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Discover 3 Unusual Take-Control Job Interview
Techniques©
by Charles Ethos
You’re at the halfway
mark in your job interview. With these last 2
steps, to reach the finish line, you need to stay sharp and alert in applying your job interview techniques. No missteps, no dropped baton,
and no mistakes. Many a job interview is won or lost down the stretch. Like in chess, the job interview endgame tends to be a shaky
skill.
Step 3: Taking Control of the Interview by Asking
Questions.
Did you know that when you’re
permitted to ask interview questions, you take command of your job interview? It is permission
driven. It’s the only time the tail wags the dog. Use it wisely. The interviewer is handing you
control of the interview.
Take it!
If you fail to impress during the
first 2 steps it is unlikely the interviewer will view you as a potential colleague. Colleagues share control. And colleagues are co-workers.
Get it?
3 Secret Take-Control Job Interview Techniques
#1: Grab Control by Overlapping Your Interview Steps 1 &
2.
This is the most obvious and most
valuable tactic.
The more you overlap Step 2 and Step 3 in your interview question sessions, the more
your interview shifts from an inquisition to a chat. A chat, in contrast to a hammering question-and-answer session, gives you an opportunity
to slide into the driver’s seat.
Nothing is more natural than asking job interview questions during a
chat.
This is powerful because the
interviewer has warmed up to you.
#2: Let Perception Become Your Interviewer’s
Reality
As I mentioned in job interview
Step 1, up to 93% of face-to-face communication is nonverbal. Like an Academy Award™, your
interview is not won by your words but by the picture your words and body language creates.
Asking the interviewer questions is a subtle art.
How do you take control of your interview from the
interviewer who controls you? And how can you convince the interviewer to stay relaxed?
Be convincing! Be so convincing in the first 2 steps that the interviewer feels they
just discovered an old forgotten colleague. Call it rapport; call it simpatico.
Notice that in every job
interview step your focus is to build momentum, credibility, and trust. Are you building momentum?
The last
secret…
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