Part 2 (Indifference) – Being Desperate
You want to show that you care about the position, but remember you don’t want to seem desperate. You’re supposed to be somewhere in the middle, which is “Indifference.” So how do you prevent yourself from seeming desperate?
You know how much you’re worth. You know what you want to be paid, and what you were paid at your last job. **Know how much you want to be paid before the interview starts. And be reasonable… Lets say you made 45k yearly at your last job, and they want to pay you 28k doing similar work. Well that math doesn’t add up, and you shouldn’t put yourself in the position to “need” that 28k job.
The job market is definitely not what it used to be, but if you refer to the “Law of Averages,” you don’t have to settle. You should have another interview in no time, if you follow our system. But knowing what you’re worth before you go into the interview prevents you from looking desperate, because you know what you will take, and what you can’t take. The mere fact that you know another interview is soon to come somewhere else, gives you the power to not “need” this job. And that comes across in the interview. This lack of desperation gives you more value to the interviewer! Determining your worth is a topic covered more in-depth in another article. Read more about determining your worth here.
“Indifference” is a mentality
Don’t worry, it took me a week (with people teaching me) to really understand what indifference means. To sum it up one last time; if you walk into an interview, you’re telling yourself:
“I’ll give this interview 100%, but if it isn’t a good fit for me, no biggie… there’s another interview around the corner.”
Nobody knows your job or your accomplishments better than you do. So don’t worry about studying the words verbatim, because chances are the script used above, or the industry doesn’t relate to what you’ve done. So just be honest in the interview; smile, and give answers that tell a story of your experiences.
