[原创]Smile at Interviews

Sam, a young man with great potential, is a bit unhappy these days because he didn’t do a good job during an interview and thus missed an excellent opportunity to further develop himself. “If I had performed better, I would have been working for that Fortune 500 company”. This is his murmur.

 

Actually, Sam should thank that company for having declined him. This is not just because it’s no use crying over split milk, or learning from failures makes us closer to success. It’s one of the riskiest decisions for companies to shortlist candidates through interviews and to finally choose the right person for the right post. Being declined may simply be because the company has an agenda that has nothing to do with Sam. In other words, the company rejecting Sam may not necessarily mean that Sam did not perform well during the interview as he suspects. Even if the company rejects him because he did a poor job during the interview, the incident may be a disguised blessing for Sam. To be more specific, thanks to this company’s declination, Sam may then be given better opportunities of being employed by a much better company that is able to make full use his talents and potential as long as Sam is able to learn something from the incident.

 

Sam’s story is better accompanied by that of Jack. Compared with Sam, Jack is more aggressive and has a strong belief in himself. During his ten plus years’ career, he successfully switched to three renowned companies, every time his compensation packages were more than doubled and he was given numerous opportunities. Now he is a senior supply chain manager at a transnational company. Why is he so successful? Every time when he was rejected by a company, he would say “it would be their loss to have rejected me, and I really thank them for this because I’m going to have more opportunities to be recruited by much better companies.” Since Jack is such an “impossible is nothing” person, his little but continuous daily progress makes him an impressive and conquering gentleman. When Jack turned out to be one of the hottest talents one or two years later, the company that had rejected him would definitely regret that they made a wrong decision for whatever reason.

 

Don’t believe this story? Well, there’s no surprise about this. People often claim that since you walk 5 kilometers an hour, how long you may go for a life will then be calculated accordingly. What makes this wrong is that we often forget that an individual’s daily pace is one of the biggest variants. Just imagine how long an individual can go if he or she switches to a BMW. In a “change is the only constant” era, it’s not uncommon that for an ambitious person their one day’s go in the future may be much more than the sum of what they could achieve in the past ten years.

 

Therefore, smile at interviews no matter an offer follows or not, and make an elaborate preparation for the future, then your day will come. The worst case is only that people may delay your success, but they can’t stop it.

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