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Interview Skills that Win the Job
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Introduction: The path to interview success
Interview Skills that Win the Job offers an innovative and exciting
approach to developing interview skills. As well as letting you know
what’s needed to succeed at interviews, it goes one important step
further and demonstrates how you can prepare your own answers
including exercises designed to improve your skills. People who
consistently succeed at interviews are those who take the time to
prepare their own answers rather than simply using answers they
have read or heard elsewhere.
Whether you’re a recent school leaver or a seasoned professional,
this book will show you how to prepare highly effective answers
and how to deliver them in a confident manner whilst establishing
that all-important rapport with interviewers.
The book recognises that one of the major obstacles to successful
interviewing is organising a vast amount of detail about what you’ve
done in previous jobs (or at school or university) and expressing
this information in a clear and convincing way at the interview.
Interview
myths Interview myths
One important reason people fail at interviews is because of several
misconceptions, or myths, about what really happens during the
course of an interview. All of us know that the purpose of interviews
is for an interviewer to hire someone who will perform well in a
particular job, but beyond that few people fully grasp how interviews
really work and what makes one candidate stand out more than
another. This lack of understanding represents a major obstacle to
maximising performance when sitting before an interviewer and
trying to give your best answers. Interviews are no different to other
endeavors in life: the better you understand how they work (or don’t
work), the higher the probability of tackling them successfully. An
understanding of the underlying dynamics inherent in most
interviews is an important start to improving your interview
performance.
Good-looking people get the job
I suppose if the job was for a drop-dead gorgeous femme fatale type
in a movie, then good looks would certainly help, but for most other
jobs the way you look is not as big a deal as many people make out.
As we’ve already discussed, there will always be an inexperienced
employer who will hire on the basis of superficial factors, but most
employers are smarter than that. The claim that good-looking people
get the job over plain-looking people makes one seriously flawed
assumption—that employers make a habit of putting someone’s
good looks before the interests of their livelihood.