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Contrary to popular belief money is
not the highest priority to a recruiter when interviewing. An
employer is looking to find out if their highest priorities are
met. If they are, money then becomes a subject of negotiation that
follows an interview.
Experienced interviewers will always look to find the best person
for the role being offered. It often happens that they do not find
a perfect match between the pool of people that have shown an
interest and what they are looking for. So just because you know
that you are not a perfect match, don't count yourself out because
you may be the best person that they interviewed.
What then are the areas that an interviewer will
broadly base their decision on? Their areas of interest (or
concern) are:
1) Can you
do the job and how well?
- do you have the skills needed to be productive and make a
positive contribution quickly?
- have you done this job elsewhere and if so how successful
were you?
- if you
haven't already done this job do you have the potential to do it
and how successfully?
2) Will you do the job?
- are you sufficiently motivated,
have the self-confidence and possess the energy level to do the
job?
- will you be a
model employee, always giving 100% of yourself, or will you not
live up to company standards?
- will you stay long enough at the company for them to at
least recoup their expense invested in recruiting and training you?
3) How well will you get along with others?
- will you fit in and be
a team player will you be "a lone wolf"?
- will you be a positive influence
on your colleagues or will you be a source of negativity?
- Will you fit in and
adopt the corporate culture with its attitudes, values and style?
4) How manageable are you?
- would you be easy or difficult to
manage; will you be a time-consuming person for your manager?
- will you follow and
support organisational policies and procedures?
- how will you respond to
instruction and will you support organisational changes?
- will you fit in with
the existing style of management?
On a logical level this is what interviewers will
concern themselves with. When they are taking notes during an
interview, it is usually to do with the above four areas of
interest. It won't necessarily be the case that interviewers are
consciously aware of these four groupings of concerns. But almost
every supervisor or manager will subconsciously be aware of the
fact that skills and experience are not all there is to a good
employee.