Can I be honest in interview..??..

**ratewhore** · 4 August 2009, 10:23

Sounds like a crap interviewer as well.

An interview is your sales pitch.

End of...

**scooterscot** · 4 August 2009, 10:36

Originally posted by ratewhore View Post

Sounds like a crap interviewer as well.

An interview is your sales pitch.

End of...

WHS.

Don't loose sleep over it, put all your energies into the next opportunity.

**Not So Wise** · 4 August 2009, 11:29

Originally posted by ratewhore View Post

An interview is your sales pitch.

WHS
Normally when doing "interviews" I try to start it off by getting client to tell me about role/project then using that info "Sell" myself on why I am right for the role and questioning the client for more details about them/the project and using that to further my case even more

If I get asked in the whole interview much more than "Would you like something to drink?"/ "Did You have far to travel?" /"When are you available to start?" it means I have done something wrong or I got some idiot interviewing me, who knows nothing about role/project or even worse, is from HR

Once walked out of a interview when I got a real stupid example of a HR bod interviewing me, knew nothing about about the role or project, what i did, nothing, just had a list of questions he did not understand, never mind the understanding the answers.

**PinkPoshRat** · 4 August 2009, 14:50

I sometimes wish I had the balls to ask the interviewer the following:

Is this role real, and has it been signed off by your procurement dept.?

Am I just sat here to make up the numbers so that the interview process appears to be fair, but in reality someone else has already been offered the job?

Is my agency on your PSL, and if so when does their contract with you expire?

Will you reimburse me for my expenses for travelling here today?

Alas I have no balls

**CarterUK** · 4 August 2009, 17:55

If those were the actual answers you gave, it's good being honest but you might have come across a little negative? Give an honest answer but if it's not going to get you the contract, you could try following up your answers with more positive-ness [sic].

Q: Are you being interviewed any where else..??
A: I am talking to couple of people for suitable roles.

"....but I'm really interested to hear more about this role."

Yep, roll out the cheese but if it bags you the contract....

**BolshieBastard** · 4 August 2009, 18:48

Originally posted by Darren_Test View Post

Guys,

After long bench period last week I attended couple of interviews. Unfortunately nothing positive yet..I think I might have lost it being honest during interview...Can we honest during interview..?

Fortunately or unfortunately I answered honestly for client queries like..

Q: Are you being interviewed any where else..??
A: I am talking to couple of people for suitable roles.

Q: In a scale of 1-10 where you stand on ---??
A: 6 (I was just average on that skill)

Q: Do you have any experience in ------??
A: No (I didn't had any experience through I could have related some of my experience with that technology)

Q: Weakness..?
A: Did not give ant typical answer, saying that no weakness that could affect carrying out a role like this..!!

Did I answer very badly.. by being honest..???

If you expanded your answers unlike the tulip one sentence replies above, there's no reason not to be truthful but be careful how you answer stuff.

**Ardesco** · 4 August 2009, 21:27

Don't try to blag loads of experience in something you know nothing about. You'll look like a right twat when they hire you and you go in knowing nothing.

IMHO best is to say you have done a bit of work in that area, then throw in some small scale blag and finish off with a little sales pitch saying how you can pick things up quickly and if they let you know which areas they are interested in you can do some background research to get yourself up to speed. You then leave yourself the option of saying, I haven't done anything in that area of said technology when the interviewer starts firing awkward questions at you, and you'll get a heads up for some home time cramming assuming you get the gig.

**Darren_Test** · 4 August 2009, 22:12

thanks guys..

But no price to guess outcome of my interview..!!
It was as expected a flop...any way good lessons..next time let me try to bull***t as much as I can...

**explorer** · 4 August 2009, 22:27

Originally posted by Darren_Test View Post

next time let me try to bull***t as much as I can...

hey mate, i don't think you still get the point...what everyone here has been trying to tell you is that you need not necessarily be dishonest to put across yr situation in an interview...where you essentially failed was tulipe-sounding one word answers, which could have been expressed better, and i think you know that, for instance, you yourself admitted that you could have related yr exp with what the interviewer was looking for, in answer to one of his ques..

Can I be honest in interview..??..