You don’t need to do this. Your important task is to simply pass this level in order to communicate with the person who makes the final hiring decision at the next level. And it’s easy.
Today, almost every company has a recruitment cycle. Recruiters process entry resumes and interview candidates for the position. After that, a meeting can take place with the owner, the potential head of the department, department, who will make the final decision. This is a normal practice, and applicants need to agree with it, and not perceive it as an obstacle.
Treating HR as an enemy is inefficient. It is your support and source of information at all stages of the job search: from the interview to the adaptation in the team. Try to make him your ally, the person “for you”. If you submitted your resume and were invited to an interview, then you are doing everything right. To go to the next level,we recommend that you follow the following rules.
- Prepare for your interview. This topic sounds like a refrain in our articles, but some applicants stubbornly ignore it. Preparation does not take much time, but it is of great importance in the success of the enterprise. All you need to do: read the vacancy carefully. Find information about the company: go to the website, search the Internet, social networks, ask friends; understand why the position is open, correlate the needs of the company with its capabilities. Think over a story about yourself, your strengths and weaknesses, formulate questions for the employer.
- Be kind, polite, restrained. Now it is more important than professional skills. Since the recruiter’s task is to assess your overall adequacy, how well you suit the employer, whether your values coincide with the values of the company, how will you join the team.
- “Why tell this HR, he still doesn’t know anything about my work”. Forget this phrase, and also that you are older, smarter, more experienced, remove the instructive tone. Your goal is to get the initial approval of the hiring manager and pass to the next stage of recruiting. There is no need to prove the other person wrong.
- An HR manager may not know all the nuances of working in your position, miss something, not say. Tell yourself, this is your finest hour. Even if you are sure that everything is obvious, still talk about your specialization and why you are the right fit for this company , refer to the recommendations.
- Yes, you will be asked different questions during the interview. Yes, maybe even strange. Sometimes you will feel that there is no connection between them and the job. But it only seems so. You are a professional in your field, a recruiting manager for yours. Let the person do the work, and listen carefully to what they ask you about, usually the questions include the answers. Answer a specific question from a recruiter and don’t get lost in thought. In order not to get lost during the interview, prepare in advance the answers to common questions from recruiters.
- When you are asked about your desired salary or how much you are getting now, answer accurately, preferably without mentioning specific numbers. But the statements“ I will not discuss this with you, only with the hiring manager” will not earn you extra points.
- Lateness, unkempt appearance, endless phone calls with clarifications of the date, time, place of interview will also not add sympathy. During the first phone call with a recruiter, it is better to arm yourself with paper, a pen and write down all the important information that may so inappropriately fly out of your head due to excitement.
Yes, as in any other professional community, there are people among recruiters who lack competence, flexibility, and ethics. But this is the exception, not the rule. And if in the past you had a negative experience of communicating with such a specialist, this does not mean that now you need to bypass all recruitment managers. Do not discount their important work, enlist support, remain correct and a place in good company is provided for you.