Be Honest In Your Job Search

Be Honest In Your Job Search






Paint an honest picture of yourself

This is our seventh blog on offering you tips to get a job. This one looks at honesty being the best policy and painting an accurate picture of yourself when putting your resume together for a prospective employer or indeed attending a job interview. A recruiter wants to see the real you and what you have to offer.  

Honesty is always the best policy. At the interview stage your main focus should be to impress a potential employer, but if your behaviour and demeanour changes on your first day - should you be successful in your application - you won't keep the job very long.  Don't put yourself under a lot of stress to put in a stellar perfect performance at the interview, if you know you wont be able to sustain it from one day to the next.  You'll disappoint your new employer and yourself as well. If you aren't confident about the real you, hiding behind a persona won't help in the long term.

The same goes with your resume. Don't be tempted to embellish or tell so called white lies - you'll only end up ruining your chances by exaggerating  or saying something that wouldn't have mattered anyway. Never swear in an interview - not even mildly, and not even if the interviewer swears themselves or if you think they're as young and cool as you. An Interviewer probably won't mind a bit of bad language in ‘real life' but they'll want to see that you know how to speak politely and behave in different scenarios and adjust to different levels of formality. This will be especially true if the job you're applying for involves speaking to or dealing with members of the public or representatives of other businesses.

The key message is to add a bit of polish but not invent anything. The former will impress upon the recruiter your commitment to the role; the latter could lose you the job.

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