Name: How to Ace a Job Interview: 10 Crucial Tips
Uploaded: 2019-12-03T00:38:57.000Z
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Today, we are gonna be focusing in on how to ace a job interview.

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I'm gonna be giving you 10 tips that you can use to make sure that you're on the hiring

manager's short list by the time you walk out of the room.

But before we get started, I do wanna mention that this video is sponsored by one of my

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First up on our list is to do practice interviews.

You actually have a lot of opportunity to do these.

When I was a college student at Iowa State University, throughout my four years, every

single year when the career fair would roll into town, there would be actual recruiters

that would come to the Career Center and offer up their time to do practice interviews with

Now, these interviews weren't real interviews, but they were real conversations with people

who were hiring managers or HR people at companies who were going to be at the career fair.

So in addition to being good practice for future real interviews, they were actually

good networking experience with people who might be making decisions in the future.

But the main benefit of these types of interviews is that they are great practice for the real

thing, because an interview is inherently a nerve-wracking experience.

So if you have some time to go in and do practice interviews where the stakes aren't so high,

you're gonna be able to come into the real thing with a lot more confidence and a lot

Tip number two is to be as friendly and engaged as you can with everyone that you interact

Now, I don't think people are going into companies and being downright rude to the secretary

or telling people that they don't want to talk to them, but a lot of students will go

into a company, and if there's a little bit of time to wait before the interview, they'll

just kinda sit in the waiting room and stare at their phones.

I can tell you from experience, that people who aren't the hiring manager still do observe

the behavior of potential candidates, and then they talk to those hiring managers.

In a lot of companies, the hiring decisions don't come down to just the people that you

A lot of the times they're going to ask anybody who talked to the potential candidate if they

So if you come into a company and you have a few minutes before the interview, spend

some time talking to the person at the front desk.

Or if they're busy, at least be really polite, greet them, ask how their day is going, and

Also, don't walk into the building wearing headphones.

Tip number three on our list, come prepared with questions for your interviewer.

Now, you might think that an interview is just a situation where you're supposed to

answer the interviewer's questions because they're figuring out if you're the best candidate

But don't forget that you're trying to figure out if the job is right for you as well.

Additionally, coming to the interview prepared with your own questions tells the interviewer

that you are engaged, you're interested in the position, and that you put in a little

While you might think that having no questions makes you seem like you know everything, and

maybe that's a good thing, what it actually does is it makes the interviewer wonder if

you're apathetic about the position, and if maybe you're just doing it for the money.

One question you should definitely keep in your back pocket is, what opportunities for

advancement or additional duties am I gonna have at this company?

The great thing about this kind of a question is it tells your interviewer that you are

willing to be adaptable and flexible and you're willing to learn new things, and that is a

great quality to have in somebody that you are employing if you're a business owner.

Related to my third tip on asking questions during the interview, tip number four is to

research the company before you walk into that interview room.

Once again, this shows a level of preparation and dedication that a lot of other candidates

aren't going to have, and it's gonna help you stand apart.

What kind of research am I supposed to do, Thom?

Well, you can do a little bit of preliminary research on the history of the company and

its business, what you really wanna understand what the culture is like, what people tend

to do there, and what your intended position usually entails.

Now, on the general position and duties side, there are tons of websites on the internet,

so I recommend just Googling, what does a network engineer do, for example, but for

the individual company, you can use sites like Glassdoor and Vault to get reviews from

actual employees and get a little bit of a feel for what the company's culture is like.

All right, we are on to tip number five, which is to bring a notebook and a pen to the interview

Doing this is yet another signal that you are dedicated and detail-oriented, because

you're able to actually take notes on the details of the position during the interview,

but it also allows you to come prepared with some pre-written notes about the company's

history or any questions that you might have.

You should also bring a couple of copies of your resume, just in case it becomes useful

And if you happen to be applying for a position where examples of your work would be useful,

During my last couple of years at college before I became a full-time entrepreneur,

what I would bring to an interview is this leather padfolio which had some resume copies

in it, it had some notebook paper and a pen in it, and I also brought an iPad that I would

keep inside of it which had screen shots of my web development work.

And a little bit of a side note here, I made sure that I had screen shots of web dev work

because in case the company didn't have wifi, I wouldn't have been able to load the actual

Send thank you notes or thank you emails within 24 hours of your interview.

Now, I say thank you notes or thank you emails because in my mind, time is of the essence

here, and in a lot of cases, it's pretty difficult to get an actual, physical handwritten note

to your interviewer, especially if the building that you went to the interview in is far away

So in those cases, a thank you email works pretty well.

But if you happen to have the ability to give an actual handwritten thank you note, and

it's within 24 hours or maybe within 48 hours at the very latest, then that can actually

It should also be noted, and yes, that was a pun, that you shouldn't limit your thank

you notes or thank you emails just to the interviewer.