The document discusses the reasons behind job interview failures from a personal perspective, highlighting the importance of demonstrating potential rather than just competence. It emphasizes that interviews are about human interactions, motivation, and personality fit, rather than solely showcasing skills. The author reflects on their own mistakes and the need to avoid wrong assumptions while preparing for future interviews.

2. Why does a job interview fail
• I want to give you an story about what happens in the course of a job
interview , this story is controversial as well as superficial
• It is Controversial because it is my story and any one
can make a story to explain the truth and the most
successful story usually comes up with a theory
• It is superficial because it shows you a very high level
picture of what happened during one of my job
interview which made me to come up with a right
winning plan for the next one

3. Let me start form the day which I
screwed up with an interview
• It was almost clear that I did not demonstrate anything makes me special in the
interview session
• But I did not appreciate the fact which it was not a heart touching interview
Then what I did …
• I started to make reasons why I am the best ,because ,I did not want to accept the
failure
• It helped me to convince myself that the interview was not fair and the selected
nominate was not the right choice , never the less it did not make my life , my
feeling better

4. Let me start form the day which I
screwed up with an interview
• Then I started to make assumptions and stories that the interview
process and criteria for selecting the person is not clear and …..
• Ishh…..
• I came up with the idea that I need to empower my self for future
interviews

5. Do we have a clear formula that
convinces every body about the
interview result
• No we do not have !
• Imagine you want to buy a House/Car/Shirt is there any formula that
every one refers to that to buy a house?
• Now replace the house and stuff with human being , it becomes more
complicated
• Interview is all about human interactions and passing messages
through different filters

6. Then what?
• Interview is a session which you want to sell your capabilities to
people to use them for the benefit of their company
• Having said the implications of human interactions ; there are
technics which helps us to be a better seller
• Just the golden rule is : don’t make wrong assumptions , you can not
elaborate engineering and formulating an interview to the way that
makes you the best choice

7. What is an interview
• Interview is about knowing the potentials NOT competence
• WHAT “POTENTIAL” MEANS?
• Proof of your resume ,in a simple language ,which shows that you could be considered as a person who can get
succeed in the new job but dose not mean that you have demonstrated any thing of success in the new job
• Interview is about understanding the motivation
• Interview is about understanding the personality fit for the job (e.g.
DISC toolset)
• And the last but not the least it is to understand the attitude and
integrity of the person

8. So you may fail if
• You try to convince people to appreciate the competency which is not
demonstrated instead of showing your potentials
• You try to show yourself very enthusiastic or so-so and arrogant
• If your personality does not fit the job , some times it is as this so
don’t try to be some one else in the interview
• If you start a wrong conversation , show a wrong attitude or body
language our appearance in the meeting

9. This will be my story for the next 30
minutes ….

10. What people look into