Stress Interview: Recent Episodes
Matt Schmidt
The job interview can be the most stressful part of the job search process. Find out how to control yourself with the right mindset for the job interview.
What motivetes you? Employers want a candidate that can make a difference. You have tio reflect why you are going for the position and also what your overall career purpose may be.
People may have problems answering about their weaknesses. When this happens it reflects a lack of self-awareness. Understand past mistakes to know what weaknesses are.
People have problems identifying what their strengths are. Or perhaps believing they have strengths.
When developing resumes there is a method used to tell the story of the candidate. It is called the CAR method: Challenge Action Result. A professional faces a work challenge, they design an action and then they produce a result. Something within them got them through this. This is where strengths come from.
You may still have troubles identifying your strengths but think about obstacles in your own life. Identify what characteristics you developed in the face of adversity.
Tell me about yourself. This is a classic question that many interviews start with. The interviewer is seeking a snapshot of your professional experience.
Two issues occur with this question. One is that the candidate gets too much information about their personal lives the interviewer does not need to know.
The second is that they do not know what to say or how to present themselves especially in terms of their career. It requires an aspect of self actualization to understand and answer this.