Gary Will's WORKSEARCH:
Selling Yourself To An Employer
Chapter 7
What you should know about business
From the book How to Prepare for an Employment Interview.
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[Chapter 7: continued from here] ...As part of a focus on customers, all companies require innovation to create new products and develop new markets, or to improve existing products to stay ahead of ever changing customer needs and expectations. Any evidence you can provide of your ability to be innovative or offer suggestions is also worth mentioning.
In the next chapter, we'll go through some more ideas about how to figure out what you have to offer an employer.
PREPARATION LIST
Using business principles to determine how you can add value
- Who are this organization's customers?
- How is value created for customers? What are their requirements and expectations? What
customer problems does this organization solve?
- What can you do to help the organization get and keep customers? How can you help meet
customer requirements and exceed customer expectations? How would you contribute to a superior
customer experience?
- What do you know about the future needs of this organizations customers? How will their
expectations and requirements change?
- How can you be an advocate for the customer within the organization?
- What evidence of innovation can you refer to in the interview?
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