The document provides tips for nailing a job interview. It discusses that interviewing is like dating and timing is key. It outlines some of an employer's common fears such as a candidate lacking skills, not staying with the company long, or costing the company money. The document advises bringing out your best qualities in the interview by having concise two-minute responses, being a solution rather than a problem, relating how you will do the job to how you conducted your job search, and providing evidence of your skills and work.

1. HOW TO NAIL AN
INTERVIEW
By
Danielle Stierna
Erika Cain
June Ko
Stephanie Camello

2. How to Interview
Interviewing is Like Dating
Timing is Key
Employer’s Fears
Bring Out Your Best

3. At some point this
will be you

4. Your Issues of Interviewing

5. This is Not a Science

6. How to Interview
Interviewing is Like Dating
Timing is Key
Employer’s Fears
Bring Out Your Best

7. Interviewing is
Like Dating

9. An Employer’s Fears
 Lack the Skills
 You Won’t Be There Long
 Cost the Company Money

10. How to Interview
Interviewing is Like Dating
Timing is Key
Employer’s Fears
Bring Out Your Best

11. 20 sec/2 min RULE
• Responses should be about 2 minutes
• Sometimes responses can be as good as 20
seconds!
• Don’t be a grunter

12. Be the SOLUTION
Not the
PROBLE
M

13. How you do your job is related to
how you job-hunt –to your
employer
 Employers can
tell when you
do a half-
hearted job-
hunt
 Don’t assume
that the
employer thinks
the two are
unrelated

14. Bring evidence of your work
 If you are a programmer, bring
your scripts, an artist, your
visuals and portfolio
 This shows proof of your skills in
the hiring-interview

15. How to Interview
Interviewing is Like Dating
Timing is Key
Employer’s Fears
Bring Out Your Best

16. Don’t bad-mouth previous
employers

17. Why did you leave your last job?
If you were fired
The employer is Say whatever explain it was an
afraid you don’t get positive things you abnormal occurrence
along well with possibly can without that you and your
people. lying. boss didn’t get along
well.

18. Tell me about yourself…
Honest, self-
Good employee in
Afraid they won’t ask complimentary: hard
the past, brief
the right questions. worker, did more than
history, interests, etc.
was expected…

19. What is your greatest weakness?
Hopes you will You aren’t Mention a
divulge any perfect but you weakness
character always work to then turn it into
flaws… improve… a positive.

21. How to Interview
Interviewing is Like Dating
Timing is Key
Employer’s Fears
Bring Out Your Best

22. Bring Out Your Best

23. Ask what you really
want to know
Ask when you can
expect to hear back

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25. Don’t Lose Hope, Keep Trying