Sunday, March 2, 2008 at 9:33AM4 Ways to Develop Instant Rapport with Your Interviewer
With your qualifications and perhaps the help of your restaurant recruiter, you have an interview with a prospective restaurant concept. The interview is your opportunity to sell yourself. Making a good impression on your interviewer means more than dressing properly, combing your hair and being polite. Your ability to connect with the hiring manager, by developing rapport throughout the interview, can close the deal. Interviewers tend to remember interviews with candidates better when they are linked with an emotional impression. Whether the feelings associated with an event are positive or negative, emotional connections make the event significant, helping us remember things more clearly. Making a positively memorable impression on the hiring manager depends on your ability to connect with them.
