What do they mean, “I interview well”?
March 19, 2009I’ve now had 2 different hiring managers, in the MIDDLE of my interview with them, compliment me that “I interview/am doing well.”
To me this has got to be one of the worst things to hear during the interview. In both instances, I was aware that I was starting to trail off at the end of my answers and it would be at this exact moment that they gave me the compliment. Did the hiring managers sense my nervousness and simply offer these comforting words to calm me down? A technique they pull out from their bag of tricks to motivate the candidate to do better?
If there’s one thing the whole interview, and subsequent rejection, process has taught me is that nothing is ever what it seems. Broken promises, insincerity, false appearances, the whole gamut.
Wow I know how it feels. I’ve been through the whole recruiting things before and the “that nothing is ever what it seems” line hits home. So many times I left recruiting events thinking I would have multiple offers “for sure”.
Keep going man. As someone once said to me “I assure you, you will land on your feet”