What is a job interview really about?
Posted 05-31-2013 at 08:41 PM by lifeexplorer
What is a job interview really about? Interview is a skill not a talent. A skill is something everybody can learn, practice and be better while talent is something one is born with.
Besides showing your RELEVANT technical skills and experience, which is only a small part of a job interview, the interview is where you must:
A. demonstrate your confidence
B. build attraction
C. show your loyalty
Confidence is an assurance to the hiring company/employer that you can handle the job, both in your technical skills/experience and your attitude. If you are unsure about yourself or can't even handle yourself, i.e. lack of confidence in yourself, how can they believe that you can handle your job?
Attraction is to ensure that you can fit in the team. If nobody likes you, it’s unlikely you will be hired. Usually you talk to each interviewer for about 20-30 minutes, sometimes longer. During this time, you need to build enough rapport with the interviewers so that they feel comfortable to work with you in the future.
Loyalty is the key to your success in the interview and in the corporate world.
Do you know why would someone hire you? Besides you are technically competent and somewhat pleasant to talk to? The real reason that your boss hires you, a secret nobody will tell you, is that he/she wants you to do what he/she WANTS to do so that he/she can be more successful! Regardless how great you are, if you don’t get this point, you will NOT be very successful in the corporate world.
Besides technical and soft people skills, a big part of the interview process is to figure out whether or not your supervisor can work with you (Translation: whether or not you will be loyal to your supervisor to do exactly what he/she wants to do.) If you don’t get his or her vote, you can be rest assured that you will NOT be hired.
During your interview, you need to convey this message, your loyalty, to your potential supervisor loud and clear.
You should know your values!!!
Make a list of you top 3 strength. For each one, you should write a 2-3 sentence story or description. Personally, I always list "loyalty" as my first strength.
You should know your resume
Know your resume!!! Everything on your resume, you should know by heart. For example, if you put the word “database” on your resume, you’d better know what a database is, what the key components in the database are, what the relationships in between those components are and how you have used it before. If you really don’t know, use Google and Wikipedia to find out - you don’t need to become an expert but you do need to be able to have an intelligent conversation about it. If during the interview, the interviewer finds out that you don’t even know the basics of the database, it would immediately make him/her doubt the rest of your resume.
Practice! Practice! More Practice!
Go to some interviews to practice even you have no intention of taking the jobs. Everybody needs practice so that when your dream job comes along, you can have the skills and confidence to nail it.
Interview is all about FEELING - how they feel about you; however, it is also important to know that the selection is two way, not one way. They select you and you must choose them too.
Besides showing your RELEVANT technical skills and experience, which is only a small part of a job interview, the interview is where you must:
A. demonstrate your confidence
B. build attraction
C. show your loyalty
Confidence is an assurance to the hiring company/employer that you can handle the job, both in your technical skills/experience and your attitude. If you are unsure about yourself or can't even handle yourself, i.e. lack of confidence in yourself, how can they believe that you can handle your job?
Attraction is to ensure that you can fit in the team. If nobody likes you, it’s unlikely you will be hired. Usually you talk to each interviewer for about 20-30 minutes, sometimes longer. During this time, you need to build enough rapport with the interviewers so that they feel comfortable to work with you in the future.
Loyalty is the key to your success in the interview and in the corporate world.
Do you know why would someone hire you? Besides you are technically competent and somewhat pleasant to talk to? The real reason that your boss hires you, a secret nobody will tell you, is that he/she wants you to do what he/she WANTS to do so that he/she can be more successful! Regardless how great you are, if you don’t get this point, you will NOT be very successful in the corporate world.
Besides technical and soft people skills, a big part of the interview process is to figure out whether or not your supervisor can work with you (Translation: whether or not you will be loyal to your supervisor to do exactly what he/she wants to do.) If you don’t get his or her vote, you can be rest assured that you will NOT be hired.
During your interview, you need to convey this message, your loyalty, to your potential supervisor loud and clear.
You should know your values!!!
Make a list of you top 3 strength. For each one, you should write a 2-3 sentence story or description. Personally, I always list "loyalty" as my first strength.
You should know your resume
Know your resume!!! Everything on your resume, you should know by heart. For example, if you put the word “database” on your resume, you’d better know what a database is, what the key components in the database are, what the relationships in between those components are and how you have used it before. If you really don’t know, use Google and Wikipedia to find out - you don’t need to become an expert but you do need to be able to have an intelligent conversation about it. If during the interview, the interviewer finds out that you don’t even know the basics of the database, it would immediately make him/her doubt the rest of your resume.
Practice! Practice! More Practice!
Go to some interviews to practice even you have no intention of taking the jobs. Everybody needs practice so that when your dream job comes along, you can have the skills and confidence to nail it.
Interview is all about FEELING - how they feel about you; however, it is also important to know that the selection is two way, not one way. They select you and you must choose them too.
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