Hobbies reflect a person's personality. For newly graduated college students, "hobbies" play an important role in the interview. Because the resumes of college students are generally thin in the work experience part, interviewers often start with the question of "hobbies", and then extend it to asking about the club experience and social experience of the candidates during their school years, and finally examine whether the candidates have the training potential, so as to decide whether to hire. How can you talk about your hobbies during the interview?

The choice of hobbies should be related to the job you are applying for.

According to a survey data of HR in Worry-Free Forum for the Future, 95% of the respondents will take the job seekers' hobbies as the reference conditions for recruitment, among which 78% will examine the job-related hobbies of job seekers as the reference conditions for recruitment, and only 5% will not pay attention to the job seekers' hobbies in recruitment.

Interview is not a simple chat, every question of the interviewer has a purpose. When talking about personal hobbies, candidates need to choose hobbies that are closely related to the job requirements and can show that they have certain working ability. For example, if you apply for an editorial job in a forum, you can introduce yourself that you usually like to visit the forum, but only if you are really a user of a forum, know something about it and can simply tell its highlights or shortcomings. If you still have the experience of forum moderators, it will be a good bonus.

In addition, in the first round of interview, the interviewer usually examines whether the candidate conforms to the values of the enterprise, which can also be judged by the interests of the candidate. For example, one of corporate values is to embrace change. When talking about your hobbies, you tell the interviewer that you like listening to old songs, which may give the interviewer the impression that you are a nostalgic person and may make you lose points in the matching of values.

To sum up, candidates should understand the corporate culture through various channels before the interview, and interpret the requirements of the position in detail, so as to prepare for "hobbies" in advance.

What if you have no hobbies?

For candidates with a wide range of hobbies, just choose hobbies related to corporate culture and job requirements to answer this question. But if the applicant has no hobbies, how to answer this question?

In fact, everyone will have their own hobbies, but some hobbies may not be suitable for interviews, or some hobbies are somewhat negative in the eyes of the public. Candidates are worried that speaking out will give the interviewer a bad impression, so they say they are not interested. But everything has two sides, seemingly negative hobbies may be just the public's views, and may also have a positive side in specific positions. For example, your hobby is playing online games. For college students, when it comes to playing games, it will give others an illusion of indulging in games and wasting time. If you are interviewing for the job of administrative front desk, this hobby may not give you extra points, and even the interviewer who hates playing online games will give you less points. But if you apply for an online game operation specialist, this hobby is your plus item, because many online game companies require their operators to be "online game enthusiasts" and have a lot of online game experience. Just when talking about this hobby, you need to pay special attention: you can talk about your understanding of an online game, such as where it is doing well, where it needs improvement, why you like it compared with other games, and so on. But don't get carried away for a moment and then say something irrelevant to the job you are applying for.

So, don't say that you have no hobbies during the interview. Because this will make the interviewer have all kinds of guesses against you, such as whether this person is withdrawn and lacks passion for life and work, whether this person will be difficult to get along with and can't adapt to team work, and so on. In case you really don't have any hobbies, you can also say something you usually do or are familiar with. However, if you want to answer the interviewer with reading, listening to music and other popular hobbies, you must think ahead of what the interviewer may have. Follow-up questions, such as "What books do you often read", "What book do you like best" and "What kind of music do you like to listen to".

What should I pay attention to when communicating?

Liu Lili, who became popular on the Internet because of the professional program "You Are Me", talked about his hobbies in an interview and said that he "likes Shakespeare's hero double row". Applying for print media editing and saying that she likes literary works is actually a plus for her. Putting forward the strange concept of "heroic diploid" can also show that she has a wide range of knowledge in the field of literature. Then why did Liu Lili lose points from the original bonus? Because, if the candidate doesn't use proper words when detailing this hobby, it will make the interviewer feel that the candidate is pretending to show off.

Therefore, if your hobbies are not as well known to the public as listening to music and playing basketball, and have little to do with the job you are applying for, you can give up during the interview. Of course, if your unique hobby is really related to the job you are applying for, don't hide it. When you explain your hobby to the interviewer, you must summarize it in plain and concise language, saying what you have gained from this hobby or what ability you can exercise. In addition, we should pay attention to communicate with the interviewer with a modest and peaceful mind, don't be aggressive, and don't show impatience or contempt in your speech because the interviewer doesn't understand. Otherwise, even if your hobbies are related to the job you are applying for, you will be deducted.

Interview is a process of comprehensively examining whether the personal ability of the candidate matches the job requirements. No matter what hobbies you talk about, it is to prove that you are qualified for this job. The interview is not to make trouble, nor to prove that you know more than the interviewer. All this is to show that you are the best person for this position.

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