Comments on: Succeed in a Job Interview Every Time http://EmploymentDigest.net/2009/03/succeed-in-a-job-interview-every-time/ News, Tips and Hints for those in Career Transistion Thu, 24 May 2012 12:12:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Reganator http://EmploymentDigest.net/2009/03/succeed-in-a-job-interview-every-time/comment-page-1/#comment-31143 Reganator Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:48:34 +0000 http://www.EmploymentDigest.net/?p=2299#comment-31143 I think it is important to be yourself when you interview for a new position because if you pretend to be someone else, you and the employer who selects you for the position have the potential to be gravely disappointed. If you are pretending to be a different person to get a job, you are forgetting that your new job will require you to act like this different person. Everyone has a "professional" face they present in the workplace but the farther you diverge from your true self for this "professional" personality, the unhappier you will be working in a position where it's possible you will never be able to be comfortable, as yourself. I'm not saying it hasn't happened that people landed the job pretending to be one way and became successful in the new environment operating more comfortably, but it's a slippery slope- and one to proceed forward on with care. I think it is important to be yourself when you interview for a new position because if you pretend to be someone else, you and the employer who selects you for the position have the potential to be gravely disappointed.

If you are pretending to be a different person to get a job, you are forgetting that your new job will require you to act like this different person. Everyone has a “professional” face they present in the workplace but the farther you diverge from your true self for this “professional” personality, the unhappier you will be working in a position where it’s possible you will never be able to be comfortable, as yourself.

I’m not saying it hasn’t happened that people landed the job pretending to be one way and became successful in the new environment operating more comfortably, but it’s a slippery slope- and one to proceed forward on with care.

]]> By: Reganator http://EmploymentDigest.net/2009/03/succeed-in-a-job-interview-every-time/comment-page-1/#comment-32734 Reganator Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:48:00 +0000 http://www.EmploymentDigest.net/?p=2299#comment-32734 I think it is important to be yourself when you interview for a new position because if you pretend to be someone else, you and the employer who selects you for the position have the potential to be gravely disappointed. If you are pretending to be a different person to get a job, you are forgetting that your new job will require you to act like this different person. Everyone has a "professional" face they present in the workplace but the farther you diverge from your true self for this "professional" personality, the unhappier you will be working in a position where it's possible you will never be able to be comfortable, as yourself. I'm not saying it hasn't happened that people landed the job pretending to be one way and became successful in the new environment operating more comfortably, but it's a slippery slope- and one to proceed forward on with care. I think it is important to be yourself when you interview for a new position because if you pretend to be someone else, you and the employer who selects you for the position have the potential to be gravely disappointed.

If you are pretending to be a different person to get a job, you are forgetting that your new job will require you to act like this different person. Everyone has a “professional” face they present in the workplace but the farther you diverge from your true self for this “professional” personality, the unhappier you will be working in a position where it’s possible you will never be able to be comfortable, as yourself.

I’m not saying it hasn’t happened that people landed the job pretending to be one way and became successful in the new environment operating more comfortably, but it’s a slippery slope- and one to proceed forward on with care.

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