IMPRESS THEM DURING THAT JOB INTERVIEW

Impress Impress Impress them during that job interview

1. Equip yourself with ample research on the company’s needs. Visit LinkedIn.com and the company’s website. Simply Google the company’s name or a combination of the company name + targeted keywords to vet as much detail about the company for which you are interviewing as possible.

Read between the lines about how their current growth patterns, product or marketplace positioning and so forth speaks to present and future needs – their areas of pain.

2. From that info, ferret out where you sense their needs and your talents intersect. Make sure you prepare at least 4-5+ mini-stories (Challenge-Action-Result format) that vividly describe how you have achieved solutions similar to problems this company has faced, or will face. Paint a picture that YOU are their solution, a better fit than the next interviewing candidate.

3. Prepare for the multiplicity of questions interviewers often ask, such as:

1. Tell me about yourself.

2. What is the greatest value you can bring to us?

3. Why do you want to leave your present position?

4. What qualities do you admire in others?

5. What are your salary expectations?

6. What does ‘success’ mean to you?

7. What is the most stressful situation you have experienced at work within the past year, and how did you handle it?

8. What would your current (or past) employer say about your work?

4. Prepare questions to ask them, such as:

1. What are the greatest challenges you’re facing in your industry?

2. Is your industry/business growing?

3. What is the most important thing I can do to help within the first 30 days of my employment? 60 days? 90 days?

4. What did you like most about the person who previously held this position?

5. To the interviewer: What excites you about this job? What do you like most about this company? I’d like to know something about your background and how you came to work here?

6. What main factors do you attribute to your growth?

7. What do you attribute to the success of your company?

8. What makes you better than your nearest competitor?

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