Do you feel stuck at your current job with no room for growth? Are you sticking around so that you can support your family? I can resonate with this. I’ve also been stuck and couldn’t find a way out.
I’m Holly, an ex-Amazon recruiting leader. As a career coach, I help clients from senior to executive levels regain their confidence to find value and purpose within the right career.
The goal here is not just to help you get hired but to get you that ideal job so you can be energized. Follow my step-to-step guide to help you master storytelling in your upcoming job interviews.
In this blog, I am sharing and teaching you my five interview strategies to ace job interviews.
Step 1: Do your research
Step 2: Develop clarity on what you want
Step 3: Who were you able to help in your position?
Step 4: What is your accomplishment?
Step 5: Combine and create a brief introduction about yourself
Step 1: Do Your Research
Getting a job is a long and tiring process. This is why you must have a good start.
There are many mistakes, from minor to major, that candidates make, which lead them to face bitter consequences later in the process or end up not getting a fair trade if they get the job.
Let’s talk about the biggest mistakes that most candidates make.
Recruiters help every candidate in a specific way that might or might not be best suited for you or how you work or want to progress. Don’t wait for recruiters to prep you for the interview; do the research yourself. You know how well you can learn and what your learning curve is, and how you can improve your standing among the other candidates. You can check out my videos on Youtube or other blogs regarding the Amazon interview strategies and examples where I talk about Google search and Glassdoor. This was created based on extensive experience in the field, and I want to help professionals get the position they desire.
This is one of the resources that you can look into thanks to the world being a global village; there is a vast amount of data already present on how these interviews go, what kind of questions are asked, and what has worked for different individuals. Another resource addresses: what should be the thinking pattern and how not to get confused with the curves thrown at you in the interview.
Step 2: Develop clarity in what you do
After going through the resources, you want to learn about the position, and you need to know what you want before the interview. Speaking with confidence will benefit the interviewers more; pleasant greetings with a bit of a pun also won’t hurt your chances and will show how prepared you are to take the position head-on. Having clarity of what you want will create a positive impression. Following along, here is a guide to help you make better storytelling from a personal example.
First, you need to talk about yourself in less than a minute. For example, I am the career coach for technical leaders with nearly twenty years of industry experience as a technical recruiter, leader, and trainer.
Step 3: Who were you able to help in your position?
Do the following questions usually revolve around who were you able to help? So, for example, I helped my clients get unstuck from a dead-end job by regaining their confidence and defining the values and purpose in finding the next big thing for them. Similarly, how were you able to help your colleagues or team overcome a problem? Remember, working as a team player is one of the most important hiring criteria most employers look at. Companies look for a problem solver and a catalyst in team performance.
Step 4: What is your accomplishment?
Lastly, what was the accomplishment? As for me, just in the short weeks in my career accelerator master class, my clients received recruiter messages from LinkedIn on job opportunities. They were able to speak with confidence and could visualize being in the right job.
Most companies hire for potential success shown by the shared values in the candidate’s experience. They look to fill their workplace with the people who believe in what they do.
If you follow my training step-by-step, you will have a hundred percent clarity on the focus area to pass job interviews, and some of you will bring home a job.
Step 5: Combine and create a brief introduction about yourself
Finally, let’s combine the steps we called; tell me about yourself in less than one minute. Here we go:
“I’m a career coach for technology leaders with twenty years of industry experience as a technical recruiter, leader, and trainer. I helped my clients get unstuck from a dead-end job by regaining their confidence and defining their values and purpose in finding the next big thing for them. Just in a short few weeks in my career accelerator master class, my clients received recruiter messages from LinkedIn on many job opportunities.
They speak with confidence and can visualize being in the right job. If you follow my training step-by-step, you will have a hundred percent clarity on the focus area to pass job interviews and some of you will bring home a job.”
Have your version of the introduction. Make it one minute or less and practice.
Either record it on your phone or in front of the mirror. People often find it hard to introduce themselves, but the key is to say it 50 times. Let the introduction flow naturally and make it sound like you’re super proud of what you accomplished.
Here’s a script to help you get started:
I’m (name). I’m a (job title) with (x) years of experience. I helped (share one or two big achiements). Now, I’m ready for (share your goal or vision).