Adriane Schwager has 20 years of hiring experience and says candidates at all levels are showing up to interviews unprepared.
at every level in an organization, from interns to senior leaders to join her in the C-suite. Schwager, the CEO and co-founder of, a hiring platform, says her most important piece of advice applies to people at any experience level: Show up prepared.It sounds simple enough, but she says she's noticed that candidates' level of preparedness seems to have declined in the last five years or so.
Her hypothesis is that this tends to happen when she speaks with candidates who have come to her company through a third-party recruitment agency."Either they're not reading the prep, or maybe they weren't even looking for the role," she says. But, by the time it comes to an interview, she advises doing some research to express your engagement in the opportunity, otherwise it can be a big waste of time.
If you want to go above and beyond, you might get in contact with any mutual connections you have with your interviewer for feedback on what they're like as a colleague or manager.
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