A mock job interview can be a powerful training tool
in your efforts to become an effective, offer-getting
job interviewer. In the mock job interview you
practice all the techniques that you need to use to
turn job interview questions into opportunities to
sell yourself to the interviewer. If you can videotape
this interview, that’s even better. That will allow
you to take a look at yourself from the perspective of
the interviewer and see the areas where you need the
greatest improvement. For maximum results, you should
incorporate the mock job interview training process
with the efforts to prepare for an actual interview.
That way the research and practice you do for the real
interview and the mock interview can reinforce one
another.
To prepare for a mock job interview, the first step is
to do intensive research on the target job you are
interviewing for. As a general rule, this is one area
that pays bigger and bigger rewards the more
thoroughly and fully you do it. In an ideal world, you
would like to be as informed about the job as a
current employee of that job is. Though that is an
unlikely prospect, at the very least you can get a
clear and accurate picture of what the job does on a
daily basis, what results the company expects from
that employee and what attributes and characteristics
the company culture believes indicate a successful
employee. To gather this information, you will likely
rely on a combination of researching published or
online material with a lot of personal interviews and
investigations of people who have worked in that
company or field.
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Use this information to prepare for your mock job
interview and real job interview by first compiling a
list of the top ten or fifteen elements that you
believe the job requires. Those things could include
specific experience, a history achieving specific
results, educational background, characteristics, and
attributes, whatever your research shows to be of
greatest interest to the target company. It’s a very
good bet that this list is a pretty good guide to what
questions the interviewer is going to ask you. For
that reason, as you look over that list, think of ways
that an interviewer would ask you a question to find
out whether or not you possess those elements. Write
those questions out for the mock interviewer to use.
Now you know both the questions that the interviewer
will ask and the answers he or she wants, you are
ready to prepare the answers for your mock job
interview. Turn your existing experience, attributes
and characteristics into examples, anecdotes and
evidence that would convince the listener that you
have the desired attributes. Provide a brief synopsis
of the situation, the actions you took and the results
you achieve for each attribute or element for the mock
interviewer. In addition, have the interviewer throw
unforeseen questions at you to teach you how to
quickly use the example and anecdote system to answer
questions that come as a surprise.
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