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How to Prepare for an Employment Interview -- now available by e-mail in Microsoft Word format.
Sample chapters:
Selling Yourself in an Employment Interview
What You Need to Know About Business
Asking Questions -- An Essential and Overlooked Step
Other articles:
Putting a Spin on Work Experience
Claims & Credibility -- The Essence of Selling
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Gary Will's WORKSEARCH:
Selling Yourself To An Employer
Chapter 8: (continued)
THE POSITION: How will you make a contribution?
From the book How to Prepare for an Employment Interview.
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What could you do to attract customers or help to make them delighted with the company's products or services? What innovations might you be able to introduce?
What's the work environment? Are you working in a team? What are your hours?
What emotions might you experience on the job?
Are you in a little office in the back? Plainly visible in an open space? Ever see the outdoors? Do you deal directly with customers?
Who do you work with? What's their age range, background, gender? What other departments in the company do you come in contact with?
What are you wearing? What are your co-workers and customers wearing?
Imagine someone incompetent or inexperienced in the position:
What might they do wrong? How would this affect the employer?
What kind of problems do they create that you would avoid?
Now imagine the ideal person:
What are they doing that you can do?
How are they helping the company and contributing to customer commitment?
What useful abilities or experience do they bring to the position that the average person doing that kind of work might not have?
PREPARATION LIST: The position
List all the tasks you can imagine carrying out in this position.
List the skills, abilities, knowledge, experience, and traits are needed for success in the position as you see it.
Describe the working environment.
For an advertised opening, what kind of people do you think will be applying? What kind of skills or experience will they likely have?
For each key task, skill, trait, etc. how do you evaluate ...[continued here]
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