#INTERVIEW NOTEA HOW TO#

It’s probably good advice, but this chapter focuses on convincing the employer/panel that they need you. This chapter will not be concerned with the things you normally hear about preparing for an interview – the things your mum, the internet, and every magazine, will tell you to do – do your hair, shine your shoes, be on time, be polite, remove facial decorations, keep eye contact, and do, (or don’t,) wear red.

#INTERVIEW NOTEA HOW TO#

Selling anything requires a “sales pitch” and in this chapter you will learn how to prepare your own sales pitch and sell the panel on the idea that you are the person they need. You are often told to “sell yourself” at an interview, but that advice rarely includes how to do that. It is different from writing a response to the criteria it is a very different task with a different purpose. Everything you say to the interviewer, every answer you give to a question, must contain an assurance that you can manage one or more duties of the position. Now the focus is on you showing you can use these skills to carry out the duties of the position. Only five or six out of dozens of applicants have won the right to attend an interview and present their case. Just to make it to the interview is an achievement. They only interview people they are sure have the required skills and experience. To have been given an interview you must have convinced the panel that you have the skills listed in the selection criteria. Preparing for an Interview: a sample from Chapter 11 How to close the interview with a forceful selling statement.How to frame your questions so they promote your skills to the selection panel.How to add further important information about your skills.How to write the notes that will be a guide to your reply to a question.

Preparing the selling message that you want the interview panel to hear.

Interview notea