Why is it getting tougher to land a job today????? SIMPLE:It is because Job Interviewers have resorted to using Thanos’s Snap.
Leah Champagne
Imagine a heavily hyped movie that you have been looking forward to watch with all the excitement all year long and then when the time finally comes you are met with utmost disappointment. Now double that disappointment and that’s what a well prepared interview gone badly feels like.
No, I am not going to talk about the very well executed and utterly satisfying Avengers: Endgame but will talk about the nightmare of a job interview I had right after Hulk reversed the snap and got my interviewer back to life from dust. Continue reading to see how the interviewers need to be taught a good lesson.
Spoiler Alert: (Avengers Endgame References Made Throughout)
We all dream about getting even with a bad interviewer, fantasize about how this bad interview could have been better and scroll down through Google to learn tips and tricks to get the next interview right.
We perfect our communication skills, put days and months into preparing for an opportunity of a lifetime that is a job interview, wear our best, look our best and then on the final day during such interviews these interviewers snap their fingers and just like that all our efforts along with our confidence fades away. Sounds familiar?
What if I tell you this failure was not completely your fault.( Well Thor could have gone for the head but the snap was still Thanos’ doing.)
Yes, you are reading it right. A bad interview is not always your doing.
Its 2019, most techniques are old school. Formal firm handshakes with a greeting are now a story of the past. Instead of there being lectures on perfecting an interview, tackling questions and impressing an interviewer, we need lecturing the interviewers on how to conduct an interview in 2019.
In the old times a tough interviewer was considered as a necessity for it was deemed that a person tackling the tough was right for any job. But think again, was it?
Recruiters now want much more than people who put their heads in the lion’s mouth and live to tell the tale. They seek for loyal, hard working and trust worthy individuals along with the desired skills with whom they can settle down in the near future.
Yet they haven’t changed their ways of finding and recruiting such individuals and still resort to the golden rules of taking an interview viz.
1) Scare the hell out of an interviewee and at least break some down to tears.
2) Constantly remind them of who the superior is with all the powers.
3) Find ways to humiliate them by passing judgements upon their
qualifications .
4) Demotivation is the key to a successful interview and if possible teach a life lesson that will kill their self esteem.
Respected interviewers and others,
If you are reading this,
This is exactly what most people applying for a job go through in the interviewing process.
Times have changed. Competition is high. Stacks and stacks of educational degrees and skills are not enough. There is always more expected from us. But do note we are trying harder than ever; our struggles are tougher than ever.
Going tough on us in a process to find out if we are right for the job is clearly not working for as fear won’t reflect the best in us.
I get it there is employment crisis going on probably everywhere from where you are reading this and most of you have already shortlisted the right candidate well in advance before an advertisement of such a job in your esteemed organisation reach the job seekers and all this hectic cycle of recruitment is just a show for the outsiders to highlight the fact that all legal aspects were complied with for the process but this does not justify your behaviour towards an interviewee.
If I were to recruit someone for my company, I would want to see the strengths of an applicant and analyze how I will use these strengths for my company’s best interests.
A scary atmosphere in an interview makes even the most outspoken extroverts nervous and does not bring about the best in them. If one can’t see the best how does one figure out what the person really is and if they are right for the job.
Lastly I would conclude with some tips and tricks for the interviewer which is the good lesson that needs to be taught to them that I was referring to in the beginning,
1) Be a human being and treat the interviewee like one too.
There is no point in turning green and smashing every time there is a disagreement or conflict of thoughts. Let us all leave the smashing to HULK.
OR
If smashing is your thing then take inspiration from our beloved new combination of BRUCE HULK or HULK BANNER as I like to call it. Be both tough and calm.
2) Don’t be happy about the interview if you have managed to make someone cry.
This will only make you a monster without reason and purpose that is worse than Thanos himself as even that purple being had a purpose for what he did.
3) “A smile conveys a million words”, worship this ideology, make it your best friend.
A smile makes the interviewee confident and makes them feel wanted and relaxed. This will bring out the best in them.
4) Make the interviewee feel comfortable even when they have answered something wrong.
At least their blunders in answering your questions won’t turn half the universe to dust.
5) THE ENDGAME:
This rule as the name suggests is how you play the end. This rule is applicable only when the interviewee is not getting shortlisted. Do it just like the movie, unsettling yet satisfying.
See how beautifully Pepper Potts handled Tony Stark dying.
The news was bad but it was done with a smile and a satisfactory remark that “YOU CAN REST NOW” which brought less tears to the eyes. Interviews are no less than a battle field and the outcome is just like experiencing the death of a beloved so take it easy and announce the bad news with heart.
With this I end my first ever post.
Please let me know about your thoughts and views and if you readers have any tips for our dear interviewers.
Do share your interview experiences with me. i would love to hear them
Thank you for your time.
I WILL RETURN
