Most people don’t realize when they go on an interview, that they’re sabotaging themselves.  Here are several tips to consider to help you get the job you want.

You Are A Product And An Interview Is Your Commercial

Interviewing is more like marketing than anything else.  You are marketing yourself as a product and you want the interviewer and potential employer to be the buyer. When you sell a product, you want to leave the potential buyer with a top 3 list of why they should buy your product.  Help them make the decision. Or even better, make the decision for them.

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To do this, make a list of all the things you bring to the table.  These are your attributes.  Rank them from your own perspective.  But where most people fail in an interview, is that they don’t rank them from the customer or employer’s perspective.  It doesn’t matter what you think your best attributes are, what matters is what they need.  Position yourself to meet their need and you will get the job.

There are a couple things to consider.

The person hiring you is often not the person making the final decision.  So your job as the interviewee is to give them your top 3 attributes or selling points (which are basically theirs) so that the interviewer can repeat them to their boss who usually makes the final decision.  Bring all your answers and focus your interview on these 3 things.  So much so that when they leave the interview, they can repeat them to their manager.

Analyze your competition.  The most common reason for not getting a job are “we hired from within”.  But think about it.  Normally a company will not look outside if they have a capable internal candidate.  In fact, the search outside is usually initiated AFTER they’ve exhausted internal searches.

Here’s how you should analyze the competition.  Create a pro and con list of hiring you versus hiring your competition.  Now I know you don’t know who you’re interviewing against.  Think in general terms.  I.e. you versus an internal candidate, you versus other external candidates, and you versus the ‘dream’ candidate.  You’ll be surprised to find that there are areas of confluence among the three.  You now have your list.

Know The Difference Between Want And Need

Interview from a place of want.  If you interview from a position of need, say you’re unemployed, and you really need a job, any job, then this will come through as a negative.  When you’re interviewing from a place of want, ie. it’s a job you really want, then your mindset will be different.  Just be careful as coming across as needy will remove you from the candidate list.  Those who already have a job interview better because they’re already in a place of want.  They don’t need the job, they already have a job.

Watch out for self sabotage.

A friend of mine “Bob” was going for a position that was a client facing position.  However, when the interviewer asked Bob where he saw themselves in 5 years, Bob said he saw themselves supporting internal employees in a similar function.  This one comment labeled Bob not only as a bad candidate for this position, but for all future positions in a similar role.

But self sabotage goes deeper.  Some people enjoy misery.  They enjoy the attention they get when they go through difficult times.  They enjoy blaming others for their own situation.  They fail to listen when people offer or are willing to offer sound advice or help.  The cure for this level of self sabotage is much more complex.

These people are in a pattern of extreme self sabotage.  Unlike Bob’s situation above, where he merely made the mistake of not preparing well for the interview, these people do it subconsciously on purpose. Their pattern of negativity is so embedded within their psyche, that they don’t even know they’re doing it.

Does it sound like someone you know?  Someone you know personally…

The cure is simply breaking the pattern.  What their doing isn’t working, yet they don’t see it.  They’ve established patterns of failure in their lives.  The cure is to study success.  The cure is to understand that all things originate from thought, and everything you think can be working against you.

Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life.

There is no way that I can get you to understand the implications of this in one article.  I’ve put this site together to help you see that there can be another way.  But the #1 key to everything is – be happy now.  Shun negative thoughts and replace them with positive ones.  Be grateful for all the good you have.   This will put you in a better position to receive.  Receive what?  All the good that this universe has to offer you.  And that includes the job that is just right for you.