New Way of Thinking of a Job Interview

Job interview has always been a stressful experience for many. People are usually afraid of all the difficult interview questions they can get. I will mention just few of these question, to remind it to you:

What are your weaknesses?
Why do you want to work fork for us?
Why should our company hire you?
What are your goals in five years time?

These are just some of the difficult questions. In most of the cases, job seekers devote the major part of interview preparation to practice of their own answers to the most common questions. Ten years ago, the answers to the questions definitely decided who got the job. However, do the questions really decide nowadays? Think about it for a moment.

We live in an informative era. Every single job seeker can browse the internet and find brilliant advice to the topic of interview questions and answers. What more, we can hire the services of authorized interview coaches and similar professionals, that can help us significantly in our preparation.

Obviously, recruiting managers are aware of this fact. I work as one, so I know what I am talking about. Let me show you the difference ten years ago and now, when it comes to interviewing people for a job.

Ten years ago, HR managers simply prepared a basic template of interview questions, typically something between 15 and 20 questions. Each question was targeting certain skill, habit or ability of an applicant.
Then there was a right answer assigned to each question. Once the applicant entered the room, he was questioned all the questions for a list and received points for his answers.

At the end of the day, the points were count and the person with best score got the job. It was easy back then, wasn't it?

However, times has changed strongly and employers now pay much more attention to your behavior in an interview. Simply, instead of asking you "Are you motivated for this job?", they try to asses the level of your motivation from the way you act in an interview.

And this is something job seekers do not focus on enough I believe - the non-verbal communication, their presence in an interview.
Most people simply locate the list of possible questions and try to prepare some answers to it. However, if you really want to ace an interview, you will have to work on your non-verbal communication. I suggest you to focus mostly on the following areas:

- Looking eager and motivated in an interview
- Keeping an eye contact with the interviewers all the time
- Arriving at place with a high level of enthusiasm and keeping this level all the time
- Practicing your listening skills
- Presenting yourself as an ideal candidate for the job, in all aspects that belong to it.

Once you improve these areas and combine it with good answers to interview questions, you're chances of succeed in an interview will be very good. At the end of the day, the interviewers are also men and women such as me and you. If you can make a good impression and create a good realation in an interview, they will give you a job. I wish you good luck!