What’s the best interview advice you’ve ever received?

[MyRedBird]

The best advice I ever got (that actually worked for me) was to act like I already had the job and I was there as a SME/consultant. It helped me turn interviews into conversations rather than interrogations. Just wondered what advice has genuinely helped others, especially anything that changed how you approach interviews rather than just how you prepare.

The interviewer wants you to get the job. Recruitment is expensive and time consuming. They're not trying to trip you up or trick you, they're looking for reasons to give you the job so they can get back to their day job having found the right person.

Don’t answer too fast replay in your head what they asked then answer

You’re there to find out if this job is for you. What do you need to know?

Actually I have heard that advice before and an old friend tried that on his first office job (1995/6) interview but got carried away and put his legs crossed up on the desk and lent back with his hands behind his head blowing cigarette smoke out and got escorted out the building. It was the era of act big to look big etc with power stance moves. Tred with caution