Claire writes: “When we were writing the Great Appointments book, Su and I invented the word disfluency. We notice that really good and competent professionals are disfluent when it comes to talking about themselves and their skills and experience in an interview or assesment centre.
If you can’t describe yourself, the interviewers will not have enough information to be able to decid whether you are the right person for the role.
Here are some tips
- Prepare your data on yourself as much as you research the data on them. And then make the connections between the two
- Make sure that you use a voice where you are confident – people are often fluent and articulate in meetings or presentations or in a public arena and inarticulate talking about themselves.
- Stand in the role you are being interviewed for when you answer so that you are using their language and making the connections from your story into their context so that they can imagine what it will be like to have you in role.
Disfluency, unexplored will mean that they don’t meet the real you. Think about it…”
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