Choices–Never Do This In An Interview

Choices--Never Do This In An Interview

“Every choice you make has an end result.”

Zig Ziglar


The young lady reached down into her bag for her phone. However, instead of silencing the phone, she picked it up and placed it in her lap. The manager interviewing this young lady could not believe what she was experiencing. The interviewee was actually reading the text in the middle of the interview. The young lady finally came to her senses and apologized after putting her phone back in her bag.

Are these stories real? Yes! Let’s just say, she didn’t get the job.

I was beside myself as Vicki, the Practice Manager at a Phoenix general dentistry, told me this interview story. One simple action can speak a thousand words. In this instance though, those thousand words were not encouraging to the interviewee’s character.

Make a Choice To Elevate Your Character

We all have choices everyday. From the moment you wake up, to the moment you lay your head down on the pillow at night, you have made plenty of choices in the day. Some are big and others nearly go unnoticed. Whatever it maybe though, you must choose to elevate your character rather than damage it.

I understand you have your MBA and you graduated from a very high caliber program, but your choices will have more to do with your career advancement than your degree. Degrees might help you land a job, but your character will play the biggest role in promotions and raises. Choices communicate character, demonstrate soft skills, and lead you into the future. Make choices that promote your character, not wreck it.

Look at choices as a building block to your future. The healthy choices will build a healthy future. The destructive choices will build a destructive future. It really is that pretty simple.

Value Choices Correctly

Where you might get stuck though, is in the value of a choice. Big choices like what house to buy or what job to take are obvious in placing high value on. But it is the small choices with a chain reaction to the future that gets easily overlooked.

Not going out with friends the night before a presentation at work is a small choice with a chain reaction. If you do go out the night before and bomb the presentation, you might not get the promotion you didn’t know the boss wanted to give to you. The boss might find out you went out the night before which communicates you do not care about the presentation, nor the job, nor the company. Small choice with a chain reaction.

See each choice you make with correct value.

Make the right choices that elevate your character rather than destroy it.

Do not answer your phone in a crucial meeting—such as an interview.

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