Emotions > Logic
So yesterday I posted my first blog post on Brazen Careerist. The title of my blog post was “Flirt with the Interviewer.” You can read the post for yourself and comment about what you think of it.
The reason I wrote this blog post was that I wanted to demonstrate to people that it is possible to take risks during an interview and come out ahead. Yes, flirting during a professional setting can be dangerous, and that is why it’s completely up to you to gauge your interviewer and measure whether he or she is the type of person that would flirt back.
As I expected, some ladies took offense to my post and said that any type of flirting in a professional setting is completely inappropriate. This is a strong case of Emotions being greater than logic. First of all, a male has written a post about successfully flirting with a woman, so naturally women will have their guard up while reading the post. Logically it makes sense. Women use their sex appeal all the time to get what they want. Women use it at a lounge so that a guy will buy her a drink, they use it at school to get help with homework, and they use it during the recruitment season to get a job. Guys cannot help being attracted to a good looking woman with a great personality that has walked into the interview room (Just so you guys know, I fully respect woman and their intelligence. I’m not saying that the reason a girl gets a job is because of the way she looks. I know that women get jobs because of their qualification and their experience. I’m just pointing out that looks play a major role in the recruitment process)
My goal with this post was to show that men can do it as well. More importantly, I want people to understand that there are people out there flirting with the interviewer right now. I want you to be able to use every single weapon in your arsenal in order to achieve your dream job.
I am very thankful to all of the people who commented on my post. You guys offered great insight and also made some very valuable points come out. You showed how people naturally make decisions and react to things on an emotional level rather than on a logical level.
Remember fellow CMOs, people make decisions based on their emotions. Use this to your advantage when you are developing a marketing campaign.
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