A sample job interview is a great way to prepare
yourself for the real thing with your target company.
However, to give yourself every advantage, spend the
time and effort ahead of time to make the sample
interview as realistic as possible. One necessity for
doing this is to have your sample interviewer go into
the interview with the same priorities and
requirements as the target company, and to ask you the
same questions that that target company might. If you
know someone who has recently interviewed for that
position with that company, you might be able to get
this information directly from him or her. If not, you
might have to generate it yourself.
To generate questions for your sample job interview,
learn as much as you can about what the target job
does, how the employee does it, and what constitutes a
successful employee at that job. That information
should give you a lot of clues about what the
interviewer will ask you in the interviewer. Namely,
he or she will ask you the questions that reveal
whether you can do the job and get the desired
results. To succeed in the interview, your answers
need to add up to a big “yes!” To make sure that your
answers convincingly say that you can do the job, you
will need to do more than simply make that statement.
You need to be able to back it up with stories,
examples and proof from your job and personal history.
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For your sample interview answers, take the elements,
accomplishments and successes that the interviewer
will be looking for and create a miniature story or
example of a time when you displayed or accomplished
those things. Make each story as self contained and
complete as possible, for maximum vividness and
persuasiveness. Give the situation, the actions and
the results for each one. To be really convincing,
make sure that the situation, actions and results
match as closely as possible to the situations,
actions and results of the target job. If you can do
this, you will be in effect describing your successful
performance in the target job. When you have prepared
a number of these narratives, you are ready to
practice them.
In your sample interview, have a friend ask you the
questions which you have developed ahead of time.
Additionally, encourage the practice interviewer to
improvise and make up other questions to teach you how
to deal with surprises in the interview. If you have
recorded the interview on videocassette, review it
later and look for examples of when you hesitated or
did not turn each question into a selling point for
your competency. If you did not videotape the
interview go over each question with the sample
interviewer and ask for feedback of your strong and
weak points. The best part about a sample interview is
that you can keep trying again and again until you get
comfortable.
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