How to charm you’re future boss in the interview…

You step up to the doorway for the room where you will meet you’re fate. You’ve been sending out emails, dialling numbers, and handing out CVs for what seemed like months, before actually getting an interview. This moment seems fragile, there’s not a chance you can mess this up. You remember you’re wearing you’re tailored suit — the one useful item you splurged on from you’re last career move’s winnings, you tighten the noose on you’re white collar, take a deep breathe and an assuring smirk into the glass of the reception window’s reflection. It’s time to meet fate.

Perhaps we hold too much weight and pressure on the idea of a job interview, as if it’s the final level of a 90’s 16-bit gaming device, meeting Bowzer and throwing what energy you have at him to complete you’re mission. Within months you are wondering why the game was so important anyway, maybe you’re interest has moved to the next game, maybe you are still working you’re way to the final level only to meet spiky misfortune time again.

Maybe you have to ask yourself why you are applying for the job… create a mind map, identify where you’re passion lies. Hone in on that passion. The interview is a chance to advertise you’re capabilities. Imagine yourself selling perfume, but instead it’s you’re skills. Have the confidence of this guy:

Really think of it as a psychologist session. Be open, and honest, though try to leave out the part where you tell them how you broke a microwave at you’re last job and left the freezers off overnight and the stock got ruined (whoops). They want to see you’re true confident self. Not some fake, cocky yes man and not a dithering fool who can’t string together a full sentence.

It’s a good idea to prep yourself with questions, prepare some true answers… “Why do you want to work here” “Why this career?” “What’s you’re biggest work accomplishment” “A failure (keep modest), and how did you learn from the experience to avoid future problems?”

Just make sure you realise that this person you’re talking to will be a future boss. You will try to impress him, anytime that you can, and sometimes he may not be ‘nice’. But hopefully he’s not this guy: