A job candidate who used a preparation agency shouldn't hide it or feel guilty during an interview. Admit it confidently, mention your own work too, and never lie about how you prepared.
Hello, my friends. You know, when some companies recruit, they hold selection days, sometimes even several selection days where they bring in loads of people. And then, well, you know, sometimes they have 10 positions, they bring in 100 people, and then 90% of the people will not be selected.
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You find this in some banks, finance companies. There are even universities that do this. Highly regarded universities have selections at the entrance. We also have airlines. Okay, we have that too. So here someone contacted me on WhatsApp.
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He told me that an airline company was holding a selection day and went to their place. Well, not saying that, but saying that he arrived at their place. And then we asked him a question. Are you prepared for this interview? But prepared, because in reality there are companies that do preparation. That means that, for example, whatever the field, when there are online selections, there are always companies that prepare for these selections. There are companies, you can go and tell them, I know one in Lander. You can tell them, I would like to apply to EasyJet. Give me your CV. Come on, we'll do interviews. They do everything for you. They have nothing to do with it, but they know the types of questions that EasyJet asks. They know what they are looking at, they know their selection criteria and then they can help you. That means what they are going to do, they are not going to interact with the recruiting company, but what they are going to do is give you feedback. They are going to say, listen here, we asked you questions there you performed well on such and such a question. There you said things. I think you need to work on that answer better your cv. I would like you to highlight this or that element because this company interests them and so on. So what they are going to do is to mentally prepare you for what you are going to face. In reality, the question this person received was, did you go through a preparation agency? He felt guilty and took this preparation badly. He thought that maybe this preparation is forbidden or he shouldn't do it, otherwise he just had to look into it. He got stuck on the answer and that created a false note. Subsequently, he was not selected. Okay, now, how do you answer this type of question? First of all, and this is general, it's not only in this specific, specific case that I'm giving you. In general, when you are asked questions, sometimes the questioner, the recruiter doesn't have any bad intentions in mind at all. You're the one who's making up stories. You're the one who feels guilty. You've blocked yourself out. You've completely locked yourself in. You've locked yourself out here in your head, because you're the one who felt guilty. But he didn't have any bad intentions behind that question, but the fact that you felt guilty, you had a bad attitude at that time and afterwards. Okay, so it's been on you all along. How do you answer this kind of question? Are you prepared? So I'll give you an answer. Do what you want with it, adapt it to yourself. I'll give it to you, shorten it, lengthen it, add things to it. I'll just give you an example of an answer. First of all, don't panic. First of all, have you prepared yourself here? Have you worked with agencies that prepare you for interviews in financial analysis or for students or for pilots, etc. Keep your eyes on the interviewer and say yes. Yes. Because I'm not someone who does things or leaves them to chance. This job is very important to me. It's an opportunity that I've been considering for a very long time and that I've worked hard on. So I prepared myself. I go to my grandmother's house twice a week, and every time I go, I check the traffic on the Internet, even though I know the route perfectly, because I don't leave things to chance. Okay, you've just done two things with that.
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Just in quotation marks, you've mentioned something interpersonal. You've mentioned a personal anecdote, which is a good thing. And you've also mentioned equality. Yes. I don't do things by chance.
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That's not my style. That's not the company's style. Before coming here, I spoke to pilots or financiers or employees who currently work for you, who have worked for you in the past. I spoke to these people. And in addition to talking to them, well, they gave me advice. Advice on your values. On. Advice on what the company expects from its employees, what the company expects from its candidates. So the question you asked me, I didn't know that you were going to ask me. I didn't know it in advance, just as I don't know the question you're going to ask me in a minute. But for the rest, yes, absolutely. I prepared well before coming here.
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You see the thing? I gave you an answer. You don't have to go on for as long as I did, but I'm going on purpose to give you several types of arguments or approaches to embracing things. You are who you are. You do something. Embrace it.
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Just relax and look yourself in the eye. Don't lie, though. Why? Because sometimes. Let me tell you something. Sometimes in the selection process, they have really twisted questions that no one has ever answered. They don't expect it to be answered. You just answered that. You went through a preparation organization because they gave you the answer. So you're one of the few, if it happens that they have 20 people, there are two who answered this question. So they come to you. Did you go through? Okay, so in that case, you have to let loose. You don't really have a choice.
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You have to tell the truth.
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Because otherwise. Well, otherwise. Lying that hard? I really advise you against it. I advise you against it. Especially since specialized worlds are very small, and sometimes you can even know in advance that you've been to a place like this. So avoid lying. Thank you, my friends.
