From Inside the Room Where Decisions About Your Career are Made.
From Inside the Room Where Decisions About Your Career are Made.
Don’t mention that you can do the job in an interview!
The most common phrase in an interview
that candidates share with their interviewer is, “I can do this job”. Believe it or not, this is a phrase you want to avoid in your interviews. This is one of the last phrases you want to share with your interviewer and we will provide a number of reasons why this is the case.
Age doesn’t have to be a factor in the job interview
Mature candidate
Today’s post focuses on the mature candidate as part three of a 3 part series on age discrimination in the job interview. Lessons from this post can be used for all age demographics.
I mentioned in Post 1 of this three-part series that I would jump at the opportunity to hire the two mature candidates below.
Would you decline 63-year-old Bill Gates?
Job Interview Ageism
Last week we discussed age discrimination in the job interview and a few of my personal theories on why job interview ageism exists.
Before anyone gets into a huff
Candidates are not declined because of their age. Qualified candidates of all backgrounds are declined because the company is afraid their attitude will upset the company culture.
Uhh yeah, wrong answer. How do you recover?
Wrong Interview Answer
What do you do when you realize that you provided the wrong interview answer? What do you do when you realize we could have answered an interview question more effectively after we have left the interview.
We have all done it. We are in the job interview and things are going well. Then, we are asked a question that we aren’t prepared for.