be said that like resumes interviews generally have a dual purpose. It a matter of perspective as to which side of the fence you sit or stand on. That is are you the employer conducting the interview itself or are you the person being interviewed for the employment position – that is the job seeker or “interviewee”. At the start of your career so to speak in the “interview” or “job seeking “game you might think or see yourself as a novice going to speak to a bank manager about obtaining a very large loan at their financial institution and being rather nervous about the whole event, being a new customer without a credit rating or ranking what so ever. On top of that you may well be a new customer at their saving or loan or depository.

Believe it or not the primary purpose of the interview is to determine whether or not your skills, skillet and expertise and experience fit the available position or positions. Think about it. If this were not the case hiring could be done on the basis of your resumes or even emails. There would no be valid reason for you to be in that room for that meeting or interview, at all, for you to plead your case and be able to promote yourself personally to the decision maker or perhaps decision makers down the line, for that employment position or positions.

You may be fearful of the interview meeting or meetings themselves but if were not for the opportunity you would be locked out to a greater degree. You should be grateful for the opportunity or opportunities for the whole interview process and meeting. If not for these personal meetings you might not even be hired at all, ever.

Think about it. An interview affords face to face meetings. There may be little events, misunderstanding or perhaps bit of misinformation that might prevent you from obtaining valid employment opportunities or to proceed up the career ladder. For example one most bright individual with terrific skills and intelligence often portrayed himself poorly on his resume and applications. It seemed that this potential goldmine of an employee hire had been professionally diagnosed with spelling dyslexia. Hence he often made apparent spelling errors. Yet once in an interview process , he could both explain fully and properly the situation , his intelligence and the fact that he was not only most intelligent but also that he had more than compensated for this shortcoming in verbal as well as written skills. As he pointed out to interviewers in this day and age using a computer online with Goggle – that the search engine would correct most spelling errors and mistakes. This apparent disadvantage was now both explained and minimized. End of story. Furthermore it seemed that thanks to his compensation or perhaps overcompensation with highly developed business skills, this candidate possessed perhaps the most desirable skill of all – one that most employers seek out and will the most for – that is the advanced management skills of being able to motivate people. Successful management skills, it seem, involve the ability to enthuse people to do your work and bidding and as well even be enthusiastic and determined in accomplishing this (or your) work.

So in the end the interview process need not be feared. It’s an exciting and valuable part of the whole job seeking as well as career upgrade process. You should be almost grateful that you are being given the privilege of being a participant in the whole interview process. View interviews and interviewing in this manner and perspective. It will show. You will ace those interviews.