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Nobody said anything about that. The point is, even if you have experience, you can't phone it in during the interview. If you aren't likeable, many people won

• coldtea 10y ago
  Asking that people should "appear to want to job very badly" (and on a later comment changed to suggest they should be "dying for the job") is not merely about not phoning it it, or not being likeable.
  • l_t 10y ago
    Well, I think there is a semantic difference between saying that they "don't appear to want it very badly" and stating that they "should appear to want it very badly". If someone seems diffident, you might say they don't want the job very badly, right? But you wouldn't say that about someone who seemed excited about it. It's just an idiom. You have to show some interest, but you don't have to be desperate. About the "dying for the job" comment, though, I agree that is going too far. Personally, I think you should project a positive attitude about both your previous job, and about the possibility of working at the new place. But never act in a way that implies you aren't on equal footing with the interviewer. It should be a discussion, not a petition.
  • dahart 10y ago
    I didn't change anything, that was a separate point in a separate sub-thread. And I didn't say everyone should be "dying for the job", I replied directly to a person who said "I need a job badly". I'm making the point that if you need the job badly, then it's better to say "I want the job badly" than to say "I need the job badly". It's better to act interested than to appear needy, given that you do want the job badly. I did not say that everyone everywhere should go around ass-kissing like crazy, you are going out of your way to take my words out of context here.