Expert Insight On Job Interview Mistakes You Should Avoid

Good article SGT (Join to see), but you know what? I would love for all these civilian companies (who will get tax credits and other benefits for hiring disabled Veterans) who claim to want to hire us so badly to take three minutes and learn a little about the military and not hold our culture against us during the interviewing process.

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Application submission, series of phone interviews, series of in-person interviews... this is a generic process. I would say once you get to the in-person interviews stage, you should pause for a second and pat yourself on the back. You've beat the 'whatever-is-going-on-with-that-application-portal' competition and you are fighting with less than a handful for 'that position.' The potential employer is already focused on you as they see that you will bring in 2-30% margin to the salary if non-revenue generating (strategy & operations etc) and at least 3x the salary if you are on revenue-side (sales, client-facing etc) on the business...

Now - you can call it whatever you want, but in my opinion in-person interviews are designed for the employer (your potential day-to-day boss) to see whether they can hang with you 10 hours a day everyday during the work hours for the work related stuff and in social events where you might need to represent as an extension of your boss.

There are recoverable and non-recoverable mistakes during an in-person interview. If you are jumping industry and you are not familiar with company-particular lingos and nuances for the niche industry (that you couldn't possibly prepare for), make sure to admit that you don't know and show willingness to learn (as those things can be taught and learned too easily). What's not recoverable is rambling, not answering questions, and complaining about the last job.

My rambling here comes from too many of my own mistakes...