It is a failure of our educational system that it is
possible for students to get through elementary
school, junior high, high school, college and even
graduate school without ever learning how to interview
for a job. After all, interviewing for a job is one of
those life skills, which repays the learner many times
over through that person’s life and career. Luckily,
there is nothing particularly complex or mysterious
about learning how to impress interviewers in a job
interview. All it takes is some common sense,
preparation and practices. The common sense comes from
knowing what interviewers are looking for when they
sit a candidate down for a job interview; they are
looking for someone who can come in and immediately
begin producing the results the company expects, and
can continue to produce all the required results
throughout the career with the company.
The research portion of how to interview for a job
means that a candidate should go into the interview
knowing as much as possible about the job he or she is
interviewing for. If possible, the interviewee should
go into the job with as much knowledge about that job
as a current employee has. This research might be
partially done online and by reading published
sources, but should also include a lot of personal
questioning. Talking to people who have worked in the
target company or field can give a very realistic and
informal perspective on what the job requires from the
employee on a daily basis.
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The Practice portion of how to interview for a job
means that you know how to turn your experience,
thoughts, attributes, education and interests into
answers that make the interviewer believe that you are
the right fit for the position. Naturally, this comes
as a direct result of your research into the position,
and what the company is looking for in the position. A
candidate should practice describing himself or
herself as the kind of candidate that the company
wants, and imagine that he or she would be asked to
prove or explain why he or she is that kind of person
for each attribute.
You will know that you are learning how to interview
for a job effectively when you can provide stories and
examples that parallel or match the conditions and
situations in the target job. Ideally, you will be
able to describe your past successes and results in a
way that makes the situation, actions and results of
your past experience more or less identical to those
elements in the target position. When you are able to
do this in an interview, you will be creating visual
images in the interviewer’s mind of yourself
performing the target job in exactly the way the
company wants it performed. When the interviewer can
imagine you doing that, it makes you a much more safe
bet for the company, and reassures the interviewer
that you will require a minimum of time, energy and
money to become productive.
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