#7: Don’t Say “I Have Good People Skills”
There are fewer things that turn an employer’s bright and hopeful eyes into bleary-eyed orbs than saying, “I’m a people person” or “I have good people skills.”
You may indeed like people, get along with others, and enjoy interacting with customers and clients. Still, don’t say “I’m a people person.”
Why? Because everybody says “I’m a people person” or “I have good people skills” (many of whom probably have no right to those claims). The words mean nothing.
“I couldn’t wait to end the conversation, which had just begun,” one employer told me after interviewing an applicant. “The woman made the same mistakes I see every day. I asked her to tell me about herself. By the time she had gotten through her memorized ...
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