It’s a well-known fact that an interview can make or break your chances of getting a job, regardless of how impressive your resume is or how great a fit you believe you are for the job. To have a great interview, there some things or habits (mistakes) you should ensure you avoid to improve your chances of excelling in an interview. Jumia Travel, the leading online travel agency, shares 4 common interview mistakes that can cost you a job.

Oversharing

As much as possible, you should try to remember that you’re speaking to an interviewer not a gist partner. Sometimes, in an attempt to project confidence, an interviewee might become way too chatty, sharing unnecessary details of events he/she has no business talking about in an interview. Be sure to keep your nerves in check and stick to more straight to the point answers. Practicing your approach to interview questions beforehand can go a long way in helping you succeed.


Answering Questions in a Rehearsed Way

At the end of the day, interviewers want to genuinely interact with an interviewee and get some insight into his/her true nature and character. This is difficult to do when the interviewee is almost robotic with responses and mannerisms. Even if you have come across the questions asked before, try as much as possible to be authentic with your answers and to let your personality come through. Smile, loosen up a little and don’t be stiff, regardless of how terribly nervous you might feel.


Not Being Smart With Your Mannerisms

Nobody wants a dull, slow or unresponsive person as an employee, as a result interviewers tends to be put off by interviewees that are not smart and quick-witted with their mannerisms. Try as much as you can to avoid talking slowly when answering or asking questions. Project your voice when you speak, avoid sounding dull and speaking in low tones. Make appropriate eye contact (don’t stare down at the interviewer) and also avoid talking too quickly. Ensure you’re audible when you speak and you’re voice projects as much confidence as you can muster, regardless of how nervous you feel.


Giving Uninformed Answers to Questions About the Company

If don’t know something about the company, you should refrain for scrambling to come up with just any answer to the question. Ensure you do your research about the company of course, but if there is something you don’t know, be tactful with how you answer the question. You can offer to share the information you do know or are sure of about the company. Or you can apologize for the oversight, and assure the interviewer you will extend your research and learn the answer to the question asap. This might not totally save you, but it’s much better than giving an uninformed answer. However, you should ensure as much as you can that this never happens and you do your research well enough to answer any question about the company.

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Sometimes, you get all these things right, you won't still get the job.

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I have failed aptitute tests before but never an interview. Well, for interviews, I think the key is just to be yourself. Answer questions normally and objectively, do not get afraid of what the next question will look like nor get tensed. Just listen carefully and answer as smartly as you can. No ehm.....ehm...ehm....if you do not know the answer to a question, state it and do not beat about the bush. If you need clarifications, ask! What has worked for me most is the way I look at interviewers/ interviewer into the eyes. A lady interviewer once asked me to please stop looking at her because I made her feel shy rather than make me feel shy. While looking straight into her eyeballs and paying attention as she asked her questions, she could not gather her thoughts together anymore and had to restart the questions . I got the job! Show confidence , never look down, smile if something amuses you and laugh if a question is funny. Just be yourself. After all, they are not going to flog you. Above all, value yourself, never show desperation, go with the mentality that the company needs you more than you need them and it is theirs to lose if they do not hire you and remember to take a long, slow, deep breathe before you go face the panel.

Hmm

I am yet to

I am yet to meet a company with well trained HRM in interview venues. Each time I am interviewed, I used to see a group of people who are playing the role of SSS. They are only after those that will say what they can afford to pay.

Wish me well people, I have one interview tomorrow here in Port Harcourt. A design/construction firm.

Cool.

RobbStark:
Wish me well people, I have one interview tomorrow here in Port Harcourt.
A design/construction firm.

Tell them they need to employ u and fast so u can build a wall.Winter is coming and the white walkers aren't joking

uzoexcel:

Tell them they need to employ u and fast so u can build a wall.Winter is coming and the white walkers aren't joking

Lol!
I will tell them that. Tnx

naturalwaves:
I have failed aptitute tests before but never an interview. Well, for interviews, I think the key is just to be yourself. Answer questions normally and objectively, do not get afraid of what the next question will look like nor get tensed. Just listen carefully and answer as smartly as you can. No ehm.....ehm...ehm....if you do not know the answer to a question, state it and do not beat about the bush. If you need clarifications, ask! What has worked for me most is the way I look at interviewers/ interviewer into the eyes. A lady interviewer once asked me to please stop looking at her because I made her feel shy rather than make me feel shy. While looking straight into her eyeballs and paying attention as she asked her questions, she could not gather her thoughts together anymore and had to restart the questions . I got the job! Show confidence , never look down, smile if something amuses you and laugh if a question is funny. Just be yourself. After all, they are not going to flog you. Above all, value yourself, never show desperation, go with the mentality that the company needs you more than you need them and it is theirs to lose if they do not hire you and remember to take a long, slow, deep breathe before you go face the panel.

Go and wewe; i mean pee if your confidence is failing too and put a smile when you almost get to the interviewer present and greet them politely and expect them to speak before you respond.

sunnx:


Go and wewe; i mean pee if your confidence is failing too and put a smile when you almost get to the interviewer present and greet them politely and expect them to speak before you respond.

Funny you @ wewe. Greet them politely in what way? By bowing your head or what? . I think a smile with a simple " Good morning" or " good morning ladies and gentlemen " would do.

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Common Job Interview Mistakes That Can Cost You a Job, When you are going for a job interview this is what you should have in mind that an interview can make you or break your chances of ever getting that dream job you want, no matter how great and how impressive your resume or CV is.