For job seekers, there are two main job interview
strategies to employ, depending on the level of
experience you have in the target job. If you have
significant experience in a job similar or identical
to the target job, your strategy is to assure the
interviewer that you have already performed the exact
tasks and accomplished the desired results of the
target job. If you have not worked an identical job,
your strategy is to convince the interviewer that you
have already performed equivalent tasks and achieved
comparable results in your job. In both cases, you are
trying to establish the fact that you can instantly
come in and begin performing at the target job. The
only difference is how hard you have to work to make
that case.
For both of these job interview strategies, prior
research and investigation is vital. Before you go
into the interview, you should have a clear and
complete vision of what the day to day duties of the
job will be, what results the interviewer desires and
what personal characteristics the corporate culture
most highly values. Whether you have a lot of relevant
experience or not, those are the skills, results and
characteristics that you want to present in your
interview. Finding these things out may require some
time spent reading published material and speaking to
people with familiarity with the target company and
its values and culture.
More Job Interview Strategies To Consider
For someone who has been working a related or
identical job, the job interview strategies you employ
focus on getting all the relevant information out. You
want for the interviewer to know that you have already
been doing all the things that he or she needs done.
The very best way to do this is to tell stories of
having done them. In these stories, be sure to talk
about the situation you were in, the actions you took
and the results you achieved. The more closely you
make these factors match your target job the better.
Your ideal result is for the interviewer to believe
that you could just as easily be talking about the
target job. This lets him or her know that you would
make a quick, easy and predictable transition to the
target job.
For the job or career switcher, the job strategies are
a bit more complex but the end result is the same:
interviewer confidence in your ability. Your strategy
will be to show how experience which is not identical
to the target job’s duties has prepared you to do the
target job’s duties, and to make the case that the
result that you achieve at your previous job are
relevant and equivalent to the company’s desired
results. Doing this effectively requires that you
spend some extra time up front analyzing the target
job’s duties and creating a clear connection between
them and your previous job or personal experiences. If
you can make this case convincingly and vividly, you
will make the interviewer comfortable with your
experience and get the job.
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