No charm...
Sincere question to takers: In the four final round interviews that I attended over the past month, I was flat-out rejected by one and put on the waitlist for the other three. Although I answered all the technicals well and had a good "story," I am starting to believe more and more that I lacked a different, very important trait: charm. All of my friends who have offers as of now are just that - charming. I have one more superday on Tuesday, and I want to make sure that I know how to improve my performance. I know this post is very vague, but I think you have a good idea that I am a pretty serious guy who knows his stuff.
Another suggested skill: reading your own thread
http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/not-charming
I'm not sure why you think you'd get more answers here, especially considering your first thread was on the front page
i agree with drexelalum...i don't have much help moderating this site, and having to move everyone's interview questions to the Get a Job forum is enough work already. now i'm sitting here wondering why everything had shifted back 2 days until i realized that you just reposted the exact same question that I promoted to the home page about 2 days ago.
and then it hit me. this behavior is a perfect example of why you haven't landed a job despite your technical prowess. you remind me of one of my anal lawyer friends who will ask the same question about 100 times looking at it from 40 different angles and no matter how much good advice he gets, he keeps asking it. "but what about this angle, and this, and this..." until everybody wants him to shut the hell up.
The very fact that you recreated your thread from a few days ago speaks volumes of how "tight" you are.
My honest suggestion is to run ~10 miles before your interview and take 2 shots to loosen up. You will be more entertaining and relaxed and that will improve your "charm." Interviews are not multiple choice exams...even if you get all the questions "right", you could be getting other unasked questions VERY VERY wrong. what is your body language like? are you smiling? do you seem nervous? arrogant when you get a tough question right?
ding. next?
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Man has a point.
the best thing for your charm abilities may be to practice slipping under the table unnoticed while the md is talking about himself, crawling over and unzipping his pants, and sucking like your life depended on it.
Eww WTF
does that really work!? should have done that..
J/K haha
patrick speaks the truth.
and jammin, i'm sorry for that, it was completely unnecessary.
If you cannot charm an interviewer, how do you ever expect to attract a mate?
how is lack of charm a factor for superdays and not a factor for first rounds? is it just that it becomes more apparent over a series of 3-5 interviews?
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