Daniel: Hi there!
Marcia: Good morning, Daniel!
Daniel: Oh, Dan, please.
Marcia: I'm Marcia Boardman – we spoke on the phone – and this is Philip Hart, our CEO.
Philip: Hello!
Daniel: Nice to meet you both.
Philip: So, it says here on your CV that you’re interested in rock climbing.
Daniel: Yeah, I love it!
Philip: Great, so do I! When did you last go climbing?
Daniel: Er, well, it was a while ago, now.
Philip: Anywhere interesting?
Daniel: Yeah, I walked up the hill behind my house. Took me about 30 minutes!
Philip: Oh.
Marcia: OK, erm, Daniel, can you tell us a little bit about your current position?
Daniel: Certainly. As it says in the CV, I'm part of the European sales team at Networld. We're the world's leading supplier of IT hardware.
Philip: Why do you want to move on?
Daniel: Well, they're too small for me!
Marcia: Networld are too small for you?
Daniel: Yeah, I'm looking for something much bigger.
Philip: Well, we're not a big company by any means, but we are looking to grow! Er, what first attracted you to WebWare in particular?
Daniel: Well, I see WebWare as kind of like a stepping stone ...
Marcia: Sorry?
Daniel: Yeah, start here, gain the necessary experience, then move on to something bigger.
Philip: OK ... well, I do admire your ambition!
Daniel: Thanks. I've got lots of it!
Marcia: Let's move on to managing people. Can you give an example of a time when you had to deal with a particularly difficult managee?
Daniel: Sure, well, I think that's one of my strong points, actually. Er, a couple of years ago, I was working with a guy, he wasn't pulling his weight, basically being lazy – so I told him to get out.
Marcia: Oh, you didn't give him a performance review or a warning or perhaps try to develop his motivation?
Daniel: No, no, no, no. None of that rubbish. If someone's not working hard enough, then they're out! That's the way I work. I'm a hard man.
Marcia: I see.
Philip: Erm, how would you handle a rapidly changing market?
Daniel: Basically not change anything at all! Just continue on as normal, regardless.
Marcia: Erm, according to your CV you are fluent in Mandarin ...
Daniel: Well, I wouldn't say 'fluent', exactly, but I like Chinese food a lot so I can read the menu.
Philip: So you can't actually speak the language?
Daniel: Er, no.
Marcia: Can you tell us about a time you had to close a particularly challenging deal?
Daniel: I haven't had one. They're all easy for me. I close deals all the time.
Marcia: OK, well, do you have any questions for us?
Daniel: No.
Philip: Oh. OK. Erm, thanks.
Marcia: Let's move on to the presentation ...
Comments
I would say he was absolutely arrogant and ostentatious—the way he greeted the interviewers, his body language, and his answers made the situation worse. He should be honest and detailed. No one wants an unethical person to be hired!
Daniel was very self-confident during the meeting, I think that it is a positive feature. By contrast, maybe, he was too much self-confident, so I can't note any positive aspect of Daniel's meeting.
He has to improve several things, above all he must be more clear and sincere about his skills. I noticed that he has magnified his capabilities, for instance his speaking level of mandarin.
Points to improve : well all the contrary of what he done:
-modify his CV and adjust it to he reality of its skills and experience ie he is clearly not fluent in Chinese, he has no experience of management, he probably never practised climbing and so on and think afterwards about examples he can give to prove the reality of his CV.
-be more careless in his way of standing and speaking. He should wear more conventional clothes adapted to the job he applies for.
-even if he plans to stay no more than necessary in the company he should not say so and express his interest in the company and its field of activity.
I can't see any good points in his interview. He is over confident and arrogant. His behaviour and the way he is dressed is too relax. By his answers to the questions one can understand that the content of its CV its dishonest and who wants to hire someone who do not intend to stay in the company ?
He was not good at all
he lies in CV
he was not professional
he well not get this job
Daniel was a confident man. He answered about his strength. He also had solve skills and gived examples in his current. However, he didn't know any languages. Futher, he said that he had ambition bigger, he didnt want to work long time . This company is stepping stone for his future.
What were Daniel's good and bad points? What should he do to improve his interview performance?
On the good ones, he's very self-confident, friendly and speaker. On the other hand, by the bad ones, he's untrue of many things, as speaking Mandarin as said on CV.
By improving his interview performance, he would have to explain true things and not to lie. In addition to this, he wouldn't have to be arrogant to others.
Gerard.
The good points of Daniel is that he has an ambition and the bad points is that he doesn't know the 'Don't' of an interview. He should be acquitted with the 'Do' and 'Don't ' of an interview.
Daniel made all possible mistakes in the interview: answers with lack details, show negative charachter traits (about 'hard man), etc. I would not have hired such an employee.
Through the video, I can learn a crucial point that would be beneficial for a candidate: be confident but not arrogant in an interview. The interviewee here looks too proud of himself but doesn't focus on the critical interest of the employer and fails to bring trust and convincing. Another point that needs avoiding is not to overstate your qualification and be honest in your CV.
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