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How should I interpret this feedback from my job interview?
Semi-good news or just bad news territory, if I were to break the news to family?
I just had a recent job interview for a tutoring program. The interview was set up in two formats with the same recruiters. A traditional one-on-one session where they asked the questions and then I do a small presentation in front of them (if I were to work with students in a scenario). While the feedback that I got for my presentation is good, my interview portion was described as hesitant which caused me to not move forward in the process. The job hires every six months, so my current file is on hold with them if I were to apply again. And then just go straight to the interview process as oppose to starting from the very beginning again.
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When a person is hesitant about answering questions they are asked, aside from an interview, most people will wonder and start to think that possibly the person is either
1. hiding something
2. not sure about what answer to give
3. doesn't know
4. has never really give a thought to the subject or scenerio asked in the question before.
I like gardening, so lets say I want to hire someone to pull weeds in my garden. So I ask if they know how to identify Dandelion, cleavers, buttercup, chickweed or Herb Robert in the Geranium family, a noxious weed in my area, I expect they can say yes to all of that. I want these weeds pulled before they have a chance to mature and spread by runners or seeds. If the person hesitates in answering and doesn't give me a characteristic of a couple of the weeds so I know what they are talking about, I may doubt they know. A person can answer yes real quickly even if they don't know. However the person who answer yes and then says, I know cleavers for sure, its that vining weed that is sticky with velcro like burrs that attach to pets and pants legs to spread itself, or chickweed looks so dainty but when mature, if you brush against it, it sends seeds springing in a circle at least a foot or over away. And that geranium type weed, I can't say I know the name of but its got tiny pink flowers but it mostly leaves and stinks real bad. When deciding which of the two to hire, I won't go with the one who simply answered yes, I will go with the person who told me more than just giving the answer to my question. That's what makes them stand out over the others.
So if you want to go for that job again, you need to jot down the questions they asked you and be able to tell them more than just or no but examples. Sometimes in doing so, my interviewer laughed and said, Well I don't have to ask the next question now which is for you to give me an example. You did well in the presentation part which means your mind was off the stiff questions answer part which is uncomfortable for many people in interviews and doing the presentation may have showed you know your stuff. But if someone answered better in the one on one than you, that is why you didnt get it, not because you dont know and arent as good or better than the one they hired. They really don't know you like your family or friends do so you have to give them a cram course of who you are in a one on one. They will be not only listening to your answering but subconsciously taking in body language and facial expressions. They may not even be aware that they are doing it. When my boss of a small company needed a new employess, he made sure all of us could hear and see the applicant. He then asked each of us, our impression of the person. I've never hired anyone, but when having to give him an answer of who stood out, it ended up, all 5 of us picked the same one of the applicants because of how confident they came across and friendly over others who seemed to have all the basic knowledge.
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