Job Interview Psychology - a secret tip for getting job offers.
How does a company decide on hiring? Well, they get a bunch of people to meet you one by one, and sometimes together, then they catch up with all these interviewers to ask, hey, what do you think of this candidate?
In a good scenario, the interviewer will say, “I like him.” in addition to rational facts the interviewer has gathered. This itself may not need a justification, but he/she may further describe, this candidate has an air of relaxing, etc.
But when the interviewer doesn’t like, he may not be so direct, will try all ways to justify this.
According to the book “Thinking, fast and slow”, thinking itself is a complicated process, in a way, our brains take the input of our past experience, and what we feel and sense, into what we think.
Understand a bit of psychology will go a long way, in this case, can help us to, as much as possible, shape the interviewers’ sensing, feeling, which influences their thinking as a result.
No matter how a business is seeking diversity, they are looking for one of them – the people who meet certain principles & values, though coming from different background, with different personalities and skill sets.
What will make interviewers endorse you?
- Help them to visualize how you will be part of them, though you will bring fresh views and skill sets.
- You speak their language.
The reason is:
- Familiarity elicits trust.
- Familiarity saves cognitive effort.
In Psychology, there’s one theory called “Mere-Exposure Effect”, or Familiarity bias
- Mirroring the body language? Mirroring the pace and tone of the interviewer? Well, this is not enough, and not completely necessary. It also risks distracting yourself from what the conversation is about and become less authentically you. Personally, I would NOT recommend, unless you can absolutely do this stress-free.
- But the original psychology findings still apply. Why mirroring the other person makes the person like you more?
- The whole idea is to make you look like one of them. You need to disguise / camouflage
- Communication style: Speak their way. Social distance (not social distancing)
- Principles: What are they proud of? Values, things they are proud of, things they definitely will avoid doing. What they portrait in their website, CEO speech, leadership principles
- Worry what they are worried about, and care about what they care: competitors, customers, partnerships; What’s most important in the business model? Be solution-minded.
- Dress code: sit in their office lobby and observe it. Or adjust when you have had a few interviews
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