Heard at Career Transition Workshop-Dallas, 3/8/10

 

 

Session 9 CLASSY ANSWERS TO CLASSICAL QUESTIONS @ Career Transition Workshop

Learn how to anticipate what the interviewer is going to ask and why. Discover how to answer difficult questions to more effectively sell yourself as the solution.

• People need reminders, not instruction
• Visual overwhelms verbal during interview
• People think with eyes, hear with vision
• Interview is a puzzle, not a mystery
  
• Best way to predict your future is to design it
• If you work hard you can make a living
• If you work hard on yourself you can make a life
• Be ready with the right response

• Learn to listen to learn
• Question the question
• Be-attitudes

3-Steps during Interview

• Know your strengths
• Be able to provide specific success stories
• Present in best possible way examples of success

Answer always NO until you ask the ?

Seek to understand to be understood

Hearing is not same as listening

Tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth, just not the god-awful truth

Lying puts the mistake in the future, Truth puts mistake in the past

Purpose of resume is to get an interview, purpose of interview is to get an OFFER

People are hired for their competence, fired for their compatibility

You get paid to bring value to the market place [job]

You get more $$$ for the value you become

Monday, 3/15/10: INTERVIEWING REHEARSAL

Review the good, the bad and the ugly from observing a staged interview. Practice your interview skills in small group sessions to transfer the knowledge into know-hows.

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