Job-Hunt Intelligence - Converting Job Interviews into Job Offers

Published: Fri, 07/29/16

By Martin Yate

You go to job interviews because you need a job to keep food on your table and a roof over your head. You don’t want just any job, you want one with the opportunity for you to do well and with the salary increases that will deliver a rising quality of life.

Go about job interviews in the wrong way and, by the time you’ve reached 40, steady professional and financial growth will have passed you by. Instead you’ll have had a string of jobs that are pretty much the same, and you’ll be wondering what went wrong and the answer will always come back to the lost opportunities at jobs you didn’t get. It doesn’t need to be this way.

A New Approach

While you probably have many professional strengths, and you know all about the technical skills and professional accreditations you must have to be successful, there is one skill that no corporate experts ever consider important -- because all this special skill does is help you.

What do I mean?

Look at the years’ experience and the number of jobs you’ve had and work out how much real time and successful experience you have turning job interviews into job offers -- not so much huh?

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Editor’s Choice

We have many articles in Job-Hunt about how to be successful in your job interviews, supplementing the excellent information in Martin Yate’s article, above. Like these:

The Top 4 Job Interview Success Secrets
Don Goodman breaks down the job interview success process into 4 steps which he describes in detail in this article. From researching the contacts you may who are past employees of the company to looking your best on the day of the interview, Don offers very useful information.

How to Answer 15 Common Job Interview Questions
Most interviewers ask the same or similar questions. These are the 15 most commonly asked questions with help providing good answers. From the infamous “greatest weakness” question to explaining about being fired from a job, find help preparing good answers here.

 45 Good Questions to Ask in Job Interviews
If you don’t have good questions to ask during your job interview, the employer will assume you are unprepared or not interested. Check out these questions, compiled by Job-Hunt’s Editor Susan Joyce, as a solid starting point to develop your own questions.

 45 Questions You Should NOT Ask in a Job Interview
Some questions shouldn’t be asked (“How big is the employee discount?”), and some questions should be saved for the negotiations after you’ve received a job offer. Check out these 45 questions, again compiled by Job-Hunt’s editor, to keep from giving an employer the wrong impression.

 Leverage LinkedIn for Your Job Interview
Author Laura DeCarlo offers great tips for using LinkedIn to be more successful in your job interview, from finding the hiring manager’s contact information to learning more about the interviewers before the interview. LinkedIn is a gold mine for job search!

 Beat Pre-Interview Stress
Stress can force errors in job interviews that can damage your chance of landing a job. In this article, author Laura DeCarlo offers 7 tips to beat pre-interview stress.

The Waiting Game After the Interview
Recruiter Jeff Lipschultz explains what is probably happening after the interview while you are waiting to hear from the employer. Silence from the employer after the interview is not necessarily a bad sign, and Jeff helps you understand what you should and should NOT be doing while you wait.

Interviewing: The Game You Can't Lose
Author Laura DeCarlo explains why job interviewees have nothing to lose and much to gain from going on a job interview. She describes a great mindset for your job inter
views.

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