Name: How to Connect in a Job Interview - How to Prepare for a Job Interview – Job Interview Tips
Uploaded: 2020-10-20T19:10:55.000Z
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In a job interview, the person considering you for the job is looking not just for skill verification,

In this video, we'll sit down with three experts to discuss how to build a connection with an interviewer.

We'll go over some DO's and DON'Ts of interviewing.

You CAN prepare for this – it isn't  something you have to leave up to chance.

The right kind of research can make a great positive impression.

At the end, there will also be a quick English lesson on the pronunciation of this word

for my non-native English speaking students.

When you like someone, when you connect, you want to be around him or her.

So in an interview, you want the person interviewing you to like you, to connect with you.

But Cindy, who has interviewed and hired over a hundred people in her career, set me straight.

Here, I asked her how far into an interview she might know if she would hire someone,

It is often pretty quick, within the first ten or fifteen minutes, not always, but often.

And it is usually a connection, if I am hiring that person to work with me.

Meaning that I feel like this is somebody that we could work well together.

So it kind of sounds like you're saying: this is not something that someone can prepare for,

connecting with the person who's interviewing them, is that sort of up to chance, would you say?

No, actually I would say there are there are things you can do to prepare.

I think one of them is to practice your interviewing skills.

Do mock interviews because it makes you more comfortable and the more comfortable

you are in an interview, the more likely you are to have a connection with somebody.

If you walk in nervous and you're not yourself, then the interviewer doesn't get to see who you are,

which means that they may miss something.

And some people interview very comfortably, and help put you at ease, and some people don't.

So you kind of need to just be prepared for that,

and get yourself as comfortable as you can be so that you can show who you are.

I think the other thing is knowing, I think we'll talk about this, but knowing the job. Knowing the organization.

And knowing why you want it makes you compelling. And that helps build a connection.

So like if you walk into an interview, and you can talk about why you want this job, and why it's,

you know, meaningful to you, that's gonna help build a connection with somebody and you can prepare for that.

She mentioned two things:  nerves, managing your nerves, and being comfortable,

and knowing about the position you're applying for,

having a compelling story about why you're a good fit for the position.

These both lead to connection, and these are both concrete things you can prepare for.

In fact, Cindy says connection is so important,

it once led her to hire someone even when he wasn't qualified for the original job.

And there have been times where I've had that feeling, and in fact, I can think of an example of

a guy that I talked to on the phone, it's a  phone interview, and I just,

I felt like he had a really compelling reason for why he wanted to do this work.

He was a career switcher, he was moving from the corporate world into non-profit,

He was very compelling, he was super energized, he was clearly very smart,

he wasn't qualified for the job I was talking to him about, but I liked him and so I said: why don't you come in?

I was hiring for a lot of positions at the time, let's talk more,

and figure out if there's a fit for you because I liked him.

So that sort of connection and compelling piece is really important.

he had solid experience in the business world, and I knew there had to be a way for that to be transferable.

>> Okay, so you hired him for another job? >> And promoted probably three times.

She had a connection with him, she liked him, so she found the right job for him at her organization,

and in fact, promoted him 3 times over her working relationship with him.

Connecting with the person you're interviewing with is key to successfully landing a job.

He had a compelling story about why he wanted that.

So, someone should not just know, I want that job, but they should have a really clear and concise,

maybe not concise, but a very clear, compelling way to describe why they want that,

to make that sort of like their story about,

and that would... So you're saying that kind of articulation can lead to the connection?

Because obviously the person who's interviewing

feels that because they're working in that, in that capacity already.

And of course that's not, I mean, there may be a connection otherwise,

but I do think that stuff matters because ultimately, I'm not looking for you to be my friend.

This is very different from us having just a connection.

I'm looking to say: can we work well together?

I think, so it is, it is different and there are things you can do

to increase the chances of sort of feeling that in a job interview.

We can talk about connecting with a prospective employer two ways:

This will be specific to each job interview you have.

present yourself well through body language and impressive answers to interview questions.

This work of preparing yourself will apply to every job interview you go on.

Taking the time to prepare these two ways will put you miles ahead of a candidate

who interviews for a job without investing the time in good research and preparation.

They will both set you up for connecting with the organization and the interviewer.

The rest of this video will focus on interview do's and don'ts relating to researching

and talking about the organization in a job interview.

The next video in this course will go over job interview do's and don'ts

relating to body language and the kinds of answers to give to specific questions.

For each job you interview for, DO understand what kind of interview you'll be in.

DON'T assume it will be with a single person.

Laura, who is a career advisor at a prestigious college here in the US, tells her students this:

Well, first of all, I talk to them about doing their research.

They really need to look into who they're gonna be meeting with, how long the interview is going to be,

and study the organization, look at the website, really explore in-depth what the organization is about.

I asked her why she tells students to ask about length.  Why does that matter?

It matters because you want to be prepared.

So if it's an hour-long interview, and you're gonna be meeting with one person,

you only do your research on that one person.

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