Member-only story
3 Things Interviewers Don’t Want You To Know
#2) They compare you to a baseline
Despite having been through a fair number of interviews in my life, I have not once imagined how the process would be from an interviewer’s perspective.
Starting with interviews to crack into a top-notch B-school to internships to jobs to promotions — each one of those interviews helped me in introspecting, collecting my thoughts and showcasing my achievements.
I aced a few and failed a few but never really thought of what’s going on in the interviewer’s mind.
However, recently I got the opportunity to be on the other side of the table, and I learnt something that I never learnt in those umpteen times when I faced an interviewer.
Here are the top 3 things that interviewers do not tell you.
1) They are skim-reading your resume
They are most likely scanning through your 10–15 years of work for less than 10–15 mins.
You must understand they are juggling other priorities. They are under pressure so make their job easy for them.
While it is an absolute must that hiring managers invest time to understand the candidate, what can help the interviewer would be if they receive the critical data…
