Interview_Preparation面试准备.doc

Preparation Advance preparation will increase your confidence, help overcome interviewing inexperience, and enable you to sell yourself and your qualifications. Today’s employers are committing considerable time and resources to recruiting and interviewing. They need to quickly identify the knowledge, skills, and abilities candidates have to help them be successful on the job. As a candidate, your goal is to demonstrate how your knowledge and experience can benefit the employer. Your primary objective is to convince the interviewer that you are the most qualified candidate. You need to sell your experience, qualifications, and abilities. If you make your living in a field other than sales, you may feel that you dont have a sales personality. But consider this: all of us are selling all the time. Every day of your life you are selling your views and ideas to your family, friends, and business associates. Every time you persuade your colleagues to use your solution to a business problem you use your selling skills. All you need is a basic sales strategy that anyone can use: Find out what the prospect (the interviewer) really needs; then package your product (your experience, qualifications, ability) to meet those needs. This sales approach involves more than simply listing the virtues of your product (which you really do when you prepare your resume). It means that you must evaluate all of your past responsibilities and accomplishments in terms of the position to be filled. Just as an actor learns his or her lines and attends rehearsals before a performance, a candidate should prepare for his or her very important performance - the job interview. Though this may seem like common sense, interviewers are continually surprised by the lack of preparation on the part of most candidates. You can make yourself stand out from the rest by following a few simple tips. Review Your Resume Prepare a thorough resume (5 pages at most) showing your work experience chronol