Have an Upcoming Interview? Check Out These Tips and Land Your Dream Job!!
It’s interview time! We know you’re nervous; whose knees aren’t shaking when middle management is staring you down and the hot seat you are sitting on just keeps getting hotter?
One way to sound more self assured than you feel is to avoid certain words that will raise a red flag with interviewers.
This example from Time shows how the word “actually” might arouse others’ suspicions:
Question: “How many customers are using the platform?”
Answer: “We actually have over 100 companies.”
Hmmm. Do you really have over 100 companies, or did you actually need to soften the mega-exaggeration just a bit?
Another word to use sparingly is “hope.”
“I hope to broaden my skill set in my next position.”
You hope to, or you are planning to? Hopes are meaningless in business. Hope is great when you are stranded on Mt. Everest in a snowstorm, but don’t bring it into the interview room with you. Plans give an individual goals to aim for and provide motivation, and what employer doesn’t want motivated employees? Your interviewer wants to see that you feel in control of your job performance. Refraining from ambiguous words will assure him/her that you are.
Forbes offers a must read of top turn-off words and phrases submitted by the experts: the interviewers themselves. Study these tips to outshine the competition and snatch up that coveted opportunity you have been waiting for!!