Interview Technique-The Awkward Pause

You have prepared for your interview by considering every possible question that may be asked. Although you are nervous, you feel ready. And then it happens, the silence is deafening…no one is talking. How do you handle the awkward pause? Are you supposed to talk? Is the interviewer going to say something? Jeez…what do you do? I call it ‘The Art of the Awkward Pause’ and it is purposeful and is just one technique in the recruiter’s interview toolbox. Today we want to share that techniqu...