5 steps to being a “passionate candidate”

It is clear that employers will need new elements of enthusiasm in the collective. Therefore, sometimes qualifications, skills, experience is not enough without passion. Show them your desire for dedication.

It would be great if your achievements come from passion

Have you ever been so confident in your experience and skills that you were eventually eliminated after the interview? Perhaps because you show too little enthusiasm while talking about the process of work. ViralHire has a way for you to convey excitement to your job, especially to introverted candidates:

Start with the question of motivation 

Often the employer will ask you what you have done. But instead of just talking about achievements, start the answer with a working motivation. For example, “I focus on health applications because I believe that technology provides fairness to everyone in terms of access to beneficial information. It's the motivation for my app to grow efficiently and be used by thousands of people.”

Referring to over-requested contributions

If possible, give evidence that you are not the type of person who “works out”. For example, as a Accommodation Service Manager, you not only contact guests when they check-in and check-out, you also do surveys for guest reviews to learn from experiences. Sometimes, you text to ask if guests have trouble using the service…

Share about interests

When you are passionate about something, it can also enrich different aspects of life. For example, you love writing, and not only do you write on demand, you also compose comic scripts. And thanks to this, you build a community of fans on social networks and have more experience managing fanpages. Personal projects show your ability to develop yourself in a profound and diverse way.

Personal preferences signal a creative person

Talk about volunteer work

You can fully share a certain belief, aspirations that make you volunteer, even if it is not related to work. For example, you volunteered for the dog and cat rescue organization, with the task of interviewing a lot of people, which takes a lot of time. But thanks to this, you have helped many abandoned pets find their owners, and also have more communication experience as well as human evaluation.

In general, help employers get a portrait of who you are – with a combination of realistic aspirations and actions. Stories, as detailed as above provide the employer with such” hidden information”: an enthusiastic, positive motivated person in life, capable of caring and committing to the surrounding community. That's the kind of person everyone wants to be in the group. Of course the employer will question the ability to allocate time to the job and external passions (if any), but if the results of the previous job are good, the more proven you are competent.

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