CHAPTER 3
Powerful Phrases for Opening and Closing the Initial Interview
The job interview is a staged, contrived event. It does not have anything to do with your ability to do a job. Although the job interview is supposedly a mutual evaluation of your past record and talents and a prediction of how you’re going to perform in the future, as well as your personal evaluation of the hiring organization, it is rarely any of these things.
Each party in this process is putting his or her best foot forward, and rightfully so. Candidates are responsible for selling themselves to the employer, trying to convince the employer that they are the best person for the job. The company (or the individuals representing it) is trying to find the best person to ...
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