why be too professional in an interview could cost you the job so in this video
I'm gonna talk about why being too professional can you actually hurt your
chances at the job you want so a big mistake that a lot of people make is
thinking that they have to be ultra super professional in interviews and I
get why you might think this it makes total sense it seems like that you have
to put on a suit and tie and this is what we're told to do and in some cases
this might be the case I want to share with you a little bit of a perspective
though on professionalism so continuing to believe that you need to be super
impeccably polished and professional is where a lot of people actually go wrong
because if this were true it would mean that a hundred percent of people who
went to the job interview acted completely flawlessly professional would
get hired every time and they don't so what does it mean what do you need to do
what does being professional even mean so when you're going in for an interview
it seems that you'd want to be super professional right well what does
professional even really mean so the definition of professional in the
dictionary is actually this a person engaged in a specific activity as one's
main paid occupation rather than as a pastime or a hobby so basically it just
means that you're someone who gets paid for providing a service or a job or in
this case you're going in for an interview it means that you're going
into a meeting with a person who wants to pay you to do a service or a job in
reality the definition of professionalism isn't what we think it
is it's not wearing a suit and tie or combing your hair really nicely or
speaking really eloquently with big words or having your hair done perfectly
it doesn't actually mean any of that and if you go to the dictionary you'll see
that so being professional actually just means that you get paid for providing a
service being too professional makes a person
more difficult to connect with so someone who is too polished
and too professional for lack of a better word can come across as very
rigid and very difficult to connect with as a human so that's not always gonna be
ideal for the interviewer and so you want to be aware of that and let them
see someone with some personality because if everyone comes in thinking
that they need to be super polished and super exact they can act in such a rigid
specific way that everyone is gonna be the same and they're just not gonna
stand apart because they're just gonna seem like another robot so hopefully
that makes sense so continuing to believe that you need to be ruber
polished could be costing you the job because the interviewer feels like they
can't connect with you on a human level and sometimes that works against you so
that's happened before with me and debrief rooms and interview rooms and I
can tell that if someone would just be a little more themselves show a little bit
more personality they would have done much better and because we're human
beings and we like to feel a connection rather than a disconnection so dress
well be comfortable but be you and make sure you're being yourself because
remember if they like you great if they don't like you that's also great if you
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