Tessa Davis says candidates sabotage themselves by rushing to fill silence after interview questions. Pausing to think before you speak improves clarity and helps you connect with interviewers instead of rambling through filler words.
The most common place where people go wrong in their consultant interviews is that they don't allow silence. It's really common that the second the interviewer finishes asking you the question, you start talking. And that's because we're afraid of silence. We might fill the void with ums or errs, or that's a really interesting question. Or sometimes we hear the question, we think, I know how to answer that, and we just start talking the second they finished because we know the answer. But then once we start talking, we realize actually I hadn't planned what I was gonna say after this. I need to come up with something else, but we're already talking. So that time when you're talking and answering the question, but you're also trying to think of the next thing, it's too stressful. And it means that you're not really present. You can't really connect with the panel because you're away in your head thinking about the next thing.
