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Fri Dec 16, 2011 at 09:09 AM by Dennis Nicholas If you’ve never gone through this situation, it could possibly be your most horrible nightmare: You’ve rehearsed and prepped the normal interview questions, done a background check on the company. But something goes south during the interview process. You then stumble. You utter something regrettable. Your interviewer begins fidgeting. The reaction of disaster begins a downward spiral that later ends with you leaving the interview room, and tail between your legs. However this situation isn’t inevitably hopeless. A few tactics below should get the interview back on course. Stop, calm down and ask It’s not an offence to pause in the middle of a respond to ask the boss for feedback, according to Lilly Zhu, an ex- Morgan Stanley deputy president of investment banking. Lilly now runs Kuaguoren, a career training firm meant for Chinese professionals. “Break and say, ‘you just thought of checking and to see if you’re headed in the correct direction,’’ Lilly suggests. “This has actually been witnessed being practiced by very attentive interviewees during a recruiting process. And often interviewers are caught trying to help the candidate provide more meaningful responses. Revise your respond in real time According to Pennell Locey, a top consultant with Keystone Associates, Pennell urges applicants to take control of the process – particularly when they blander. “Applicants time and again let the interviewer control the interview, although there’s no problem to say ‘I understand I may have sent a wrong intuition before when I said Y. and in reality, I meant Y,’ Pennell says. “So, it’s a case in point of an expertise, experience you’d want to draw attention to, or maybe an opinion conveyed that you want mitigated, you can always go back.” But if you won’t recall of it until your way home, make use of your thank you note to correct the incident. Help the interviewer help you Sometimes it does get a bit difficulty to strike a rapport/bond/connection with the interviewer, ask the interviewer what they’re looking for. “Their reaction to, ‘In your view, can you illustrate your right analyst applicant?’ It could bring an opening to illustrate some experience or expertise,” Lilly says. “This builds a new platform in which you can go into the conversation. Interviews are more like opportunities to broaden relationships.” Pimp your resume If you’re caught stuck staggering about a section of your career that seems challenging, show an example where you have exce
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