Job interview coaching is a great investment for
someone who is beginning their new career, like just
out of college, and wants to get their big break. For
these applicants, a bit of professional coaching about
what to expect during the interview process and how to
best perform can give them the confidence and tools to
succeed in a strange and challenging process. But for
the rest of us, those of us who have already been in
the work force a while and even been through a fair
amount of interviews already, interview coaching may
not be quite as valuable. Fact is, most of us already
know what happens in an interview. We even know when
one is going well and when it is not. What we require
more than coaching is advice on how to keep them going
well, more consistently, until we get the job.
This kind of job interview coaching can be obtained by
our own thinking and practice. It also is more likely
to consist of advice to prepare better than ways to
change our actual performance during the interview
itself. One imaginary scenario that would help you to
envision what a well prepared and coached job
interview candidate looks like is to imagine that
someone would be required to interview for their own
job. If that person were asked “Tell me why you should
get this job” he or she would have reams of specific,
relevant, convincing responses to that question.
Namely, they would list the experience they have doing
that job, the times they achieved that job’s most
highly valued results, and examples of when they
displayed that corporate culture’s most desired
characteristics.
Job Interview Coaching Considerations
The best job interview coaching anyone could receive
would give him or her the kind of insight into the
target job that the current employee has. Ultimately,
however, coaching cannot provide that insight. Only
research can give that level of knowledge about what
the employer is looking for. One area where coaching
can help is turning that knowledge into the kind of
responses that make your interview shine. Essentially,
once you know what the interviewer is looking for you
know what questions he or she will ask. Namely, the
questions that will elicit those facts from you.
Even more importantly to job interview coaching, if
you know what the interviewer is looking for you can
give him or her the responses you want. Basically, you
want to be like that hypothetical employee
interviewing for his or her own job, only you will use
the experience that you have gained in other jobs as
the examples of why you can perform the target job.
Ideally, your stories of success in the workplace
should be as close as possible to the realities of
what the target job requires. That allows the
interviewer to have confidence that you can perform
the job with a minimum of training and adjustment.
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