#4: Don’t Talk About TMPI (Too Much Personal Information)
It’s understandable that you want to cozy up to your potential new employer. Just don’t get too chummy by blabbing about personal problems, your love life, politics, and religion, and issues you’d only share with a close friend.
This includes details about your rocky marriage. Bouts with depression. Hard-luck stories about sick children, pets, and mothers; broken-down cars; or a spouse’s bad job situation.
Why would you even want to go there? To create a bond with the employer? Are you hoping to gain sympathy and make someone want to hire you? It has the opposite effect.
I’ll remind you what Eric Zuckerman said about that woman who went on and on about her personal issues for 20 minutes ...
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