Turning Interviews Into Job Offers When You Suck At Interviewing

Great employees can be not so great at interviewing.

This creates problems for job seekers who know they can do a great job at doing the job, but struggle to sell themselves. It can affect job searches of staff, managers and executives in every job function (including sales and HR).

You might be able to get away with average inerviews when there are candidate shortages. But when 110M currently employed compete for 11M jobs, this means there are job shortages (if you only count the unemployed, it looks like a worker shortage). And job shortages mean that you've got to up your game, since employers see so many qualified competitors.

Good thing there are ways to turn interviews into offers when you're not great at interviewing:

• Prepare More (And Differently) Than Your Competitors:?Most candidates prepare for interviews by reading the job description, company website, financials, and a few Google links. By doing more than researching the same publicly available information as your competitors, you can uncover a hiring manager's current needs (rarely in the job description). By doing more in your interview preparation, you can prove how much more you can do on the job.
• Your Story Won't Get You Hired:?You'll rarely wow an employer when you tell your story during interviews. That's because interviews are about showing an employer you can meet their needs. So when an interviewer asks "Tell me about yourself", instead tell them how you can meet the hiring manager's needs - It's what the interviewer is really asking.
• Give Employers What They Want:?Employers don't need qualified candidates, because they have far more qualified candidates than interview spots. Instead, tell employers how you can improve their team/department/company performance ... because that's what they want.

Most job seekers who aren't strong interviewers keep trying to do the same things they've been doing, hoping they get lucky, because no one has shown them how to improve interview performance.

Why not learn these and even more ways to improve your interviews, advance more often, and turn interviews into job offers?

Wouldn't it be better if you could learn what to change in your resume, interview and job search strategies so you can show employers how great you'll be at doing the job?

I help people solve the most difficult job search problems, including getting past ATSs, ageism, remote positions, product/job function/career/industry/ geographic change, job search acceleration, unemployment, "bouncy" recent career path, job search turnaround, seeking raise/promotion, industry in decline/consolidation, long term gaps, family leave, or other of the most challenging job search issues.

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