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Craft and aim your answers
An interviewer needs to discover about you, your abilities, skills, attitude to see your suitability to the job. It is important your answers are brief, concise, focused and directed to the job requirements. Before you attend the interview, it is important to spend time to know about the job description, company, interviewer, industry..
• About the organization - Visit company website and find out about the company. What does it do? What are their products? Explore to understand their business, future growth plans. What are the current challenges?
• About the industry and competition - Know the industry in which it operates. Who are their competitors? What are the industry challenges?
• Latest news - Check on the latest news about the company and industry.
• Job description - Understand the job description. Check the requirements e.g. qualification, abilities, skill, experiences, deliverable, roles, responsibilities, reporting structure for this position. Keep your stories ready to tell.
• Interviewer - Find out about the interviewer. Know about him, if possible.
Use company website, industry association, latest financial results as well as your network to get deep insights. This will help you to understand about the role, requirements and job challenges. This is your target.
Ensure your answers hit the bull's eyes using specific words from job description, company values and industry language.
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Taking time to think and writing an answer to the interview question will help you prepare the script. Writing a response sharpens your thought process and gives an opportunity to review the response and make improvement to the script. You don’t need to memorize the answer.
Thinking through, writing and reviewing the response to the interview questions increases preparedness, boosts the confidence and reduces anxiety. It builds up a repertoire of stories for easy retrieval and you can now focus on delivery during the actual interview. Your confidence spirals upwards with each answer and increases the chances of a better outcome.
Prepare well before the interview. Know the common interview questions. Learn the dos and don’ts. Write, practice and improve your specific response either by yourself or by feedback from a family member or a colleague or a teacher. You will gain mastery through practice.
As they say, if you want to be good at something, then you must practice to learn, and grow.
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