Checkmate, I won a JOB

#3 Checkmate, I won a JOB!!!

You might be wondering why you need to prepare for a job interview when you have an excellent Curriculum Vitae as a testimony of your qualifications, experience and achieved results.

In addition, you might be deluded by your soft skills such as self–confidence, self-awareness and self-regulation that you are ready for an interview without any preparation.

I fully understand that your CV along with your soft skills makes you regard yourself as a perfect candidate and sniff at the idea that someone should coach you how to handle interview questions.
In practice, your CV is only a ticket which might ensure a face-to-face meeting with an interviewer, and your soft skills are a necessary tool for making the positive first impressions on your interlocutors.

However, once you find yourself at a job interview, you will soon become aware that apart from self-confident attitude, you also need to voice yourself concisely and justify all items mentioned in your CV.

Nowadays, more than ever, the ability to talk and write effectively to people at all levels is a key to a business success. Interviewers are aware of that and that`s why they pay attention to candidates with high language skills.

Therefore, if you want to work for a multinational company and climb a corporate ladder fast, take into consideration that apart from your expertise and experience, high English language skills together with interviewing skills are also decisive criteria whether you will end up with a job or not.

If you want to handle tough questions successfully, your preparation should start with a focus on these four profiles:

 Personal profile

 Professional profile

 Business profile

 Achievement profile

Let us see how this portfolio of profiles functions in practice

 Personal profile is important because interviewers search for personal profile keys to determine what type of person you are. Your answers tell the interviewer how you feel about yourself, your chosen career path and your expectations. That is, a well-prepared personal profile will enable you to give a satisfactory reply to the question WHO YOU ARE.

e.g. Could you tell me something about yourself?

 Professional profile is important because all companies look for people who respect their own profession and look up to their employer. When talking about yourself workwise, you should convince an interviewer that you will make an asset to a company by your professional contribution to company`s performance.

e.g. What are the reasons for your success in this profession?

 Business profile is important because it shows that you are business-oriented and able to manage changes. You will prove that by demonstrating ways in which you have followed guiding business principles:

Care for people you work with
Sell only products or services you can be proud of
Speak with truth and candor
Balance work and private life
Win with long-life learning and constant improvement - KAIZEN
Respect environment whose indispensable part you are

e.g. Why do you want to work for us?

 Achievement profile is important because you need to convince an interviewer that company`s interests are your interests, i.e. that you are able to make money, save money and save time.

e.g. Could you describe how your job relates to the overall goals of your department and company.

Finally, I would like to draw your attention to the fact that all victories have their foundation in careful preparation and well-devised strategies (e.g. the Trojan horse) and that dream jobs do not come to those who sit and wait.
At the interviews, you will maintain the interviewer`s interest and attention by carrying your half of the conversation. What you ask will show your interest, demonstrate your analytical abilities and carry the conversation forward.
Therefore, if we agree on this, the next step is to get down to work and make your dream job become reality soon.

BRAVO! YOU WON A JOB!