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Job Interview Success: 10 Essential Tips

1. The document provides 10 commandments for job interviews that vastly increase one's chances of finding a job. It recommends starting by targeting small organizations with 20 or fewer employees and expanding the search if unsuccessful. 2. It advises using a network of 80 friends and acquaintances to find potential opportunities and doing research on oneself to clearly communicate what is being sought. 3. Thorough research should be done on any organization before an interview using informational interviews and online sources to learn as much as possible and impress employers.

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Job Interview Success: 10 Essential Tips

1. The document provides 10 commandments for job interviews that vastly increase one's chances of finding a job. It recommends starting by targeting small organizations with 20 or fewer employees and expanding the search if unsuccessful. 2. It advises using a network of 80 friends and acquaintances to find potential opportunities and doing research on oneself to clearly communicate what is being sought. 3. Thorough research should be done on any organization before an interview using informational interviews and online sources to learn as much as possible and impress employers.

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THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

FOR JOB-INTERVIEWS
Whereby Your Chances of Finding a Job Are Vastly Increased
I. Go after new small organizations with twenty or fewer employe
es,
at first, since they create two-thirds of all new jobs. Only if you turn
up nothing should you broaden the search to slightly larger organi-
zations, those with fifty employees, then if that doesnt prove to
be a
successf ul strategy, organizations with one hundred employees.
II. Hunt for places to interview using the aid of, say, eighty friends
and
acquaintancesbecause a job-hunt requires eighty pairs of eyes
and
ears. But first do homework on yourself so you can tell them exactly
what you are looking for. (This is discussed further in chapter 7.)
III. As for who to interview, once youve identified a place that
interests
you, you really need to find out who has the power to hire you
there, for the position you want, and use bridge-people (those
who know you and also know them) to get an introduction to that
person. Employ LinkedI [Link] and similar, to find these people.
(See chapter 8.)
IV. Do thorough homework on an organization before going there,
using
Informational Interviews (see chapter 8) plus the Internet to find
out
as much about them as you possibly can. If you have a public library
in town, ask there too.
V. Then prepare for the interview with your own agenda, your
own
questions and curiosities about whether or not this job fits you. This
will always impress employers.
VI. If you initiated the appointment, ask for just nineteen minutes
of
their time; and keep to your word strictly. Watch your watch.
VII. When answeri ng a question of theirs, talk only between twenty
sec-
onds to two minutes, at any one time. Try to be succinct. Dont keep
rattling on, out of nervousness.
VIII. Basically approach them not as a job-beggar but humbly
as a
resource person, able to produce better work for that organization
than any of the people who worked in that position, previously.
IX. At the end of the interviewing process, ask for the job: Given
all
that we have discussed, can you offer me this job? Salary negotia-
tion should only happen when they have definitely said they want
you; prior to that, its pointless.
X. Always write a thank-you note the same evening as the interview
,
and mail it at the latest by early next morning. This in addition to
e-mailing it. The tendency these days is for job-hunters to only e-mail
a thank-you note. You will stand out from the others if you do both.

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