First, understand that all interviewers are attempting to evaluate the following:
- How skilled you are and how you applied these skills on the job ?
- If what you've accomplished is comparable to what needs to be accomplished ?
- How you’d fit with the team, work well with the hiring manager, and fit with the company “culture”
- Your level of drive, initiative, and motivation.
- Your upside potential.
Talk in paragraphs, not sentences
The big idea is to talk for 2-3 minutes in response to any question. Short one or two sentence answers are deal-breakers. In these cases, the interviewer has to work too hard to pry the information out of the candidate, and since they don't know what information they need pry out, it will likely be wrong. So talk more than less, but no more than 2-3 minutes per answer, otherwise you're considered boring, ego-centric, and insensitive.
You should practice the multi-paragraph
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SAFW
Just Say A Few Words. To format your basic answers start by
making a general opening Statement, Amplify or clarify this opening with
a few sentences, then provide a Few examples to prove your opening
point. End your answer with a summary Wrap-up and some hooks to get the
interviewer to ask a logical follow-up question.
SMARTT
Examples. describe the Specific task; throw in
some Metrics to add color, scope, and scale; add Action verbs describing
what you Actually did; define the Result as a deliverable; put a
Time frame around the task, describing when it took place and how long it
took; describe the Team involved; and then describe the environment
including the pace, the resources available, the challenges involved,
and role your boss played.
Use STAR
This is an alternative approach
for interviewers asking behavioral questions. When they ask you to give
an example of when you used some behavior, skill, or competency,
they’ll follow up by asking about the Situation, Task, Action taken, and
the Result achieved. You can beat them to the punch by framing your
responses the STAR way.
End with a Hook
Don’t spill everything out
at once. You only have 2-3 minutes, so leave a few key details
unanswered. This will prompt the interviewer to follow up with some
logical questions. A forced hook is something like, “Is this type of
project relevant to what you need done?”
Remember the Big E for Example. If you forget all of this, don’t forget to give lots of examples of actual accomplishments
Interviewers really like it when they don’t have to work too hard to figure out if you’re any good. Well-constructe
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