Beware The Excited Interviewer

Beware of the excited interviewer. They might be a damn good sales person. I don't like to be pushed and I don't like to be sold to. My time is too precious and so is yours.

When you get on the phone with someone, whether it is a recruiter or the hiring manager be careful of the person that spend too much time telling you that this is an exciting opportunity rather than telling you why. they need to explain to you the reasoning behind their thoughts why.

This usually happens with recruiters that are really good at selling people on jobs. They are also usually really skilled at getting people to accept horrible positions that they normally wouldn't want to do. Then you end up in a position that you hate and are waiting for the time to expire on the clock.

That's not the place where you want to be. You want to take some control over the interview in a situation like that. How do you do that?

• Take some control in the conversation.
• Break in with your comments on what you have done that has to do with what they are saying.
• Let them know you are listening and that you agree or disagree. Note: If you disagree you better have a great example and have a great reason that supplies the interviewer with some groundbreaking research.

The interviewer won't know what you don't tell them. So if you have the excited talkative interviewer on the other line of the phone or in person take some control. They usually aren't skilled interviewers and if you don't take control they will usually walk away with a poor impression of you.