1. Lack of a good preparation:
A research failure and lack of knowledge are the first mistakes one want to avoid. One has to prepare himself making a good research on the company, the position and for every related questions that may be asked. Therefore, refine your answers to the technical questions, the hard questions and to the frequently asked interview questions. The more you practice, the more professional answers you deliver.
2. Failure to highlight your achievements:
you should provide good examples of your background and skills against the position. Why you are good fit for the position? Sell yourself. Take the opportunity to talk about your past experience and achievements.
3. Few words answers or talking too much:
Answering in one word or too short or answering too long answers or uttering unexpected answers like the wrong things, wrong ideas, incomplete ideas or answers results in the disqualifications of the candidates.
4. Arriving late:
Arriving late at the interview session due to any unavoidable reasons like traffic jam etc may lead to failure in
the job interview.
5. Dressing inappropriately:
First impression is the best impression; make sure that you have to impress the interviewer by your dress. The dress should be ironed. The dressing should be formal light color shirts (white) and dark color pants (black) and formal black shoes.
6. Body language failures:
a poor eye contact, bad handshake, sitting inappropriately and not smiling naturally are the best recipes for losing a job interview. Don’t let nerves get the better of you – relax before an interview. Smile when it seems the right time and keep an eye contact with the interviewer as these little things make a difference.
7. Lack of integrity – un-loyal – a complainer:
Avoid negative speeches and complain – don’t say bad things about previous jobs and employers as this reflects back to you. The first impression you create when you’re negative about someone is that your loyalty and integrity is questionable. How you speak about your previous employers gives an idea of how you’ll speak about the next employers.
8. Interrupting the interviewer:
You should firstly listen carefully to the interviewer questions before answering. You want your answers to be precise and professional. Therefore, respond only after you fully understand the question.
9. Rambling the answer to weaknesses and strengths:
refer to the article interview Q & A. How to answer weakness and strength question.
10. Bringing up personal details:
When answering the questions “tell me about yourself” candidates sometimes think the interviewer wants personal stories – sadly this is not the case. In fact, this is one of the most common interview mistakes. Be sure you have a set clear story about – who you are, what you are about this career and most importantly what you want to achieve from this position. Therefore, avoid offering irrelevant personal details unless you are asked. Refer to the article INTERVIEW Q & A interview question tell us about yourself.
11. Failure to ask good questions:
When it is your turn to ask questions, you should show your interest about the job by asking intelligent questions about the job opportunities and the position duties. Asking questions clearly indicates that you have done your homework about the organization. However, do not ask too many questions for the sake of asking questions – connect yourself to the job and take the initiative to ask technical questions and other questions that present your ambitious to advance your career.
12. Asking about salary:
you should avoid asking about salary during an interview unless and until the interviewer mention this issue. You don’t want the employer think that all you are interested in is how much they pay. Many interviewers want have some details about your salary expectations so let them make the first move. You may ask about salary range only after several interview interactions and at the very end of an interview as a ‘curious’ question.
13. being unprofessional:
Don’t show any informal body language or lack of seriousness or looking unprofessional for the job rather you should look or acts like a professional, responsible ,motivated and showing interests in that job interview.
14. Answering cell phone calls in an interview:
This is one the biggest mistakes and the common mistakes candidates do in the interview halls. This is a reason of distractions of your mind from the interviewer and creating bad or irresponsible images in the mind of the interviewer.
15. Failure to show an interest and motivation about the said job:
Lack of preparations and full knowledge about the company or organizations will results in the lack of the interests in the interview and this further results in the failure in the interview.
16. over confidence:
Do not try to be over confidence at any points of time because over confidence creates bad impressions or attitudes and spoils the talents. you should always be confidence. You should always be honest and humble with the interviewer.
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