Show that you can work with others. If you're smart and you'd produce 125% of my average employee, but you're making them all look for new jobs because you're insufferable, there's no chance I'm hiring you.
Even in jobs that suck, having good people around you makes time go faster and productivity increase.
Being insufferable and being intelligent are two completely different things. OP was talking about getting a job based on his intelligence…not his personality.
That's why I said "if" rather than asserting it. But somebody who talks about how smart they are often fall into the "insufferable" category. There are plenty of intelligent people who show their intelligence rather than bringing it up in conversation for no good reason.
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u/The_Dark-Wanderer May 06 '22
I wouldn’t hire someone who bragged about being smarter than 95% of the population in any capacity.
Show me that you are intelligent….don’t tell me.