How to Show Up with Power and Passion in Interviews So You Get a Job Offer

There are 2 key things that can make or break you in interviews and that's whether speak with power and passion throughout the interview and you display an in-depth knowledge of all aspects of the job you're applying for.

You also need to create really powerful answers to questions related to problems you've encountered on the job. For each problem, you need to create a PAR (Problem - Action - Result) answer that describes the Problem you had, what Action you took, and the end Result. Be sure your description of the problem is short but sweet. If it's too long, you'll lose the hiring manager right off the bat. Likewise, keep the action you took too.

With result, tell what you did to address the problem and any related achievements (Measurable Achievements where you made or saved money for a previous employer), An Award You Won, or a 2 Line Compelling Recommendation you received from your Manager, a C-Level Exec, a major Custormer or Vendor, etc.)

You should create an answer that you can deliver in 45 Seconds or less. If it's much longer, the person interviewing you will forget what you said in the beginning of your answer and will really hurt you.

Two the most common interview questions are: 1)Tell Me About Yourself and 2) Why Should I Hire You. Since you'll be asked one of both these questions in the majority in your interviews, you need to write down your answers to these question in advance.

Then practice delivering your answer and record your answers on your Cell Phone. Then you can play back your answers, make sure they're 45 seconds or less, and get feedback on the quality of your answers with your family, friends, former co-workers, etc, so you can fine tune and improve your answers.

To really become a great interviewee, you need to pick out 20 difficult interview questions from the 4 sets of sample interview questions I'll give you and then write out your answers to them. Then record your answers to these 20 question, so you can hear quality your answers and whether your answers were complete, powerful, showed passion, and each answer was 45 seconds or less.

Each of the 4 sets of interview questions I'll give you start out as modestly difficult to progressively more difficult. That's why its best to pick out 5 questions from each set to get you to deal with various levels of difficulty.

When it comes to getting great feedback on the quality of you answers, enroll family, friends, and former co-workers in rating your answer to at least 20 tough interview questions. I use a rating scale of 1-5, where 5 is the best.

If your answer to each questions isn't a 5, ask the person playing the role of the hiring where you missed the mark. Not everyone whose playing the hiring manager role will be able to rate you effectively and give you the feedback you need to be be rated a 5 on every question, so pick people that you know can give you great feedback every time.

There are 2 key things that most job seekers fail to do in an interview. One is at the begging of the interview and the other is at the end. At the beginning, you need to a brief ice break with hiring manager to get each of you more comfortable with other.

For example, you might ask the hiring manager what made decide to work for the company or what do you like most of working her. Then you ask the hiring manager what he/she expects to candidate the pick to do in the first 90 days on the job. Writer down his/her answer. You can then use this information during the interview to provide better, more pointed questions you're ask.

You can also it to help you prepare a 1 page, 30-60-90 Plan that you can send to the hiring manager right after your first interview is over. Typically, most other candidates for the job won't even think about creating this plan and that will give you big over your competition. The hiring manager will look at your plan and will be amazed at how you've mapped out what needs to be done in each of the 30 day windows. Be sure NOT to get too detailed since you don't know enough about the job, the department where you'd work, or the company.

One concrete this you can show the hiring manager during that last 10 minutes of an interview is 1-2 powerful and compelling work samples. Be sure to ask the hiring manager to give you 10 minutes at the interview to ask him/her some questions and show your work samples. Otherwise, the hiring manager may us up all the interview time and you won't get a chance to strut your stuff.

I had a work sample for one of my jobs as a User Conference Manager. For one of the conferences I managed, I hired a graphic designer to create the graphic for the conference brochure that we sent to our customers to invite them to the event. We got tons of positive comments about the graph from customer. This became the basis of my work sample.

To create this work sample, I first scanned in the cover graphic, inserted it into a MS Word Document (my work sample), and then gave it raised borders to make it look professional. Then I created a Text Box to the right of the graphic that said, "This amazing cover graphic, the great keynote speaker, the wide array of free courses on our software, and the fun night at Disney World allowed us to get 25 percent more peopl to attend this event and make a 20% profit for the first time ever." When I showed this work sample to the hiring manager, he was blown away. Needless to say, this went a long way in helping me win the job (and I did). You can do this too!

At the end of the interview, always ask the hiring manager if he/she are a good fit for the job. If he/she say no, ask why? If he/she say yes, ask him/her if they have any reservations or concerns about you in the role you're seeking. If he/she pauses and then responds that he/she does, ask what they are. Then give an example from your previous jobs that proves that concern is not an issue. If you don't do this, the hiring manager may be going home a few hours later and then realizes his concern and that will cause him/her to kill you off and take you out of contention for the job. When this happens, you'll never know why except that you'll never hear from hiring manager again.

I hope you got a lot of insights and ideas that can help you nail your next interview and help you get a job offer. Go for it!