TRAPS:
Beware – if you are unprepared for this question, you will probably not handle it right
and possibly blow the interview. Thank goodness most interviewers don’t employ it. It’s normally used by
those determined to see how you respond under stress. Here’s how it works:
You answer an interviewer’s question and then, instead of asking another, he just stares at you in a
deafening silence.
You wait, growing a bit uneasy, and there he sits, silent as Mt. Rushmore, as if he doesn’t believe what
you’ve just said, or perhaps making you feel that you’ve unwittingly violated some cardinal rule of interview
etiquette.
When you get this silent treatment after answering a particularly difficult question , such as “tell me about
your weaknesses”, its intimidating effect can be most disquieting, even to polished job hunters.
Most unprepared candidates rush in to fill the void of silence, viewing prolonged, uncomfortable silences as
an invitation to clear up the previous answer which has obviously caused some problem. And that’s what
they do – ramble on, sputtering more and more information, sometimes irrelevant and often damaging,
because they are suddenly playing the role of someone who’s goofed and is now trying to recoup. But since
the candidate doesn’t know where or how he goofed, he just keeps talking, showing how flustered and
confused he is by the interviewer’s unmovable silence.
BEST ANSWER:
Like a primitive tribal mask, the Silent Treatment loses all it power to frighten you once you
refuse to be intimidated. If your interviewer pulls it, keep quiet yourself for a while and then ask, with sincere
politeness and not a trace of sarcasm, “Is there anything else I can fill in on that point?” That’s all there is to
it.
Whatever you do, don’t let the Silent Treatment intimidate you into talking a blue streak, because you could
easily talk yourself out of the position.
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