AOL has an excellent article in the jobs section today. Read it today if you’re being interviewed in the near future. It will motivate you and it’s a perfect checklist.
It’s a given that you must be qualified, experienced and professional. If you’ve scored an interview, you’ve already cleared one major hurdle, because in 2011, hundreds of people may have applied for the same job. But again, it is 2011, meaning you won’t be the only candidate to land an in-person interview. There will be as many as ten others.
About.com has an excellent section on jobs. One article walks us through questions likely to come up during the interview and offers examples of the best answers for you to give. Some of the difficult questions they tackle include, “Why were you fired?” “Who was your worst boss?” is another interesting question. Although each of us could probably quickly name that person, haven’t we also heard that we should not badmouth any previous employers? They stuck the landing on their suggestion; see what you think when you read it.
Many employers are looking closely at your behavior during the interview, because they believe it predicts your performance on the job as much as your resume does. This is where the rubber meets the road. These interviews are difficult to prepare for, because you need a past, and you need to be able to tell the truth about that past, on the fly!
Quintessential Careers has an excellent posting about behavioral job interviews. If you look at the job description, you can easily state in your cover letter that you have those attributes. In a behavioral interview, however, you will have to give specifics about how your skills were put to the test in your past, and what the results were. This isn’t a fun process, but if you read this post and follow its guidelines, you might have just the Positive Image they need!
Save these links for a rainy day if you’re happy in your current job. In this economy, anyone could find themselves on the market.
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