Beware This Interview Trap

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All interviewers know the kinds of questions they aren’t allowed to ask. How old are you? Do you have a family? Do you or your family have health issues? But savvy interviewers can elicit a lot of information from you, while not asking questions that violate employment law. This kind of information can eliminate you from consideration even if you meet all the stated requirements. Knowing about the risks you face can help you plan for it. Consider that even if an interviewer isn’t trying to trap you, if you give it away, all this information will factor into their decision.


A useful interviewing technique is to make you feel as comfortable as possible. While hiring romania phone number library managers may actually care about your comfort, your personal life and want you to like them, others hope you get relaxed enough to reveal more information than you should. They might talk about their family and how the company supports work-life balance. This invites you to talk about your family, but don’t. Until you are hired, you want them to think that you live for work and can’t wait to get started on your first 10-hour day.



A parallel approach is to take a tough interview stance designed to rattle you into talking. Though less common, it often has the same effect. Your well-planned answers dry up, you get tongue-tied and you say more than you wanted to.



Interviews at meals or coffee shops can be similarly disarming. It’s always easier to be in ‘interview mode’ when you are escorted into an office or conference room at the company site.