By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter invokes a memory of the Broadway show, “Cats” to remind you of making your answers to interview questions seem fresh.
When is Do You Say Enough Is Enough?
I want to talk with you about one of the mistakes the job hunters make way too often. It is the me a mistake but very experienced job hunters make. It’s the mistake of letting their interviewing get stale.
What often happens is that the job hunter has been on so many interviews and they were asked the same questions repeatedly.
Why are you looking for a job?
Tell me about yourself?
Do you have any questions for us?
Even if you’re in the area with very specialized skills, the question start to get very predictable. The result is that people start to get bored with the interview and get stale.
Understand that from the employer’s perspective, they are only hearing your answer for the first time even if you answered the same question for others 20 times.
Someone remind you of something that I learned many years ago. I used to live in New York. Do you remember the play, “Cats?” The one with the song, “Memories?”
I thought about it one day that in this long-running show (a, yes, the cast changed many times over the years) and that normally cast members and apart for at least a year or so. This performer is saying the same lines, seeing the same songs, night after night. They are performing six days a week, eight shows a week. Their commitment is to make it seem as fresh as it was on opening night. After all, the audience may only be watching the show for the first time and they are paying full price.
You can’t imagine that the actors and actresses have gotten bored by now is saying the same things and singing the same songs over and over and over again.
Remember, your job is to be like performer in a Broadway show on opening night, delivering your lines like it is on opening night, making each performance seem fresh, just like this performer stating, “Cats” so that the audience can see you in your magnificence and applaud ferociously at the end of the performance.
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