From the book How to Prepare for an Employment Interview.
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This book shows you how to sell yourself in an employment interview.
We've already discussed the importance of identifying personal characteristics that are important for success in the job.
Traits like the ability to learn, to make decisions, to trust and cooperate with others, and to communicate are becoming essential requirements in growing numbers of organizations.
But there's more to a hiring decision than consideration of your technical abilities and your personal traits that affect those abilities. The company is selecting someone who's going to be in their workplace, at their meetings and staff get-togethers, and possibly just a few feet away for several hours each week, week after week, possibly for years to come. It's important for them to choose someone who can become a member of their work group or team.
Will you fit in?
The last thing the employer wants is to choose someone they can't stand working with or someone that they feel uneasy being around. And they have no need for someone who's highly skilled that for whatever reason won't achieve the results they're capable of.
This is often one of the employer's biggest anxieties, and one that you must address during the interview. Interpersonal compatibility, motivation, and reliability are all key factors employers consider in deciding who to hire.
If they have a happy, close working team in place, they probably won't hire a morose loner no matter how qualified he or she is. They'd end up losing more than they'd gain. And even if you have all the important skills, they won't mean a thing if you're not motivated to use them or aren't reliable.
You've already listed your traits that are required for success in the position you're inter-viewing for. If you did a thorough job of analyzing the position, you have ...[continued here]
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