Job Interview Coming Up? Put On Your Consulting Glasses by: Liz Ryan *Published on Forbes.com

If you take the perspective of a hiring manager  who’s going to conduct a bunch of interviews one after the other, you’ll see why it’s so important for you to change the interview script. As a job-seeker, you have to wake up the interviewer’s sleepy  brain.

As soon as the interviewer slips into the script, you’ve lost him or her. Do you know what the hiring manager is thinking, the minute s/he gets finished saying “Why don’t you walk me through your resume?” and you start talking? The manager is thinking “If I can get out of here at 4:15 p.m. I can make it to the dry cleaner before they close.”

They’re not really paying attention to you as you walk through your career history. They’re off in the their own mind somewhere.

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