Learning how to ace a job interview could be one of
the more lucrative job skills that a person could
teach themselves. This knowledge will pay for itself
time and time again, both in getting new and better
paying jobs but in the kinds of internal interviews
and conversations which will gain you greater
responsibilities and rewards within your job. Knowing
how to answer the question in an interview situation
doesn’t take any sort of magic power. As a general
rule, this ability comes down to two factors; knowing
what the interviewer wants to hear and being able to
give that to the interviewer.
This does not necessarily mean that knowing how to ace
a job interview means knowing how to make things up
and tell lies to the interviewer. What it means is
taking the history that you have generated in your
life and work experiences so far and using that
history to create convincing reasons for why you can
do the job that you are interviewing for. Naturally,
the first step of this process is knowing what the
interviewer wants and that may very well require some
research. At the very least, before you go into a job
interview you should have a clear and complete idea of
what the daily duties of the job are, what results the
company wants to see the target job achieve, and what
personal attributes the target company’s corporate
culture best values. These are the topics that the
interviewer will be most likely to focus on in the
interview. As you go over this list of duties, results
and attributes, ask yourself this question “If I had
to prove through my past behavior that I could do,
produce and be all of these desired elements, what
examples would I use?”
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Knowing how to ace a job interview more or less
consists of being able to produce those behaviors and
examples into your job interview answers when needed.
One powerful method to do this is to turn these
examples into a story that highlights and dramatizes
your abilities, results and attributes. Compared to
simple, static yes and no answers, these stories
perform have multiple advantages. For one thing, these
stories help the interviewer to visualize and imagine
you performing those behaviors for himself in a vivid
and memorable way. For another, they provide proof
that convinces the interviewer that you are not merely
saying what you want him or her to believe, but are
relaying accurate and relevant information about your
job history.
To really know how to ace the job interview, combine
these previous techniques together. In other words,
tell stories about your job and personal history in
such a way that your actions match very closely with
what is desired and required on the target job. In
other works, use the research that you did to help
shape your stories. Make your situation, your actions
and your results appear as if they could have happened
at the target job. That means that the interviewer
will visualize your story as if you were working on
the target job, and excelling at it. That’s the very
definition of acing the interview.
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