Chapter 23
Ten Tips to Avoid Rotten Reviews
In This Chapter
Making a terrific impression
Avoiding interview spoilers
Prepping for a brilliant show
Think about klieg lights sweeping the Hollywood sky. Think about stretch limos pulling up to a theater entrance. Think about celebrities being interviewed by television entertainment show hosts as they make their way up a red carpet into a much-ballyhooed movie premiere. Crazy exciting, right?
Until the next morning, when the reviews appear. Uh oh. Critics rate the movie as a zero out of five stars. The film’s actors are spun off center with verbal depth charges instead of hoped-for praise.
Rotten reviews affect job interviewees, too, even though shortcomings in the performances don’t become public in a newspaper or on a website. When interviewees just don’t hear back, they feel the same way as panned actors: awful.
Don’t let that unhappy ending happen to you. Do everything you can to make your interview performance earn rich reviews. And to help, a master of job search, Joe Turner (www.jobsearchguy.com), a career coach in Phoenix, shares ten ways you can do just that.
Bring Storytelling into Prime Time
An interview is a conversation. ...
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