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Discover the Scariest Stealth Job Interview
Trap Ever
by Charles Ethos
How an Unlikely Job Interview Trap Becomes a Fine-Tuning Tool for Your
Job Interview Techniques
This is an add-on article to the
4 Key Steps in a Successful Job Interview series. Special insights are offered if you need to go
the extra mile in fine-tuning your job interview techniques.
The original 4 interview articles offer tips on recognizing “unusual
inner miscues” during your job interview:
Body Language in the Raw
1) If up to 93% of face-to-face communication is nonverbal body language,
how can you observe your body language in its purest form?
2) How can you discover your raw faults hidden from you that your
interviewer may see?
3) How do strip away distractions that mask your faults or unseen odd
habits?
It’s a powerful, but
embarrassingly simple trick I learned from reading “Blink, The Power of Thinking Without Thinking”
by Malcolm Gladwell.
Hint? Charlie Chaplin’s fame
hinged on it.
How to Spring the Scariest Job Interview Trap?
Just turn off the
audio when evaluating your mock interview
videos. You’re now the star in a body language video
interview.
Even better, imagine your
performance if the interviewer could turning off your words during your interview!
Sound is distracting and it can
help mask your weaknesses. Words, sounds are powerful tools that we use to help mask our out-of-sync body language.
Whether stressed or just
enthusiastic, we tend to speak more rapidly, more loudly, pushing our words to take on a force of their own. Do you really think that this
will sway your interviewer’s opinion of you? While attempting to dominate with words, you may
appear on the verge of being out of control.
When caught, remember how loudly
you protested to your mother, “I didn’t do it!” The louder, the more convincing? You thought so but your mother never bought it. In fact, it
worked against you.
The Ultimate Test of Being in Sync During Your Job
Interview
My Story:
I was frustrated by a colleague’s
uncanny ability to choose the best of the job candidates. While most of the time it’s not difficult to size up a job candidate, sometimes one
faces a very desirable candidate that doesn’t quite sync. My colleague used a very simple stealth technique to help weed out any out-of-sync
candidate.
Can you
guess?...
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