Interviews

Now i can proudly say that i have had a whopping 2 interviews in my life. So, not a great achievement is it? Normally what would happen is that due to unknown reasons when i applied for a job i would automatically get it. I used to think i was that perfect, until about 3 years ago when i had my first ever interview. When i was talking to the employer he said to me something i will never forget “You are trying to impress me, i am not your friend”. From there i discovered the broad, realistic sense of what it means to be professional in the adult world. Whenever i had spoke to anybody, i acted like my normal self: goofy, nerdy and a fast speaker. Little did i know that the rest of the world does not work the same way.

So, what about the 2nd interview i hear you ask, well i will tell you! It happened yesterday, and it was about the role of Head Boy in my college. I had been panicking and thinking of the worst case scenario for the whole weekend at work, counting down the hours,minutes and seconds until it was time to go.

Recall back what i said earlier in the blog, about acting as my normal self, the first thing i said when walking into the interview room was “This place is massive!”. From there you can probably gather that I acted just how i did three years ago. Whilst i walked out of the interview with a massive grin on my face, i knew that something has to change.

Don’t get me wrong, it is very important to act like yourself in any situation. But, you must adapt the extent of how much you act normally in any given situation. You should act more professionally in a conference room than at home or with your friends. Don’t change who you are, as entrepreneur Ryan Nicodemus once said “You can’t change the people around you, but you can change the people around you”. The world does not always need to be so serious, we only get one life. If you are having an interview and it is so strict and uptight, remember there is an option to say no.