Job Interview Tips - Part 2
How to have really, really, ridiculously good-sounding answers
Welcome back.
As I was outlining these 2 posts, I remembered one of the many pieces of sage advice Papa F’er gave a young F’er when I was interviewing for some of my first jobs. Papa F’er was always a great father but not someone who you would call a warm, empathetic person, and like most of his advice, it was short and accurate. For both my first job ever (Taco Bell) through internships in college and before my entry level role, his advice about approaching the interview was “Jesus F’er, if you can’t sit there and talk to someone in a way that makes you look good for 30 minutes to do the job, then you deserve to be a loser. It is just a person across the table.”
That sentiment must have stuck and struck a nerve seeing how it summed up a lot of part 1 and how to go into an interview and make it feel natural and enjoyable for everyone.
People remember how they felt a lot more than what was said. And making a person leave the interview feeling like they want to work with you will have them spinning your answers in the most positive light to support you getting the role.
Part 2 will get into the details of how to have great answers to questions.
If you pull both aspects off (positioning yourself as an equal who the company wants and having solid answers to all the questions) it will put you in your own league that gets you the job.
So how do you prepare and answer questions so the substance of your responses match the high-value persona you are portraying?