The job hunt can get exhausting. We need the motivation to keep going and tips to steer us in the right direction. Here are some words of encouragement for a job interview.
Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it. –Katherine Whitehorn
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. –Eleanor Roosevelt
Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise. –Anonymous
Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them. –Audrey Hepburn
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. –Maya Angelou
Never tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon. –Anonymous
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. —Helen Keller
Do one thing every day that scares you. –Eleanor Roosevelt
Asked what we do best, few of us would say ‘doing a great job interview.’ Yet this is one of the most highly rewarded abilities in life. –Anonymous
In most cases, the best strategy for a job interview is to be fairly honest, because the worst thing that can happen is that you won’t get the job and will spend the rest of your life foraging for food in the wilderness and seeking shelter underneath a tree or the awning of a bowling alley that has gone out of business. –Lemony Snicket, Horseradish.
A job interview is a two-way communication to probe for cultural and team fit. No matter which side of the table you sit, you should be asking questions that are important to you without fear. –Salil Jha
Authenticity and strategy could be called the ‘yin and yang’ of good interviewing-except that they aren’t opposites. The opposite of authenticity is phoniness, and the opposite of strategy is randomness, or carelessness. –Anonymous
Let’s step back from a job interview, just for a moment, and imagine yourself at a barbecue. You meet a stranger and make small talk, “Where are you from? What do you do? You married? Kids? You have grandchildren? How old are you?” Questions you have all asked at one time or another, yet if asked during a job interview every one of them could be interpreted as illegal. All too often, these questions at an interview are just the result of someone showing interest in you as a person, like at the barbecue. – Martin Yate
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. –Benjamin Franklin
One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. –Arthur Ashe
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.–Winston Churchill
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.–Norman Vincent Peale
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.–Wayne Gretzky
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
I’m playing; I’m here. I am going to fight until they tell me they don’t want me anymore. –Steve Nash
Don’t be afraid to fail. Don’t waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It’s OK to fail. If you’re not failing, you’re not growing. –H. Stanley Judd
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. –Alexander Graham Bell
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. –Confucius
Success doesn’t come to you, you go to it. –Marva Collins
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. –Robert F. Kennedy
It is never too late to be what you might have been. –George Eliot
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.–Walt Disney
Every experience in your life is being orchestrated to teach you something you need to know to move forward.” –Brian Tracy
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan “press on” has solved and will always solve the problems of the human race. –Calvin Coolidge
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it. –Theodore Roosevelt
The average person puts only 25% of his energy into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity,
and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%. —Andrew Carnegie
It’s time to start living the life we’ve imagined. —Henry James
If a man is called to be a street-sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street-sweeper who did his job well. —Martin Luther King
There are so many things you can learn about. But you’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut. —Dr. Seuss
Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there. —Yogi Berra
The voyage of discovery is not in looking for new landscapes, but in looking with new eyes. —Anonymous
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. —Albert Einstein
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him. —Aldous Huxley
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. —Robert F. Kennedy
No one ever gets very far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day. —Elbert Hubbard
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. —Norman Vincent Peale
To be a great champion, you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are. —Muhammad Ali
All of the darkness of the world cannot put out the light of one small candle. —Anonymous
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. —Henry David Thoreau
If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. —Milton Berle
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way. —Booker T. Washington
The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from the shore. —Dale Carnegie
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. —Theodore Roosevelt
There is a way to do it better…find it —Thomas Edison
So many people out there have no idea what they want to do for a living, but they think that by going on job interviews they’ll magically figure it out. If you’re not sure, that message comes out loud and clear in the interview. – Todd Bermont
