What Color Is Your Parachute 2018 by Richard N. Bolles copy

CHAPTER 4
Sixteen Tips About Interviewing
for a Job
Now, hunting for one of those ten million vacancies that are out there each
month, will inevitably involve interviewing, sooner or later. And the word
“interview” strikes terror into the heart of many—if not most—jobhunters.
Well, it needn’t. Interviews aren’t just “for a job.” There are many
types of interviews, so this topic shouldn’t be intimidating. I can think of
three kinds of interviews right off the bat, that arise during a job-hunt
(which I touched on in chapter 1). They are distinguished from each other
by what you are looking for, and more importantly, who you are talking to:
1. Interviews for fun or practice. Here you are talking with people
who are passionate about something that you are, too—be it
Hawaii, scrapbooks, travel, physical fitness, running, or whatever.
Oh, you would just call these “conversations”? Okay, then:
conversations.
2. Interviews for information, where you are talking with employees
who did or do the job you are exploring; or maybe you’re talking with
information specialists, or with experts in the industry that interests
you. Oh, you would just call these “conversations”? Okay, then:
conversations.
3. Interviews for a job, where you are talking with employers, and
most particularly with the person who actually has the power to
hire you for the job you want, rather than an HR interviewer whose
first job is to screen out as many candidates as possible. You want
information. Oh, you wouldn’t call these “conversations”? Well, I
would.
This chapter is going to be about this third kind of interview or