Note: This video seems excellent due to provide a number of key tips what to expect questions and how to answer them properly. Detailed questions would vary case by case, but these tips should be universally applicable from an intern to high-tech jobs. Speed is little bit fast, but pronunciation is clear enough to understand. Have fun and Good luck on your job hunting...!
If you wanna learn how to ace of your interview, stay
tuned. We’re about to talk about it with
Maggie Mystle who is a life-purpose & career coach who can be heard regularly
on Martha Stewart’s Living Radio on Serious.
Thank you so much for being with us.
You show up, you dress up properly, you walk into the
interview (room and) meet the interviewer what’s the first thing to do when you
walk in? I love to smile and obviously I
think you can tell by that, but I’d like to make the interviewer just as at
ease as I’m trying to be, because it’s really that this interview is
conversation that you’re gonna have with other person who is a human being and
it can be a real ice-breaker if you can be just relax, at least give yourself a
Hi, how are you? Or even try to talk about weather or some type of other ice
breaker that kinda give everybody a chance to take a deep breath. Because this is evaluative conversation and can
be nerve breaking for both parties.
So an interviewer says to that perspective employee, why do
you wanna leave your job?
Yes, that’s always a great question, isn’t it? And you have to be prepared for those key
questions especially why you’re moving on.
Now you’re moving on because you can’t stand on your boss. Right?
Which happens a lot and we all been there, but you don’t wanna say
that. What you do wanna say is that you
really need to be a place in that I can be managed and developed and where I
can get guidance or mentoring that you really wanna focus on things that you’re
looking to get as opposed to all those reasons why you don’t have it now.
Well there are some people who walk into that interview and
they walk in a little defensively because they really need a job and they hear
the word: you’re overqualified and they’re willing to take a job and do best at
it. How do you handle (if) you’re
overqualified?
You can say things like.
Well you I’ve really thought about that if I were in your shoes, I would
be asking the same question. And when I think about it I can tell you the fact
that I’m looking to down shift. And I
know this industry well and I don’t need to be in charge and I’ve been a person
on the toe-to-toe before, I can do it again and I’m really looking for a place where
I can contribute, but I don’t have to be the one who’s running the show, and I
really address the concerns which are behind the overqualify comment.
And then they may say you just don’t have just enough
experience for us.
Well for the folks that are just starting out maybe a new
career or college students who just graduate out of a high school and need work
role. That’s just common problem. So again I go back to internships are great
anywhere you can get some experience on your resume that you can
demonstrate. Hey I may not be the one 10
years in the field, but this experience in that summer I didn’t know anything
going in, but here how successful I was.
So you wanna show situations where you went in without a lot of experience
but still you were able to succeed. This
is where reference can be so helpful as well.
Even if you don’t have a lot of experience, anybody can be great reference
for you even teacher, professor, or even someone that you were volunteer for who
can attest to your ability to learn quickly and perform well can be a great asset.
We really like you how much money that you’re looking for? Such a trick question.
It is and for that questions you definitely wanna do your
homework. This is one of the best use of
the Internet, salary.com, indeed.com, monstor hotjob, a lot of them have salary
calculators associated with them now. So
you can look up the job title, and geographic area and get the range of salaries
for that position and find where you would fit base on your level of experience. Briefly if the interviewer hasn’t brought up
the word salary issue, should you? Not right away. In initial conversation, you wanna get to
know whether or not this job is even it is good fit for you. I always tell people to become a superstar to
this person first. And then you will be
in much better place negotiating salary.
And they may be even pay more because we can’t let Denis go she is such fabulous
candidate, we’re only gonna pay this much, but now let me find out for Denise
willing to do more.
Healthcare, flex time, vacation time, these questions should
bring up during a first interview or you wait for comeback and meet Mr.
Smith?
Right wait for comeback because again the first interview
should be about is the company that I can picture myself in and vice versa for
the interviewer and if it is a place you can see yourself and do that do really
be yourself and really let them know why you’d be fantastic fit.
Well we’re certainly happy to have you with us. Thank you so much Maggie Mystle.