Not all interviewers know what they are doing.

Interviewing is not an easy task and not all people conducting interviews will come across as well as others.

Its easy to get turned off during an interview if the interviewer shows up late and doesnt seem to care, doesnt appear to have read your resume in advance or worse, if they forget they are even doing the interview with you and are surprised when you show up!

Ive seen this happen before.

Sometimes, events that occur during the interview can leave you with a bad impression of the company and can cause you to question whether or not you want to work for them.

The important part is to put the events in context. In the examples I gave above, perhaps the interviewer has been very busy and simply made a mistake not preparing enough for your interview with them. Thats not a good excuse, but keep this in mind.

Plus, if the interviewer is not the person youd be working for (ie. they arent the hiring manager) remember that you may have little to no regular contact with this person if you were hired. Its the hiring manager who you want to pay particular attention to since youll actually be working for that person.

The thing to remember with an interview is that its a two-way street:

Youre trying to sell yourself to the employer.

The employer should be trying to sell themselves to you, too.

Dont make a mountain out of a molehill but dont ignore obvious signs that lead you to believe that the company you are interviewing with has problems that you should be aware of when considering whether or not you want to work for them.

Carl Mueller

My name is Carl Mueller and I'd like to thank you for learning a bit more about me!

I feel that I have numerous relevant experiences during my career that come in useful when helping people with their careers:

I know what it’s like to work internationally, having worked overseas (in New Zealand, from 1994-1998).

I've survived several corporate downsizings while many of my colleagues were being laid off.

I have also experienced being laid off twice myself during corporate downsizings.

I know what it’s like to be self-employed.

I've helped many people find better jobs. I started to work as a professional recruiter in 2000 first as an Information Technology (IT) recruiter and then in general recruitment across many industries including IT, manufacturing and marketing. Since this time, I have helped many people find their dream career and it’s a great feeling.

I experienced one of the slowest hiring periods in recent memory especially during the general hiring slowdown that followed the Y2K frenzy in 1999, the bursting of the dot com bubble in early 2000, and then the employment market bottoming out following September 11, 2001.

These were certainly not great times to be a job searcher in most industries nor was it a particularly good time to be a recruiter.

Following this, I began running the day to day operations of an Internet-based company in early 2003 that focused on developing online software and subscription-based websites for consumers. It was then that I fully realized the power, usefulness and potential of the Internet which really spurred me to set up my own website which you can view in my Personal URL section below this bio.

I’m also a Platinum Ezine Articles Expert as recognized by EzineArticles.com, one of the most visited websites on the Internet. This special designation is earned by having consistently high-quality articles published and viewed on their website. All of my submissions are related to helping you find your dream career and many of my articles get reproduced on other websites by their webmasters.

Good luck with your career and I hope I have been of assistance to you!