I'm unable to get a got through normal interview

theoretica

When I have been involved with recruitment we have often had lots of very skilled people apply for only one job. Good jobs will be sought after and employers will usually be selecting between people they believe could do the job well. This means that honest feedback may well be something quite small lost you the job, and you need to be strong in more than the technical skills in order to be the successful candidate.

asajj

When I interview candidates, I ask them what they do outside work - not because I'm interested in their personal life to the point of being noisy but because I want to see whether they would fit in the team/company. Most companies don't want just someone to come and do the work and go home. You will spend a reasonable amount of your day with these people, so you want someone mildly interesting, easy-going etc.

When I'm being interviewed by someone else, I ask them what do they like about working in the place, how is the workplace culture and also general questions about company i.e. how many staff/teams they have in the office.

Your proposed question reads a bit agressive to me and you have been given a lot of good advise here. Don't take it personal and don't ask for feedback if you aren't ready to accept it.

trailingspouse

I often have to interview candidates for jobs that aren't in my skill set - if I could do the job, I wouldn't need to be employing someone else to do it for me! I've rejected people because they've sounded patronising, because they've been defensive, or (in one case) they've been so boring that I lost the will to live during the interview. I'm sure they were all perfectly capable of doing the work (that's what the CV's for). You apply for a job because you want to work with them. The interview is to see if they want to work with you.


What do you think they meant by 'all over the place'? Did they mean in a physical sense of not being able to sit still, not being able to locate the paperwork you brought with you etc? (Which could be down to nerves or not being organised). Or are they referring to how you answered questions? Lost the gist of what you were saying, went off at a tangent, didn't answer the question?


I've always found it helpful to write down the questions I was asked in an interview afterwards, and then write down the answers that I wish I'd given. Many questions are the same at every interview, so for the next interview you'll have your answer all ready. And for the occasional 'off the wall' question, if it makes you think a little bit outside of the box, there's no harm, and it might just make you more able to answer the next 'off the wall' question.

Sncjw

If you can’t get through several interviews do you not think the problem is you.

ReadingTim

Sncjw wrote: »

If you can’t get through several interviews do you not think the problem is you.

It's the OP's inability to recognise that they are the problem, which is the problem.

Ergates

Firstly, this needs to be stated: You're not as smart as you think you are. If you were, this thread wouldn't exist.

midimanuser wrote: »

[Question] Apart from my technical skills, is there anything else that you would like to me explain again, or are you aware of anything else that would prevent me from getting this job ?

The fact that you apparently can't see what's wrong with asking this question speaks volumes about your lack of interpersonal skills. You might view interpersonal skills as unimportant - but any job, even the most techie of techie jobs will involve a large amount of interacting with other humans. If you're not very good at that then you won't be very good at the job.

The people who are interviewing you might not be technical, but they're the ones who will have to manage you. If you come across as someone who would be a pain in the !!!! to manage (which you *really* do in this tread) then they'll turn you down. From the way you've presented yourself in this thread, I wouldn't employ you.

Wise up, or get used to unemployment.

GlasweJen

You remind me of a friend of a friend. I was out for dinner in this guys company, everyone at the table was a new graduate and we were all in graduate positions except this chap. Conversation is flowing about his interviews and he was at the stage where he was going for all sorts of roles even some that weren't remotely related to his degree.

One interviewer had asked him about this and queried if he was sure that he would be up to the challenges of the job. Of course! He replied, after all his sister had managed to hold down such a job so it couldn't be that hard.