4 Ways to Win More Jobs

By Nick D'Ambrosio

Wouldn’t it be great if you received a job offer after every interview? What if you could convert 25% more interviews into job offers? We all know people with average skills and amazing jobs. How do they do it? One thing I guarantee, they interview well.
While a solid background is always an advantage, it does not guarantee career success. Great backgrounds open doors, great interview skills generate offers! Here are a few keys to help you become an expert at interviewing.

• What is the job? - While this may seem like common sense, few people really know EXACTLY what a hiring manager is looking for. If you find a job through a recruiter, make sure they share with you everything they can about the position. Why is it open? What types of people has this company hired in the past? If you found it through another source, go to Linkedin and look up the company and the backgrounds of their employees. Know what the perfect person looks like…. before you interview.

• Why Hire You? - Have you gone on an interview and been asked, “ Why should I hire you?” Even if that question wasn’t asked, it was on the hiring managers’ mind. Make sure you have a brief “why hire me” story that you can confidently recite on the fly. If you’re not 100% confident in your ability to SELL your background, don’t expect many offers.

• What really matters? - Before you spend 10- minutes talking about how you sold or implemented or saved a company xxx, make sure these amazing feats matter to the person you are meeting. While selling the most routers in all of Texas is great, it may not matter to the VP of Sales at Oracle.

• How to close an interview- We talk to our candidates after they’ve interviewed. Most think they did well. Few know exactly where they stand . If you know you have made it through to the next step, find out what that step is. Ask as many questions as you can about the person you will be meeting and try to set up the appointment immediately. If you did not make the cut, ask why. Perhaps you can resell why you are the right person for the job. If not, you can at least try to gain insight into what you did well and what areas you can improve upon. Your interview skills will improve if you know exactly where you need improvement. While the goal of every interview should be to secure the job, you also need to use these meetings as a way to improve your skills in this area.
All things equal  it’s the person that interviews best that lands the job. Improve this set of skills and watch your interview to offer ratio increase substantially.


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