Tips for Job Interview Success

Tips for Job bewerbungsinterview SuccessCredit Edyta Pawlowska/Shutterstock Your resume and cover letter might be important in landing a job, but the interview is what secures your position with a company. As any job binnenseeker knows, there are a lot of factors that make or break your chance of being hired.Interviews can be nerve-wracking, said Michael Steinitz, executive director of Accountemps. Unlike the resume, which you can review several times until you feel its perfect, you only have one chance to make a good impression.Want to secure your dream job? Here are four job interview tips to ensure success.1. Be preparedPreparation, or lack thereof, directly affects performance in interviews. If you believe youre the perfect fit for the position, you need to prove it to the hiring manager.Employers are looking for candidates who provide the wow factor and can immediately demonstrate the value they bring, Steinitz said. Showing up for the interview unpr epared tells the hiring manager that you have little interest in being hired.Hiring managers dont always ask you about your resume, though, so you need to be prepared for alternative types of questions.Behavioral interviewing is a pretty common technique among hiring managers, said Joyce Maroney, director ofThe Workforce Instituteat Kronos Inc. That means fewer questions involving recitation of your accomplishments and more about how you produced a particular result and what you learned from that experience. Prepare yourself by reflecting on your key accomplishments and ... what you learned from each.If you have any remaining questions, such as what your job will entail and if there is potential for growth, write them down so you can mention them in the interview, Steinitz added.2. Go for a hard sellWhile a job interview is an opportunity for you to see if the company is the right fit for you, its primary purpose is for you to sell yourself as the best partie for the position. Richa rd Maltz, senior recruiter at Hirewell, reminded candidates that their qualifications alone wont get them a job offer.An interview is really more of a sales pitch in which you are both the sales person and the product, Maltz said. You need to be able to articulate your value as an employee through examples and accomplishments that match up with what the positions and companys needs are.Tony Beshara, owner and president of recruiting and placement firmBabich Associates, said that candidates shouldnt be afraid to sell themselves strongly and aggressively.They need to ... convey what they can do for the company that nobody else can, Beshara said. The best way to do that is to share previous experiences and tie success stories to what they can achieve in the new job. That means knowing their strengths with regard to the open position, and selling any features, advantages and benefits that would apply.3. Think before you speakOne common nervous habit of job candidates is to answer a que stion too quickly and ramble, without really knowing where their response is going. This often happens when a person is thinking about how they will respond to the question instead of fully listening to whats being asked.Bryan Lewis, chief operating officer of Third Bridge, said thinking about your answer thoroughly before speaking even if it means theres a moment of silence after the question shows that youre present and paying attention.Candidates shouldnt feel the need to immediately speak, Lewis told Business News Daily. Think about the question youre asked and ask clarifying questions to prove that youre practicing active listening.4. Always follow up the right wayWhen an interview is over, most job seekers know to send athank-you notewithin 24 hours via email.Always follow up with a thank-you note to each person who interviewed you, said Steinitz. This professional courtesy is an opportunity to restate how you can contribute to the organizations success and reiterate your e nthusiasm for the position.But a good follow-up is more than just a cursory thank you. Instead, a candidate should restate their understanding of the job requirements and how they can fill those needs, Maroney noted.During your interview, you should have picked up on specific objectives the hiring manager has for the position, Maroney said. Give them something that will remind them why youd be successful in meeting those objectives especially if youve given it more thought and have a new thought, idea, perspective or solution.Maltz recommended asking about the interviewers timeline in making a decision. That way, you can time your follow-ups based on their timeline to avoid overcommunicating.The goal is to keep yourself in the hiring managers mind but not to the point of being bothersome, Maltz said.Additional reporting by Nicole Fallon. Some source interviews were conducted for a previous version of this article. Sammi Caramela Sammi Caramela has always loved words. When she isnt working as a Business.com and Business News Daily staff writer, shes writing (and furiously editing) her first novel, reading a YA book with a third cup of coffee, or attending local pop-punk concerts. 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Selling You With Confidence and EQ

Selling You With Confidence and EQ Selling You With Confidence and EQHave you ever wanted to sell yourself or your ideas mora effectively? Have you ever felt you could use an extra edge in a big meeting or job interview?Emotional intelligence, which is known as EQ, is the ability to monitor ones own and other peoples emotions, discriminate between different emotions and label them appropriately and use emotional information to guide thinking and behavior.One of the leading names in EQ is Daniel Goleman, who has authored many books on psychology, science and leadership. He suggests that EQ is actually more important than IQ. That is why it is common to find that some of the most successful CEOs and other leaders in companies have high levels of EQ. Leaders with high levels of EQ can empathize with, motivate and inspire their team and therefore drive results. Using this social intelligence, we can differentiate among emotions and use the information to guide our thinking, actions and r esponses. People with high levels of EQ will effectively be able to respond to tough questions or difficult people.As a coach certified in inspiring leadership through emotional intelligence, Ill explain part of a process called Coaching with Compassion. We attempt to take a client to the Positive Emotional Attractor, which we like to call the PEA state. When someone is in this state of mind, they are more likely to be open to new ideas and perceptions. To get here, we ask carefully selected questions that trigger responses in the body that arouse the parasympathetic nervous system. When this PSNS is aroused, it reverses the effects of stress and the arousal of the sympathetic nervous system (SNS).During the process of getting to the PEA, one is first brought to what is known as the ideal self. It is this piece that I want to focus on for the purpose of this article. This ideal self consists of three major components awareness of ones strengths, an image of ones desired future and t he hope that it is reachable. This positive vision of ones ideal self arouses hope, again stimulates the PSNS and is an important piece in order for someone to able to sell him or herself with confidence.In contrast to the Coaching with Compassion model, many managers, teachers, coaches and trainers tend to coach for compliance. By doing so, they tell people what they should be doing or what they could be doing to change. Those annual employee reviews are good examples of coaching for compliance. Also, images that one sees everyday such as ads, movies, magazines and television often depict unrealistic images of success to entertain us, but it is just that entertainment. This is the ought self and it conflicts with the ideal self.What makes you, you? What are your strengths? Uncover your unique selling points, or USPs. What are you passionate about? In order to achieve success, you need to know where you want to go. Understand your values.Project confidence, even if you dont feel con fident. Your body language, eye contact, smile and attitude all tell others about yourself without you saying a word. Nonverbal communication governs how we think and feel about ourselves.The Principle of Retrospective Rationality basically means your brain wants to behave in a fashion that is consistent with ones beliefs.Act, feel and be its a cycle, fake it until you make it. If you act confident, you feel confident, and therefore, you are confident, so if beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then confidence is in the eye of the audience, hiring manager or any other observer.Power posing has been proven to increase testosterone levels and decrease cortisol levels in your brain. Power dynamics are nonverbal expressions of power and dominance. In the animal kingdom, its stretching out, making oneself big its about opening up. This is not limited to the animal kingdom, though. Do you have a big meeting or interview youre prepping for? Go early and before you check in with the recept ionist, go to the restroom and power pose for two minutes in the mirror. Extend your arms out and make a Y shape and hold it for two minutes, or if you have an office, take up space in your chair and hold that big pose. Dont attempt this in the actual interview or meeting though that could be awkward.Dont fake it until you make it, fake it until you become it because you are not you, you are a superstar.