The interview: what they want to hear

By Liz Koblyk. My recent post on interview skills left me with a niggling irritation; it didn’t do enough to distinguish pattern identification from giving canned answers that “they” want to hear. So I’ll take this opportunity to say it more clearly: focusing on “what they want to hear” is among the worst interview mistakes. It’s an approach that leads to un-insightful interview responses and makes interviewees come across as disingenuous. More...