Dear New Friend,

If you are looking for a job or will ever need a job again in your life, what you are about to discover here is critical to you and your career and is a matter of your pay, your happiness, your family, your health, and even life or death.

I want you to have this information because after spending years on the other side, behind the scenes devising job interview questions and hiring tactics, I found that hardly anyone looking for a job or facing an interview really know what they are up against.

Most people dread job interviews. Why shouldn't they? After all more than 90% of all people are eliminated in the job interview. Less than ten per cent of all people pass the first interview but only one person can win.

As far as job candidates (you) are concerned there is only one measure of success for a job interview: Getting Hired! Who wants to be told "Hey you did great in your interview but we selected someone else for the job!" Not me and I'll bet you don't either.

The problem is not that most people going into job interviews are unqualified for the position. The fact is most people are qualified. If qualifications were all that mattered, employers could hire candidates from their resumes and skip interviews altogether! The difference is how well you perform in an interview and this includes answering and asking questions, testing, and behavior.

The keyword is "perform." Your interview is a performance. In addition to your answers, you are being judged by your appearance, how you dress, how you shake hands, eye contact, gestures, how you sit, how you stand, your voice inflection, body language, what you say, what you look at, and even how you drove in and exit the parking lot.

Your resume or skills can help you get in the door but they do not get you the job. The problem is most people do not have the correct answers for interview questions and have little or no idea how much their behavior is impacting their chances.

When you are going to a job interview like most candidates you usually have no idea what questions they are going to ask or what signs the interviewer is really watching to see from you. Most candidates have no idea what signals they are sending out or what the interviewer is detecting about them.

I was once naive enough to believe that if you answered all the questions correctly you had a good chance of getting the offer. (Yes I was living in a fairy tale!)

Your interview is about behavior... your behavior. Your body language and conduct is under strict scrutiny. One bad move, an inappropriate energy level, an innocent gesture, or even borrowing a pen can get you disqualified.

You have probably heard of "RED FLAGS" in the dating game. But did you know employers have a long list of RED FLAGS about your behavior? That's right. And many of these mannerisms might seem perfectly natural and acceptable. If you have ever gone to an interview and not got the job offer, there is a HIGH probability you are sending out RED FLAGS and condemning yourself.

Think about this: Most every time you got an interview your qualifications were so good that the employer was interested enough in you they took the time to contact you, schedule an interview, and PAID TO TALK TO YOU. That's right. The person who read your resume and contacted you, the person greeting you at the company, the person interviewing you, and anyone else you met while you were there were all getting paid. (Hey isn't that flattering?)

Because you are qualified the employer spent their money just to talk with you and see you. Your qualifications got you in... what ruled you out?