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`An Interview Considered an Academy Award Performance

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Challenge of advancing your career during ...

`Why is an interview considered a performance?

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Interviewing is a stressful and difficult situation. Your professional life is on the line. You must walk into each interview with an agenda of what you want to communicate to demonstrate your qualifications, and you must quietly control the interview to be sure that you paint a picture of knowledge and success as you position yourself as the right candidate for the position

The goal of a successful interview ...

`Exercise #1:

What is the #1 reason people fail in job interviews?

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`Answer:

They are not properly prepared

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`Who could compete with you for a job?

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`Exercise #2:

What is the official term for tactical behavior people use in the workplace to get ahead?

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`Answer:

Office Politics

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The Importance of Standing Out From Workforce Competitors

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Inter-office Intimidation

You Get One Shot With Each Company, Whether Promoting or Interviewing

Why Do You Think Recruiters Get Frustrated?

They Are Sick and Tired of the Lies!

Recruiters agree most applicants do not directly lie about previous positions, but will conceal jobs that have been failures or where they have been fired. So, although they have told the truth, they haven't told the whole story.

Lying about skills and experience in job interviews is standard practice for many applicants - industry analysts say the figure is 35 percent and rising. Dishonest applicants figure if the lies work they might get the job; if they don't, they lose nothing.

To Catch a Predator - ask a series of relatively straightforward questions, which the applicant might answer calmly. Then watch the reaction to a tougher question.

`Exercise #3:

What is a common thing people who feel they interview well often say?

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`Answer:

I usually just wing it.

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Todays goal ...How to strategically position yourself as the perfect candidate in a promotional or job interview setting

Perform your research

Gather job descriptions

Instead of, Ive done this and this and this.

Create Accomplishments! :

What you didHow you did itWhy it needed to be doneOverall benefit to the department or company

Differentiation between daily task work and actual accomplishments

Each sentence of each accomplishment must be no longer than 12 words

Why?You have six seconds to catch an interviewers attentionThen, up to 20 seconds To keep their attention a maximum of 45 seconds

Listening statistics ...

I restructured our Accounts Payable monthly reporting process.

What you did ...

I restructured our Accounts Payable monthly reporting process. I built macros in an Excel spreadsheet that performed month-end calculations automatically.

How you did it ...

I restructured our Accounts Payable monthly reporting process. I built macros in an Excel spreadsheet that performed month-end calculations automatically. Previously, our entire close process was done manually.

Why it needed to be done ...

I restructured our Accounts Payable monthly reporting process. I built macros in an Excel spreadsheet that performed month-end calculations automatically. Previously, our entire close process was done manually. My effort reduced our entire departments month-end close from five days to one.

Overall benefit ...

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Now its your turn ...

If I were to accomplish three things my first month of employment and you were to consider me successful, what would those three things be?

What would be priority for someone who accepts this position?

What have prior, successful employees in this role accomplished?

Intelligent Questions ...

Its interesting you need someone who can _______________, at ABC Company I ...

I read that in the job description. At ABC Company I ...

I thought that would be essential for success in this role. At ABC Company I ...

Then Segue in to Your Accomplishment...

The importance of keeping an interview conversational ...

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