Awkward but Sure Way To Get Hired by your Interviewer

The job market has become so competitive that every candidate needs to device a means of acing every stage of his/her recruitment.

Starting from applying for the job, getting invited for and passing the job assessment test to interviews which many think is somewhat the last and easiest stage of a recruitment process. But unfortunately, many candidates after successfully making it to this last stage, still get dropped.

I personally have used the technique I'll be discussing in this post and it have worked for me. In as much as you (candidate) need to equip yourself with the knowledge of the role you will be interviewing for, and researching about the organization, it will be wise of you to know that every candidate for that position has do so much to know what you have known. Meaning, all of you are virtually going to be telling your interviewer the same boring story.

In a position where 10 candidates are interviewing for and only one candidate is needed, the best candidate then is that person who is able to somehow leave a memorable impact on his/her interviewer(s).

Here is the crazy technique:

Your interviewers are human beings like you and have as at one point in their lives been in your shoe. So, wave away that fear that you would be sitting in front of semi-gods. Confidence in this situation is key. Although many can't help but still get nervous, try to maintain your calm and prove yourself.

Majority interview invites comes with names of your interviewer(s). Do a quick social media (google, facebook, linkedin, etc) search on them. Know the people you would be interviewing with before time. If you are lucky with your search, you would trace your way to find some of them active on forums like nairaland.com, etc. Hold onto some key points about any of them from your search.

On the day of your interview, try to answer your interviewers questions accordingly and intelligently to the best of your knowledge. At the point they ask if you have any questions for them, ask any question related to the job you are being interviewed for and then go further to ask your interviewer(s)personal but intriguing questions from the research/social media search you conducted on them. Doing this, you automatically have caught your interviewers' attention and such person might recommend you for the job.

In my case, after telling one of my interviewers some unexpected things about him, he had no other option to recommend me for the job.

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