Body language is important in any social setting and can help the other person determine how you feel about a situation, especially eye contact. In this blog, Interview Tips Eye Contact, you will learn what eye contact conveys about you during a interview.

Eye contact with an interviewer during an interview conveys many different messages; the most important being confidence and self-esteem which are both important qualities to have as an employee. The interviewer is also able to gage your interest level based on the amount of eye contact you make. If you are constantly having shifty eyes and keep your gaze away from the interviewers, it may show a lack of interest in the opportunity on your part and it can also be seen as disrespectful. However, this may not necessarily be the case in all parts of the world as it is in North America. In Japan for example, it is considered incredibly rude to maintain constant eye contact.

Build Trust

An appropriate amount of eye contact during an interview is extremely necessary in order to help convey sincerity as well as honesty. If you continuously avoid eye contact, you will have a hard time building a rapport with the interviewer and trust will be hard to establish as well because it is difficult to trust someone who you feel is avoiding making eye contact with you. The interviewer will think that you are trying to come up with a lie to the question they have just asked you. 

Show Interest

Eye contact is a really easy way to convey your interest level during an interview. When you are excited and happy, your eyes naturally tend to dilate and exhibit a certain amount of sparkle, which will help the interviewer pick up on how excited you truly are about the opportunity. Avoiding eye contact will make the interviewer think that you are not interested in the job, company, salary or worse—them.

Look, Don’t Stare – Interview Tips Eye Contact

Even though maintaining a good amount of eye contact is extremely important, remember to look and not stare. You don’t want to stare down your interviewer as that can be seen as threatening and just plain creepy. There are certain tactics that you can use in order to maintain a natural eye contact level. Take a short pause and look away to think about the question that was asked in order to formulate a good answer. Breaking eye contact to think of your answer shows that you are confident and are interested enough to think about the question before you answer. You may even consider bringing a notebook to the interview. This shows your interviewer that you are interested enough to take notes and learn about the company, and it helps create an effective and natural opportunity to look away from the interviewer. Often times there are more than one interviewer. It is important to make eye contact with everyone that is present in the room, and refer your answers to everyone, not just the person who asked the question.

Interviewing can be daunting, but you need to realize that you are interviewing them as much as they are interviewing you. In order to build good rapport and trust with the interviewer or within any relationship in life, eye contact and body language helps play an integral role. Use the information in this blog, Interview Tips Eye Contact, to prepare for your next job interview.

Sit back and let a Staffing Specialist take care of your job search details. Connect with a Staffing Specialist to significantly increase your success in landing a new job opportunity. Learn about the benefits of using a staffing specialist in this two-part blog series – Benefits Working With Staffing Specialist.

Welcome back! Previously we discussed three different ways that Staffing Specialists can help land your dream job. They have access to the Hidden Job Market, they have a common end goal and less competition. Today we continue presenting the Benefits Working With Staffing Specialist. Learn how working with a Staffing Specialist can not only help you land your ideal role but you are now hiring a specialist who will take on the majority of your job search…

Resume and Interviewing Skills

Working with a Staffing Specialist will give you an opportunity to speak with someone who is knowledgeable and experienced within the given industry, client and role. They can take a look at your resume, give you suggestions and assist you with catering your resume based on the opportunity. They have screened through many resumes and can offer you the best advice on how to really make yourself stand out and look desirable to clients.

Interviewing is something everyone always looks to improve upon. A Staffing Specialist will take the time to help you with your interview skills. As mentioned before, both you and the Staffing Specialist have the same common goal; landing the job. A great Staffing Specialist will take time out and offer you interview tips and advice before your interview. They will offer advice on what type of questions to expect and how to field certain questions. At your request, they will sit down with you and conduct a mock interview, all so you can be well prepared and be able to interview as your best self!

Stress Alleviation

Partnering with a Staffing Specialist can and will alleviate a lot of stress from your job search. Often when sending out resumes, and emails you are in charge of keeping track of it all and following up. Well, working with a Staffing Specialist will mitigate all of that. They will present your resume, keep track of it, follow up with the opportunity/client and provide all feedback. All you have to do is sit back and be ready for your potential interview. They do all the work for you, and take away all unnecessary stress that a job search can cause.

The Perfect Role

Most candidates have the perfect skill set for a role, but that does not make for the perfect job. What really makes a role perfect is fit. A candidate ultimately has to fit within the company’s organizational culture for it to be that perfect role. A Staffing Specialist will know the ins and outs of their clients. They will know what type of candidate is ideal and how to screen for the necessary skills and fit. A Staffing Specialist will also know a lot about the candidates. A really good Staffing Specialist will not shoot off questions that match the opportunity, rather they will go through a full profile with you. They will take the time to learn about your job/education history, your goals, strengths, weakness, and your desired compensation. This way the Staffing Specialist really gets to know you and potentially match you to your perfect role.

There are many benefits to partnering with a Staffing Specialist. They are dedicated, ambitious individuals who will work tirelessly to help you land your dream job! Did you miss Part 1 – Benefits Working With Staffing Specialist?

Put your best foot forward, connect with a Staffing Specialist to significantly increase your success in landing a new job opportunity. Learn about the benefits of using a staffing specialist in this two-part blog series – Job Search Working With Staffing Specialist.

As a candidate, throughout your career at one point or another you probably had some form of interaction with a Staffing Specialist. During that interaction, some of you may have begun to question the benefits of connecting with a recruiter. At any point in your job search, connecting with a Staffing Specialist will significantly increase your success in landing a new opportunity. Today we will outline how a Staffing Specialist can help you land your dream job….

The Hidden Job Market

Staffing Specialists are tapped into the Hidden Job Market. Search engines and job boards will have many advertised opportunities listed, however some companies go another route and work with Staffing Firms and keep their jobs undisclosed. We are now talking about several roles that will not be listed anywhere. There are a few reasons for this, the role can be a senior level position that is hard to fill, the company does not want their competition to know they are hiring so they keep it confidential or they just do not want to advertise. If you are looking to access this Hidden Job market, take the time to connect with a Staffing Specialist.

Common End Goal

One commonality between a candidate and a Staffing Specialist is the end goal is the same. The end goal being finding the ideal opportunity and landing it. A Staffing Specialist will walk you through the process and make sure you are well prepared and putting your best foot forward. They will advise you on your resume and interview skills. A Staffing Specialist will also spend time negotiating on your behalf. At the end of the day as a candidate your goal is to find yourself the dream job, a Staffing Specialist can lead you there.

Less Competition

We all know by sending resumes, we are competing with all the other candidates hungry for the same position. One benefit of working with a Staffing Specialist is you will have less competition. You may be up against at most four other candidates. Whereas, when applying through job boards, and search engines we are talking thousands of people. A Staffing Specialist’s job is to find qualified candidates, match them to the opportunity and move forward accordingly. The reason the competition here is less, is because a Staffing Specialist can match skill set quite easily, but what they are really looking for is fit. Whether or not the candidate can fit within the organization. Once the Staffing Specialist narrows it down they only present as mentioned maybe a maximum of four candidates. Partnering with a Staffing Specialist will mean you have a higher chance of success if the opportunity is exactly what you are looking for.

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There are many benefits in connecting with a Staffing Specialist. Next time in our blog Job Search Working With Staffing Specialist Part 2, we will discuss how they can help in improving your resume or interview skills, how they can decrease your stress level during your job search and how they can find you’re the perfect role.