I was chatting with a friend the other day and she said this to me: During interviews, it is not only you who are the one selling yourself to the company but the person from the company is also doing ‘sales’ to you to buy.
What was said made sense. Normally when we go for interviews, we will ‘sell’ ourselves – hard sell. We will work very hard to win the interviewer’s heart with our qualifications, experiences and the way we convey our capabilities. The usual lines that we hear go like these:- I m a fast learner or I have hit RMxxxx’000 sales in my previous job…..and so on…
Simply just to get the job and demand for a better salary.
On the other hand, if one is sitting in the employer’s chair, even though the person will put on a straight face and start ‘interrogating’ the interviewee, but there are always possibilities that he or she will be selling the good points of the company; just to get you interested with the job….
It is a 2 way thingy. What say you? At the end of the day, there are some people who really 'sold' themselves to the company.
What was said made sense. Normally when we go for interviews, we will ‘sell’ ourselves – hard sell. We will work very hard to win the interviewer’s heart with our qualifications, experiences and the way we convey our capabilities. The usual lines that we hear go like these:- I m a fast learner or I have hit RMxxxx’000 sales in my previous job…..and so on…
Simply just to get the job and demand for a better salary.
On the other hand, if one is sitting in the employer’s chair, even though the person will put on a straight face and start ‘interrogating’ the interviewee, but there are always possibilities that he or she will be selling the good points of the company; just to get you interested with the job….
It is a 2 way thingy. What say you? At the end of the day, there are some people who really 'sold' themselves to the company.
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