If you’re getting plenty of job interviews without any job offers, it’s time to think about what could be going wrong. Since you’re making it past the initial screening, the problem is unlikely to be your résumé or cover letter. That means that it could be your interview skills, something about your experience that isn’t obvious from your résumé or even your references. Here are six ways to explore why you’re not getting job offers.
1. Check your references. It’s possible that your chances are falling apart post-interview when employers call your references. Even if you think your references are glowing, you might be surprised to find that’s not the case. It’s worth having a trusted, professional-sounding friend call your references and make sure that nothing is being said that could hold you back.
1. 檢查自己的推薦信。面試失敗很可能是因為雇主看了你的推薦信。雖然你認為自己的推薦信充滿亮點,但事實可能并非如此。讓一個信得過的、專業(yè)的朋友幫你看推薦信是十分必要的,這個朋友可以幫你檢查推薦信里是否有給你減分的內(nèi)容。
2. Try some mock interviews with someone who can assess your interviewing skills. Have a friend or other contact conduct a mock interview with you and give you feedback on how you’re coming across. The ideal person to help you with this is someone who has significant experience doing hiring, but as long as your helper is blunt and relatively insightful, you should get some helpful feedback this way.
2. 嘗試模擬面試,找到可以給自己進行面試技巧評估的人。找一個朋友或其他相關(guān)的人為自己進行一場模擬面試,之后提供一些反饋。一個在招聘方面經(jīng)驗豐富的人是最理想的人選。不過只要你的幫助者夠直率且見解深刻,你都會得到有益的反饋。
3. Ask for feedback from past interviewers. Reach out to any past interviewers with whom you felt particular rapport and ask if you can buy them coffee and pick their brain for 20 minutes about how you can become a stronger candidate. Your email request could sound something like this: “I really appreciate you taking the time to talk with me about the assistant manager job last week. I want to ask you a favor: Could I buy you coffee and pick your brain for 20 minutes about how I can better position myself for this type of work? Please know that I’m not seeking a reconsideration of your decision, just asking for any insights that might help me move closer to the type of work I’d like to do. I know you’re busy, so if a phone call is easier, I’d be grateful for that as well!”
3.咨詢之前面試官的意見。找到之前的面試官,你覺得這些人很友好,就問一問是不是可以和他們喝杯咖啡,耽誤他們20分鐘問問他們的意見,怎樣才可以成為更有競爭優(yōu)勢的候選人。你可以這樣發(fā)一封電子郵件:“我真的十分感謝上周您花時間和我談了助理經(jīng)理這份工作。不知道您是不是可以幫我一個忙:不知道有沒有機會和您喝杯咖啡,耽誤您20分鐘時間,和您談?wù)勗鯓硬拍茏屪约焊m合這類工作?請明白,我不是希望您重新考慮自己的決定,我只是想想您請教如何才能使自己更適合這類工作。我知道您很忙,所以如果可以和您通一次電話,我也會十分感謝。
4. Look at who was ultimately hired for the jobs you interviewed for. Go back and look at the positions you interviewed for but didn’t get, and see who ended up getting the job. Search the company’s website or LinkedIn to find out who they hired and what that person’s background is. You might learn that the people who are beating you out have more experience or a different type of background, and that information can help inform your thinking about what types of jobs to pursue.
4. 關(guān)注成功獲得你面試職位的人。回去看一看自己面試失敗的職位,看一看誰最終得到了那份工作。查看該公司的網(wǎng)站或者LinkedIn,看一看該公司錄取人員是誰,并查看這個人的背景是怎樣的。你可能會看到這個把你踢出局的人經(jīng)驗更豐富,或者有一個不同的背景。這樣的信息可以幫助自己了解這類工作要找的人是怎樣的。
5. Change the way you’re preparing for interviews. How much interview prep do you do before each meeting? The reality is, the more you’re prepared, the better you’ll usually do. If you're not practicing your answers to likely questions and preparing examples from your past work that clearly demonstrate why you'd excel at the job, this might be why your interviews aren’t panning out. Try changing the way you prepare and see if the outcome changes.
5. 改變面試準備方式。每次面試之前,你都做了多少準備?事實是,準備越充分,表現(xiàn)會越好。如果對于相關(guān)問題沒有做出一定練習,或者沒有對之前的工作經(jīng)驗—可以說明自己勝任這份工作—做出明確說明,很可能導致面試失敗。改變自己的面試方式,看一看是不是結(jié)果也不同了。
6. Ask yourself whether your frustration is coming across to interviewers. If you’ve been job searching for a while, you might be feeling frustrated or desperate. And while that’s understandable, if interviewers pick up on it, it can be the kiss of death for job offers. If you know that you’re radiating negativity, you might be better off taking a break from your search until you can approach interviews with less emotional baggage.
6. 問問自己的低落情緒是否影響到了面試官。如果已經(jīng)找了一段時間的工作,自己很可能出現(xiàn)迷惑或絕望。雖然這可以理解,但是如果面試官看到這一點,這對求職是致命的。如果你渾身上下都充滿了負能量,最好是休息一段時間,不要找工作,直到?jīng)]有太多精神包袱的時候,再開始找工作。
失敗一次不要氣餒,我們要總結(jié)經(jīng)驗繼續(xù)加油呀~