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How To Not Fail The Crap Out Of A Job Interview

Posted by Keith | Posted in Career | Posted on 13-11-2009

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For about the past 6 months to a year I have been conducting interviews.  Some of the adjectives used by people to describe this interview are:

*Stressful
*Insightful
*Hard
*Depressing
*Educational

The interviews that I conduct are very much technical.  It almost reminds me of taking my certifications when I was in school.  Over the these past 6 -12 months I’ve probably done somewhere between 50 – 100 interviews, both in person and over the phone.  I was trying to think about what to write this week and decided to write a list of things NOT to do when interviewing and applying for a job.

As stated above, I run interviews that for the most part involve technical questioning so these suggestions will be slightly slanted toward these types of interviews.  However, I think that you will find that they apply to pretty much any type of job.