how to be "personable" for interviews?

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skim milk

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what do they want?

I've been told that I'm personable from someone in the past but I was never fully confident in my personality (because I was a geek in h.s. and college :laugh:).
In everything else I'm confident... ability to do the job, my integrity, life background, etc. I always had a problem with the fit with the firm area. In interviews, this seem to matter a lot and it usually works against me. When people get to know me, I'm a real genuine and personable person, I just keep a wall around me in the beginning for a while. I get along with people great... at a working environment, but I do keep them at a distance.

Anyway, I have a phone screen interview in the morning, wish me luck.
 
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spittledip

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Be yourself and be honest, but also be diplomatic when it comes to expressing negative opinions, especially about former employers. In other words, dont say anything negative about former employers :p
 
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destrekor

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Don't stumble like me on the spot when they ask for questions like "oh what do you best" and "what are your strongest points". :laugh: Then again, these were never job interviews but rather personal interviews for military scholarships. I had nothing to sell so I couldn't exactly sell myself. How I thought I could compete with 4.0 scholar students who had all this extracurricular shit I had no clue. But I tried. And failed miserably. :laugh:
If it was a job interview and it was a job track I had experience in, I can sell myself a whole lot better. But broad range questions with nothing to show for it hit me hard.

Just know you're selling yourself. In the interview, basically be positive about everything... about any failures you've had, describe how they've helped put you where you are now as a more capable individual. Sell your strongest points and try not to focus on any weak points, as likely they won't matter in the job but on a personal level could show you aren't confident and aren't well rounded.
Act likes a salesmen. Sell the high points, skip the low points unless asked, then do as best you can to sell those in a glowing light too, again like earlier... describe positive progress and that you're better in those areas now then you had been, not necessarily revealing they are weaker points than the others. Sell sell sell! :p
But don't make it obvious your trying to sell yourself. That's the key point. Over cockiness can work against you too. Be personable when you admit weak points but do as best you can to turn them positive.
Not knowing you or your position it's hard to be any more helpful than that.
 
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tellastar

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yeah, just smile, be personable and dont get nervous throughout the interview.be prepared and concentrate on projecting a pleasant, relaxed, confident image.

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xeemzor

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Originally posted by: loki8481
positive, nice, but not so fake that you come across as a complete a total douchebag.
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It's really hard to answer some of those questions without just spewing an insane amount of BS. I guess it's just who can BS the most and remain believable.
 
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Mo0o

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Just smile and dont be too terse with your responses. Dont be afraid to make small talk with fellow interviewees if there are some around
 
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JEDIYoda

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If you forget not to pick your nose and you fo happen to pick your nose I suggest you offer the first buger to the person interviewing you!! Before you eat it!!
 
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JJChicken

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Have some idle chit chat with them. I was talking to HR once and I asked what they did for their weekend and they said they went to watch tennis and then I took it from there. Best of luck man!
 
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