by Martin Yate
21. July 2009 10:29
| Job interviews can be scary and one of the fears we all share, at some level, is that failure to land the job is an indictment of our worthiness.
Here are seven simple steps to dramatically improve your performance at job interviews and make a greater success of the job once you are in the saddle. Listen up, your ability to turn job interviews into job offers is going to undergo an exciting transformation.
Step #1 Understand Employer Priorities. Really know that target job by developing your own job description for the coming interview. Take any job description that is available from the employer or recruiter of the target job, and then collect six more job postings for the same job. From this collection create one single all-embracing job description:
• Find a requirement that is common to all 6 jobs. Write a single entry that captures how all employers seem to describe this area; be sure that you list all the keywords the different employers used to describe skills, responsibilities and deliverables in this one area.
• Repeat this process for every other responsibility common to all six jobs.
• Repeat this process again for requirements common to 5, 4, 3, 2 and then just 1of your collected job postings
The result is a comprehensive document that defines the priorities and demands of job and puts in your hands an outline of all probable areas of inquiry.
Step #2 Define the relevant skill sets you bring to the table. Under each bullet point created in Step #1, enter the relevant skills used in the execution of that particular responsibility, plus the education and/or special training necessary.
Step #3 Practical problem solving. Jobs hold one thing in common: success and failure ride on the solution and prevention of the problems that regularly occur in that job's daily grind. Think about your job in terms of the problems it is there to solve and to prevent, and then go through that first, "common to all six jobs" bullet in your composite job description and identify the typical problems that occur with executing this aspect of the job.
Consider the ways you have both prevented and tackled this type of problem in your work: addressing the problem's origin, followed by your analysis, the solution, its implementation and the results. Read More
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Martin Yate CPC
NY Times Business Bestseller
10 books in 25 languages
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