Enhance but Don’t Oversell Yourself

Posted on 22 June 2011 in You 2.0

Imagine applying for a job where the selection committee had narrowed down their choices to you and only one other applicant, where your qualifications and skills matched each other’s. Then during the panel interview, the panel surprises the both of you by asking if you were familiar with a particular software program. The job ad didn’t say that the successful applicant should have this particular skill in order to get the job; the job actually involved other duties and responsibilities that both you and the other applicant had.

Now imagine that your competitor shook his head and said, “No, I’m sorry, that’s outside of my skill set.”