The best candidate never gets the job!
Interview is your one of the most important step in securing admission to your dream b-school. Failure at this point means all that went before it counts for nothing. Also, it’s your future in the balance.
When it’s your future in the balance, you need to deliver a superb interview performance. We all spend time and effort getting: The right training, the right qualifications, the right experience, the right contacts, the right interview opportunity, etc.
But no matter how impressive your credentials are or how brilliant your experience is, it’s your interview ability that makes or breaks your admission dreams.
It’s not the best candidate who succeeds … the best interviewee does!
You may already know (or suspect) that there is much more to interviews than tough questions and clever answers.
Yet how much time and effort will you spend on actually preparing and training for interviews? Sadly, very little I suspect - even though knowing how to cope with and be successful at interviews is such a vital, yet simple skill.
Therein lays an opportunity for you, because your competitors won’t be as well equipped for interviews as you. So it is also quite possible that you can beat other people who are better qualified and more experienced than you, all because you came across better in an interview situation.
How do you become the best interviewee?
Interviewing is a skill that you need all through your life. You will change jobs surprisingly often - sometimes even when you don’t want to. This will mean more interviews, even as your marketability improves.
Interviews can be frustrating and scary because you know that even a small mistake can cost you the admission to your dream b-school. In the past you could have felt scared, nervous and even exhausted by an interview. You probably had butterflies in your stomach, sweaty palms, and a pounding heart.
You may even confess to being frightened deep-down by the prospect of an interview.
Your Interview Solution to any interview in any industry
Human nature remains the same across industries, so don’t get hung up about your industry specifics because those questions will only be a very small part of what you will be judged on. If you weren’t qualified for your industry, you would not have been called for the interview. So the interviewers are looking for some other information about you.
The entire interview process is unraveled as follows:
* Understand the concerns behind every interview question so that you answer appropriately
* Be able to research any employer thoroughly today without too much effort
* Know how a typical interview proceeds from start to finish - and your part in it
* Learn how to prepare mentally and practically for any interview
* Know how to behave, speak, dress and sit during an interview - all with style
* Understand how to listen to and answer questions intelligently
* How to avoid common and easy-to-make mistakes that ruin your chances
* Be able to provide relevant and brilliant answers to the 135 most common questions
* Quickly determine the type of person they want and realign your behavior to match that
* Learn how to rescue an interview that is going badly (without making things worse)
* Know the topics that interviewers like to talk about and the ones you should avoid
* Understand how to keep your nerves under control - which is a great life-skill on its own
* Be able to deal with unusual interviews such as phone, meal, group and panel interviews
* Know how to end an interview professionally and diplomatically, no matter how it went
Imagine going to any interview knowing that you have a good chance of clinching the position. Think about how it would feel to actually look forward to every interview for the rest of your life. Why not know how to project yourself as positively as possible for a change?
Today you may be stressed about your next interview. But the stress you’re feeling is pointless unless you know how to make any interview turn out how you want it to.
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