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Preparing For A Job Interview Is Like A Blind Date forced
Being on a job interview is a lot like going on a blind date. In a blind date, you know alimited amount of information about the person: what they'll be wearing (to identify),what they do for a living and whatever little else is divulged about the person. In thesame way, this is all you know about the interviewer: what company they're workingfor that's about it.Having this perspective when attending an interview may help you up your chances of acing it and ultimately getting the job you're applying for. Here are a few things toremember when facing an interview.•
Job interview preparation
 
doesn't stop at the mirror. It goes up till themoment you enter the room where you'll be interviewed. This means arrive early, atleast 30 minutes before the scheduled time. As in a blind date, this means you'reeager to meet and greet; good personality traits scores you plus points.Having the mindset to arrive 30 minutes early will also give you ample time to prepareat home, which means you're likely to have everything prepared. If you by chanceforget anything important, you can use that extra 30 minutes to dash home and backto the interview all in due time.
 
• Get over your post teen achievements. 
Job interview questions
 are neverdirected to lead to your stories of winning that basketball dunking contest you're soproud about. Your answers should show what you can do, your knowledge, your skills,not how high you can jump and dunk a basketball.As your blind date is likely to find such a story immature and pointless, so will theinterviewer. Unless you've somehow already established an emotional connection of some sort with your interviewer, it's a good idea to stick to the basics and keep itformal.• You're being on a first date means that you're in, you just have to take care notto screw it up. In the same way, you're already qualified for the job you're beinginterviewed for. But don't press your buttons just yet, it's just an interview.You have to watch your job interview answers like you watch what you say on a blinddate. Watch for verbal and non
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verbal cues to see how comfortable the other personis with you. Don't just take a leap and start a sensitive or personal topic you might endup spending the night alone (or getting thrown out by company security).• If there's one thing about a job interview that's different from a blind date, it'sthis: You can just leave if your date is a jerk, a slob, or just boring; you have to finish aninterview, whatever happens.
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