Your strategy for a successful job interview is best
realized by creating a clear vision of the kind of
candidate you want to be during the interview. You
want to be the kind of candidate who the interviewer
knows is capable of performing the required tasks
immediately upon hire. You want to be the kind of
candidate who obtains the most valued results for the
company. You want to be the kind of candidate who
clearly fits productively into the corporate culture.
To best appear to be that kind of a candidate, your
model should be someone who already fits all those
categories: A current employee of the company.
Imagine the successful job interview that a current
employee would have for their position. They would not
have to guess what the company is looking for. They
would not have to guess what questions the company
would ask. And they would know exactly what answers
the company is looking for. Because of their in-depth
knowledge of what the company is looking for in that
position, the answers they could give the interviewers
would create the most attractive image possible. They
would know all the job duties, could give example of
the most valued results and convincingly give stories
of how they had contributed to the corporate culture.
If you can develop that level of knowledge, then you
can have that kind of strategic advantage when you
craft and deliver your interview answers.
Successful Job Interview Preparation Secrets
Clearly you can’t achieve exactly the same level of
familiarity with a target company as an existing
employee, but you can still ensure a successful job
interview. At the very minimum, you should do the
research necessary to give you a clear understanding
of the job’s day to day duties, the job’s most desired
results, and the characteristics and attributes which
the corporate culture most values. Some of this
information will come from published sources, but
other pieces may come from in person research that you
conduct with those in your social circle who are
familiar with the company and field. Use this
information to guess what questions your target
employer is likely to ask you to elicit information
about these areas from you.
A successful job interview can be yours if you
successfully prepare your stories of job experience in
a way that convincingly presents your experience as
preparatory for the target job. To do this, practice
ways of describing your success on the job in ways
that mirror or parallel the successes the target
company is looking for from their next hire. As a
general rule, telling these examples in the form of
stories with a situation, an action and a result will
make them more vivid, memorable and persuasive. The
more convincingly you can demonstrate that you have
already achieved the target jobs and obtained the
desired results, the more likely your interview is to
result in a hire.
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