Interview For Success: It's Your Move
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Finding the work you want can be a daunting challenge. The rules have changed, the playing field has been rearranged and the players are unpredictable. Those who play smart will learn a lot about themselves and the dynamic environment of the workplace.
Playing smart includes being ready for every conversation that focuses on your career direction. It could be an informal chat with an old friend or a formal interview. It could be a networking meeting or a brief encounter with a new acquaintance. Regardless, you need to prepare thoughtfully and practice often before you put your message out there. Begin by composing your scripts and then increase your competence by developing answers to standard interview questions. This special edition of It’s Your Move helps you prepare for this very important part of the career transition process.
Marge Watters
MARGE WATTERS is a co-founder of KWA Partners, one of Canada’s premier career transition and job search management firms. She holds a master of divinity degree and a bachelor of arts in economics, and she spent nineteen years in the financial services industry. The combination of her business acumen and skills in working with individuals during times of personal change has given her a unique ability to counsel both employees experiencing job loss and organizations undergoing change.
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Interview For Success - Marge Watters
Marge Watters
Interview for Success
It’s Your Move
Contents
Cover
Title Page
What You Need to Know Before You Start
Prepare Your Scripts
Interview for Success
More from It's Your Move
About the Author
Copyright
About the Publisher
What You Need to Know Before You Start
You can’t control the wind, but you can adjust the sails.
Good career management skills are your ticket to continually having work that is challenging, rewarding and meaningful to you. Though an employer might assist you at times, the long-term responsibility for planning and directing your career is yours alone. From the time you first enter the workforce until you retire permanently, you need to be deliberate about moving from one opportunity to another, pursuing your interests, honouring your values, leveraging your knowledge and engaging the skills that you most enjoy using.
Finding the work you want can be a daunting challenge. Employment opportunities come and go with changing economic cycles, industry trends, technological innovations and demographic shifts. Every time you’re planning a career move, it’s a new game. The rules have changed, the playing field has been rearranged and the players are unpredictable. In order to succeed, you must refresh yesterday’s strategies and embrace today’s reality. Those who play smart will learn a lot about themselves and the dynamic environment of the workplace.
Playing smart includes being ready for every conversation that focuses on your career direction. It could be an informal chat with an old friend or a formal interview. It could be a networking meeting or a brief encounter with a new acquaintance. Regardless, you need to prepare thoughtfully and practice often before you put your message out there. Begin by composing your scripts and then increase your competence by developing answers to standard interview questions. This special edition of It’s Your Move helps you prepare for this very important part of the career transition process.
It’s Your Move fully explains the steps needed to make a positive career change. It offers a logical process and practical tools designed to help you make choices that are right for you. It explores the challenging issues you will face at every stage of the career transition process, and provides proven methods for identifying and landing your next opportunity.
Prepare Your Scripts
Everything you say counts.
How you say it counts even more.
All of your preparation for the job search process will be put to the test when you have the opportunity to talk about your career plans. Whether you are in an interview, a networking meeting or a casual social encounter, what you say and how you say it can drive your success or derail it. Don’t wait until you have a formal interview scheduled to do the foundational work on the verbal presentation of your past experience and future plans. Prepare thoroughly now and be ready to engage confidently in any career-focused conversation. Your preparation will afford you the opportunity to see if the way you describe yourself and your accomplishments substantiates your targets. It also provides a checkpoint to test whether you are headed for an opportunity that fits your ideal.
It’s crucial to understand that you’re always on stage during the job search process. Colleagues, networking contacts, search consultants and hiring managers are collecting information regarding your competence and style with every word you say. Be conscious of the image you project with your appearance, body language, tone of voice and choice of words. Anticipate what others will ask you and be ready with truthful, thoughtful and professional answers.
Tip: Any conversation, regardless of its casual beginning, can turn into a full-blown interview without advance notice. Be ready for this possibility at all times.
An excellent way to prepare for verbally presenting yourself and your career plans is to draft and rehearse ascript called the five sound bites.
To begin crafting it, take some time to think back