Marketing Your Skills in a Behavioral Interview
- Introduction
- Managing change: Seeing opportunity in job searches
- Preparing psychologically for a new job
- Uncovering our Unique Talents and Values
- Accomplishments exercise
- Focusing on the A’s; not the D’s to bring out our strengths
- Marketing our strengths
- Preparing for the Interview
- Designing our individual sound bites
- Building our confidence
- Three tips to handling nervousness
- Designing a first impression
- What does our “look” say about us before we open our mouths
- Responding to Behavioral Questions
- Understanding the reasons behind the questions
- Using the STAR process to interpret and answer interview questions
- Linking our strengths to their questions
- Answering behavioral interview questions
- The Interview: Putting It all Together
- Establishing rapport
- Balancing confidence with humility to create a great impression
- Turning a Q & A interview into a dynamic dialogue
- Making the last impression a lasting one
- Developing a Plan for Succeeding in an Interview
