Interviews can break you if you haven’t rehearsed everything correctly. Then again over rehearsing can break you in a similar way as well. It’s an absolute minefield. Sometimes Knowing what not to say can be better than shoehorning any old phrases in. However there are some that can be applied to most interviews. Anyway, onward, to: what NOT to say. Here are a few choice phrases. ‘I don’t know’ The obvious answer if you genuinely don’t know the answer to something. Often you have to play the game of looking informed or at least interested in informing yourself so try repeating the question very slowly to yourself or saying ‘what an interesting question’. Buy yourself some time and genuinely think about your answer, you never know you might actually know. Not knowing suggests you are giving up. Of course one can be honest. Using the Phrase in the past tense where relating to something outside of your bracket of expected knowledge is more appropriate. If you’re informed of something that had escaped you, a simple: “interesting, I didn’t know that” response is honest yet attentive. ‘I think outside of the box’ There is a special irony to saying this because ...

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