CORPORATE LIFE
by Gale Horton Gay
ghorton@ccgmag.com
HOW TO INTERVIEW WITHOUT FEAR AND INTIMIDATION
G
oing into an interview confident and prepared to answer questions to determine if a position is a good fit and realizing that both the individual and the employer are on a fact-finding mission is the best
way to approach a job search, according to one consultant.
Talia Fox designs solutions to improve leadership and management skills to increase work and life outcomes.
themselves as perfect as possible and figure out how to be so perfect that they will decide they want you. That’s the wrong approach, she said.
Talia Fox, Career Communications Group job trainer
She describes interviewing skills as “really the skill of articulating the best of who you are and being able to craft language that’s persuasive and powerful.”
Prospective employees should approach an interview “knowing they need you just as much as you feel you need them.”
She said it’s not about being humble.
She described how interviewees get dressed up and go to an interview with the mentality that they are trying to make
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Instead, interviewees should say to themselves, “I have a set of skills I would like to market to contribute value to an organization, and I am going into this conversation identifying opportunities to see if it’s a good for fit for me and for the organization,” she said.
Fox said those looking for their first job, transitioning to a new job, or in search of a dream job should consider this strategy: Go to an organization’s website that you want to work for and look at job descriptions for positions similar to the one you want. “The job description gives you a road map to the types of experiences and things that relate to the job you want later. Then figure out how to gain the experience [and] skills needed for those types of jobs.”
Fox said interviewing is, in essence, “a communication game, a branding
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