Interviews: don't come across as arrogant or desperate during an interview

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Personality is really important during the interview process. Avoid coming across as arrogant, instead go for confidence. Don't come across as desperate, instead be excited about the position. This video explains how!
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@mrillig 3 ай бұрын

An interview is also a lot about your personality, and so you want to come across as a confident person that is interested in the job. The most negative impression you can make is to appear arrogant (rather than confident) and desperate (rather than really excited about the position). This video explains why, and how to do this. I hope you find it useful. If you have additional points, please let me know in the comments. 😊

@crawlingthroughyourwalls 3 ай бұрын

perfect timing, I have a job interview tomorrow :). Thank you for the tips, I feel a lot more prepared 😊

@mrillig 3 ай бұрын

Thanks, great! All the best for your interview.

@tanvirshovon3482 3 ай бұрын

This is really good information.

@mrillig 3 ай бұрын

thanks!

@SO-rq3pm 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for this great content! There're many videos on academic interviews but almost none of them have covered these two important aspects!

@mrillig 3 ай бұрын

Thanks! I'm glad you liked it.

@SO-rq3pm 3 ай бұрын

@@mrillig Thank you. Just a suggestion. There are many many videos on teaching candidates how to do well in interview, yet we literally know nothing about the ways of working, the thinking process and decision making by the interview panel in the whole application process. Could you please demystify that "behind-the-scene" part for us all? It'd be much more interesting and helpful to let people know the other side of the story so that we can penetrate into this black box and adjust ourselves more accurately with this unknown but important perspective. For example, I suspect (and based on numerous experiences) many people in the selection committee, despite their higher rank, do NOT read the applicants' application pack before coming to the interview so they arrived with an empty mind or unprepared. Some of them did not pay attention to the candidate's presentation but ask stupid questions in the interview that comes after (not clarifying questions, but asking exactly what the presentation has already covered) etc. etc. Problems like this are many and common, and I suspect it's not limited to particular universities or countries. What do you think?

@mrillig 2 ай бұрын

@@SO-rq3pm Thanks. I will think about this.

@gabincolombini5402 3 ай бұрын

I have been following your channel for the past three years and I wanted to say that your content is priceless. After three years as postdoc, I have my first interview in a few weeks. I just wanted to express my gratitude for the time and effort you put in your videos to help young career scientists to go through the (sometime frustrating) process of academia! Fun fact, I am currently working on soil microplastics, so thank you for opening this field to us a while ago! We still have a long road ahead

@mrillig 2 ай бұрын

Wonderful, that is great to hear. Thanks for writing! Glad you found the videos helpful, and good luck with your research (and the upcoming interview)!

@pankajamthyagarajan4052 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for this great video.

@mrillig 2 ай бұрын

Thanks! glad you liked it!

@khaledyoussef2725 3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for all your advice and insights that helped me personally and others for sure. I wonder when I am interested in the project and really want to work on that project (postdoc) how then can show that and avoid the disparity :) ; for instance how good it is if i send a followed up thank you email after around 3 weeks ( notice the P.I has contacted my references). Thank you once again dear Prof. Mattias .

@mrillig 3 ай бұрын

Thanks very much. There is nothing wrong with sending a thank-you email after the interview, and of course you should say that you find this project really interesting!

@andreasstylianou9383 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for these really helpful videos. Is it possible to upload a short video about the structure of an interview for a faculty position?

@mrillig 3 ай бұрын

Thanks. I already have a video for the entire process of an interview for a faculty position, if this is what you mean; kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oM96n7OjyKual2w.htmlsi=ZAdurBy5_5rslgCX

@andreasstylianou9383 3 ай бұрын

Yes, that's what I mean. Thank you!!