Omon Eni

Omon EniSep 10, 2026

Three things people believe about interviews that are not true. *One. They already know who they want.* You walk in convinced there is an internal candidate, or someone they prefer, and the whole thing is a formality. So you show up flat, because what is the point. Most interviewers walk in undecided. A fair number read your CV in the five minutes before the call. They are not confirming a choice, they are trying to make one. You are not walking into a decision. You are walking into the moment it gets made. *Two. Being nervous means I am not ready.* So you prepare more. Read the notes again. Reread the job description. Still feel sick, and conclude you are just not good at interviews. Nerves are not the problem. Being unrehearsed is the problem, and from the outside they look identical. Every answer you have written down but never said out loud is an answer you have not actually prepared. Reading is not rehearsing. The first time those words leave your mouth should not be in front of a panel. *Three. If they liked me, I would know.* You leave and start the postmortem immediately. She looked bored. He barely asked anything. And you have written it off before you get to the car. Reading the room is not the same as reading the decision. The one who seemed bored was tired. The one nodding most is not deciding. People walk out certain they failed and get the call two days later. You might be reading the room accurately and still be wrong about the outcome. Here is the thing about all three. Nobody tested any of them. Somebody said them once, they sounded true, and now they run through your head before every interview you sit. Which one do you catch yourself believing? #interviewtips #careeradvice #jobsearch #hiring

Omon EniSep 14, 2026

𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗸𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗹𝗮𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝗹𝘀𝗲. 𝗡𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗮 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝘀𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻. Your body is not broken because it needs a minute after something took a lot out of you. That is the system working rather than failing. 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘆𝗲𝘁. Clarity is usually something you walk into, not something you sit still and wait for. Most people who look certain worked it out by moving. 𝗧𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗷𝗼𝗯 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗽𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗶𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝘁. Paying your rent is not settling. I did exactly this and I have never once regretted it. It bought me the time to make a better decision than I would have made from panic. 𝗠𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲. Different starting lines, different pace. That is not a character flaw, that is maths. None of these are laziness. But none of them are a permanent address either. The difference is whether you chose it and whether it has an end. A season you decided on is a strategy. A season that keeps extending itself because deciding feels uncomfortable is a different thing. Take the time if you need it. Just put an end on it. Which of these have you been calling laziness?

Omon EniSep 15, 2026

How you feel about yourself while you are job hunting affects your outcomes more than you realise. You get rejected a few times. You hear nothing back on a dozen applications. And your sense of what you are worth quietly adjusts downward without you noticing it happening. Then you sit in an interview and you are apologising. Not in your words. In how you say things. Hedging. Undercutting your own answers. Saying it was a team effort when you led the thing. The interviewer picks that up before they pick up anything on your CV. They cannot name what is off, they just do not feel convinced. So you never get told, and you conclude you were not good enough. Then you aim slightly lower next time. I have watched this happen to genuinely brilliant people. Rejection is information about a process. It is not information about you. Two questions worth sitting with. Has your sense of what you are worth changed in the last six months, and did anything real happen to justify it? #jobsearch #careeradvice #hiring #interviews