Heartbreaker: Why That Job You Interviewed For Has Been Reposted

Joanne Meehl, MS, IJCDC 🎯

Joanne Meehl, MS, IJCDC 🎯

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Published Mar 1, 2015

Information technology's a heartbreaker when a task candidate tells me they've had an interview, have heard "no thanks" (or nothing), and so come across the very same job reposted. What happened, particularly when they believed they were "perfect for the job"?

A former client of mine I'll call Susan, who landed her Senior Business Analyst job most two years agone, tin can answer that question. She recently wrote to tell me why it'south been so hard to hire two business analysts in her department. It pained her to see good resumes from applicants who then could not make a case for themselves in person. Her visitor has reposted the job in the hopes they discover new candidates who tin make their case. These are her words about what she observed in interviews, slightly edited at her request so as to not identify her or her visitor.

…We are looking for two more Business Analysts…. We had 49 applicants and chose 12 to interview for the first circular and then narrowed those downward to five for the 2nd round of interviews. Of those, nosotros could find only one who we felt comfy hiring. Fifty-fifty though all five were very qualified for the position, we didn't feel comfortable hiring any of the others considering of the following reasons (this was our stance of the Round two interviews):

  • They did not answer the interview questions thoroughly or [they] took so much time answering the question that all three of us on the interview panel quit listening to the respond.
  • They were non well prepared - in fact only ane fabricated a comment or asked a question that was relevant to the job posting or the department or the project, fifty-fifty though they had all been well informed about this project during Circular 1. The projection even has its own public website to access, merely just one of the five really checked it out and did boosted research on this blazon of project.
  • About had prepared either no questions or very poor questions to ask earlier, during, or later on the interview.
  • Almost could not provide a clear respond to the questions "Tell me about yourself" or "What makes you lot uniquely qualified for this position?"
  • Lastly, virtually demonstrated very little free energy well-nigh their desire for the position or about how they could make a difference for the company (and instead focused on why they wanted to piece of work for the company and what the visitor could practise for them)

One of my friends from [a previous company] was i of the second round interviews who I personally know is very well qualified for the position (maybe fifty-fifty overqualified) simply nosotros did not make her the offer because of the above mentioned items. It was very eye-opening to see such well-qualified people fail in the interviews.

Nosotros take re-posted the position.

And then how could those candidates -- or you lot -- increase your chances of getting to Round 3 and to the offering?

Taking each of Susan'southward points, here are some interviewing tips that will show interviewers who you are as a whole person, and why they should hire you:

  • Respond the question that'southward asked. And pay attending to when they have enough of an answer: if center contact is broken and remains cleaved, if they are checking their watch or cell phone or looking off, finish talking. It's all correct if occasionally yous cheque with them by asking, "Does that reply your question?" or similar, simply don't practise information technology later each answer you requite.
  • Exist prepared. Examine the web site across the home page, find people on LinkedIn with the same or like role at that company and see what they say nigh their work. Research like projects past searching on its name and seeing who else is working on a similar project, and meet what they say nigh it. Your curiosity about the organisation and the part will conspicuously come beyond if you do your homework.
  • In that location are so many guides online about "questions to ask in an interview" that it's light-headed this issue even had to be dealt with by Susan and her team. You are not a supplicant: An interview is a business conversation between and among equals virtually a problem they are having that YOU can solve. They are eager to hear what you want to know about them and the effect at hand: it tells them what kind of teammate you would exist.
  • The questions "Tell me nigh yourself" or "What makes you uniquely qualified for this position?" are 2 means of asking the same thing: "How practice y'all match this chore?" You lot should know how you lot match and what you'd bring; afterward all, you applied for the job with these matches in mind. At the interview, it'southward vital y'all communicate them.
  • It's essential you show energy around what your contributions would be. This is shown by not only by bringing up relevant examples of success, and even bringing a brief portfolio, but too by eye contact, hand gestures, leaning forward, and a articulate voice. In that location's fourth dimension to talk later well-nigh benefits and other things the visitor "can exercise for you".

If you lot are reading this, I'm guessing y'all are talented and have solutions that an employer needs, just somehow haven't "clicked". Every bit a recruiter one time said to me, "Tell candidates that all we always know of them is what they tell united states, especially in the interview. And so they must brand certain they lucifer what they'd bring, to what we need." He added, "It's not bragging -- instead, it'south helping ME practice my chore in bringing in the right people."

What's the terrible alternative?

To change goose egg and go along to accept your heart broken.