Gift Of The Gab Now To Get A Job?

imatt

Interesting points. Thats said, there has to be a distinction made between someone who is confident in his / her abilities and is happy to let a potential employer know and an out and out bullsh****r with a case of verbal diarrhea!

I always think it's good to ask as many questions as possible in an interview situation. After all, you are interviewing the company as much as they are you.

Aryndeneth

I agree with imatt. When recruiting I definitely need the candidate to be able to articulate what they can do, what they think of the job etc or else I have no information to make a decision on. However, you can be the most chatty person in the world, but if there's no actual useful content and you're just pouring forth words, you're in the same position as someone who hasn't spoken at all.I will still have no useful new information on which to decide about you and I'll probably be bored from listening to your contentless waffle.

gibson123

Gift of the Gab - no thanks, gobby, gabbling people are the last people I want to interview. If it takes you 10 minutes to answer my question and I have to interrupt you to move on, you have NOT got the job.

Clear concise answers that fully answer the questions I ask, thank you very much. Keep waxing lyrical and setting the world to rights for the pub!!

MissSarah1972

imatt wrote: »

Interesting points. Thats said, there has to be a distinction made between someone who is confident in his / her abilities and is happy to let a potential employer know and an out and out bullsh****r with a case of verbal diarrhea!

I always think it's good to ask as many questions as possible in an interview situation. After all, you are interviewing the company as much as they are you.

Sometimes I think you can ask too many questions and put them off. Then again if you ask hardly none that's wrong too.

RobertoMoir

Truegho wrote: »

Do you think that most employers place too much emphasis now on candidates having the "gift of the gab" rather than professional qualifications and work experience? Because it seems to me that in a lot of these job interviews, they like you to talk and talk.

Not in my experience, no. Employers are looking for effective communicators though.

Truegho wrote: »

The structured interviews (usually used by the Civil Service) and retail role play ones are particularly notable for liking applicants to be extensiverly verbose.

You do realise that most of the jobs in these sectors are either about customer service or about providing support to someone else who provides customer service? The ability to be a good communicator and fit into a team is a valuable work asset in those cases.

Truegho wrote: »

If I were an employer, I would much prefer somebody who could do the job (e.g. work a computer) rather than somebody with the gift of the gab.

These employers should realise that not everybody is chatty. Whatever happened to the good old days when bosses didn't care if you were gabby or not; just as long as you kept your head down and got on with the work.

You need to think about two things:

1. There's a lot of 'teamwork' these days. This requires working well with others.
2. "Getting on with the work" and "having the gift of the gab" are not mutually exclusive binary options. It's quite possible to be an efficient worker and an effective team builder.

I hope you appreciate the relative brevity of my answer, by the way.

Truegho

There speaks a sensible employer!

gibson123 wrote: »

Gift of the Gab - no thanks, gobby, gabbling people are the last people I want to interview. If it takes you 10 minutes to answer my question and I have to interrupt you to move on, you have NOT got the job.

Clear concise answers that fully answer the questions I ask, thank you very much. Keep waxing lyrical and setting the world to rights for the pub!!

tonyh66

I find most of my 'superiors' to be less intelligent and less experienced, but are there because they can 'talk the talk' but not 'walk the walk'
Gobsh***tes rule in the land of smoke and mirrors.

gothic_hobbit

tonyh66 wrote: »

I find most of my 'superiors' to be less intelligent and less experienced, but are there because they can 'talk the talk' but not 'walk the walk'
Gobsh***tes rule in the land of smoke and mirrors.

Sad but true.

Dunroamin

I think that an applicant who can't see the difference between being articulate and being verbose is always going to be at a disadvantage.