Strategies For Getting Employment In face of Global Crisis

Due to global unemployment militating against young talented graduates, there is need to equip themselves with wherewithal required to excel in job interview. There is superficial understanding of how interviews work and interviewers think. Of course, you are being evaluated and you have a justifiable reason for wanting to appear articulate, credible and attractive .However, your goal should not be to give a good performance. You actually have for goals: to build rapport, create a relationship that last beyond the interview, understand and address the potential employer’s concerns and priorities and beat the interview like a human being, not an adversary. Your emphasis should be on overall fit, not fancy footwork.

So before you unleash a canned one-size-fit all answer to the question flying in over the plate, stop. Rein your impulse to provide an automatic response. Instead, view the interview strategically. Your meeting is not about you answering a string of unrelated questions. It is your chance to paint a coherent picture that develops and reinforce fundamental themes.

Before you answer, take a moment to figure out where the interviewer is coming from. What does he really want to know? What does the question means? How does it relate to previously asked questions? What is appropriate in this context? What pitfall lurks beneath the surface of this question? Where will your answer lead?

It is always wise to anticipate topics that will arise in an interview. Job seekers who wing it often blow it the key to confidence is thorough preparation. But there is a discussion between thinking about how to approach certain issues and prefabricating canned response that you regurgitate on how concerns:
1. The employer’s need, priorities and values and
2. What you should say about your skills, abililities, aptitudes value, style and motivation to give the interviewers an accurate picture of you.
The good news is that there are only two interview questions. That is, regardless of what you are asked, the employer really only want to know:
1. What value can you add to my enterprise or organization as an employee (can you prove it)?
2. Why do you want this job?
3. Why should you (as against others be given this job)?
Every interview question probes some discussion of your capability or motivation. The problem is that interviewers sometimes ask question without knowing why they are asking them. Therefore, they cannot always distinguish a constructive answer from an evasive but adroit dodge. Moreover, some questions should not be taken at face value. The challenge for job seekers, then, is to build and buttress a coherent picture of their strengths and figure out what is going in the interviews ahead.

Adetoye Adebamowo


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