Career Guide: How to Impress Your Interviewer

In an interview, be sure to be equipped with information about the firm that will be going to interview you. Background checking and research about the firm will do. This will enable you to give response to the classic opener questions like tell me something about yourself, siblings do you have, talents and skills, etc.

But, if things were prepared very well, you can position yourself as one of the probable solution to the organization’s problems. You may want to say something like you were once engage in an activity that increases productivity, attended seminars to manage activities well, boost morale inside the firm, etc.

 Do not unload all your answers at once. Save more answers to questions like, “How can you add up to the productivity of the company?”, “What can you contribute to our group?”, “Why should we hire you?”, etc. To get more answers, reading about the company’s profile is not enough. Research more about it line of competition and its competitors as well. Compare the performance of your prospective company against its other competitors. Say that you’re applying for a job and your research tells you that the company’s market share was diminishing. Be ready when the interviewer challenges you and as you how would you sell their product to increase their shares. This scenario happens most of the time. Be sure you’d done your homework. Lousy statements such as working hard, improve more or compensate with other services will not work. They may prompt to give follow-up questions like how, why, what, etc.

To support your answers, it’s best to propose your marketing strategy. Show him that you’re prepared. Explain to the interviewer the situation they’re lying in right now and show the possible solutions with supporting items or evidences. You may also say that you’re one of the possible remedies to the long-agonizing pain the company’s encountering right now. You will now have an edge over other applicants surging to get the job.

Some applicants don’t smile during interviews. Some were too nervous to show their knowledge, worst, they even fidgeting and shaking during interview. Please do try to avoid these. 

In researching more about the company, these modern days, internet is the widely use researching tool. Everything is in the World Wide Web just like the other people said. Another way is to attend job expo or job fairs. Get all the fliers, hand out, or grab CD’s or soft copy of their presentation if they allowed it to do so. Ask also the organizer about their company profile. You might as well get in contact with your possible interviewer. Try to talk with someone who also lies in the same line of industry just like you. It can be your relatives, friends, or other colleagues. Remember, do not try to put your resource person at risk. Avoid asking too much confidential questions and other proprietary items. Just catch a glimpse of what the job is or what are the needs of the company, the trainings and skills they required for the applicant.

In addition, next time you’re going to attend an interview, face the interviewer equipped with the same core values, knowledge, and mind setting, just like the other company’s employees have. Let it shine through you until the employer realizes that you’re also part of the company’s personnel and the only thing left behind is a job contract.