Interview hack: Don’t appear desperate, the interviewer is as anxious as you to find the right candidate

Desperation shows that you are more interested in the pay than building the company, which wouldn’t be a plus for you in an interview.

If you show up as the desperate job applicant who will crawl over pile after pile of broken glass to please an employer, some employers might get some mild amusement from tormenting you with additional interviews, tests, asking for sexual favours, unpaid assignments and long, unexplained silences. In any case, you wouldn’t want to work for such a person. The organisation’s culture has to be right to bring out the best in the staff.

To avoid the unpleasantness, before and during an interview make sure you are cool, calm, and confident. That will help you look less desperate and hopeless and hopefully land the job if it is the right fit.

Let me let you in on a secret, every employer knows that getting the right person to do the job is more difficult than getting the next customer. So, don’t appear desperate, if the employer believes you can do the job and would fit into the culture of the organisation, you stand a very, very good chance of landing the job. Good luck.